Commentary on Opus 3164 of S Brian Adam's How Do How Do The Lovely Thing




Opus  3164 opens up into sound, and there it remains.  There is no music, no melody, but there is a familiarity.   I feel the underscoring of a mind traveling through its own awareness as existent conscience.  Sounds remain constant.  It is an atmosphere of an environment.  Life exists within this state of sonority. 

It is deep, dark and without a trace of sentiment.  It is heavy in some of the notes, yet light in others. 

It emulates space.  It continues its trajectory through space.  It originates from within itself.  It is fearlessly moving into the realm of pure mysterium. 

Imagination is the greatest gift, as it is the greatest inspiration in creation.

Etymology  of imagine  (v.) mid-14c., "to form a mental image of," from Old French imaginer "sculpt, carve, paint; decorate, embellish" (13c.), from Latin imaginari "to form a mental picture to oneself, imagine"  (from the Online Etymology Dictionary © 2001-2013 Douglas Harper)

It is the ability to sculpt, carve, paint sound.  That is what the Opuses of S Brian Adam are ultimately.  They are sculptures, carvings in sound.  They are the structured formings of sonority. 

Opus 3164 is many things simultaneously.  It is steep, it is colorful, it is spirited, it is constantly emanating from a prime source of inspired existence.

Opus 3164 is excited and exciting.  It moves from the lightest spectrum of the scale to the lowest.   It begins as the sky.  The floating in the air as inspiration.  Then, it changes its agenda to one that echoes of the deepest bowels of the earth.   

It invokes the extremes of our living existence.  Yet it describes the finite with a nod, an affirmation, to the infinite.  Opus 3164  is describing the sky and the earth, but it is looking beyond both, transcending the immediate and embracing the full potential of the ineffable, inexplicable nothing.  Nothing is not the absence of all we know.  Nothing is, in actuality, the only constant in the Universe.  It is the truest sense of what lies beyond our visible existence.  it is the supra-reality.  

Opus 3164 is the anthem of nothingness.  It is the celebration of what is the pervasive, inevitable structuring of that which can only be inferred.  We are listening to the whisperings of an inference of a memory that we all have of pre-birth; it is in the language of the pre- beginning.  It is the ethereal -- sculpted into notes.  It is the miracle sound, declaration of the invisible....

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