kairos ~ time outside of time
kairos ~ time outside of time
2008 ~ for violin, harpsichord and real-time computer processing
commissioned by the McKim Fund in the Library of Congress, 2007
Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future,
And time future contained in time past.
If all time is eternally present
All time is unredeemable.
What might have been is an abstraction
Remaining a perpetual possibility
Only in a world of speculation.
What might have been and what has been
Point to one end, which is always present.
t. s. eliot
kairos ~ time outside of time was commissioned by the McKim Fund of the Library of Congress in 2007. kairos premiered by Lina Bahn, violin and Lura Johnson, harpsichord on December 11, 2008 at the Library of Congress Coolidge Auditorium in celebration of Elliott Carters’ 100th birthday.
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