Chambers by Lucier Alvin; Simon Douglas;

Author:Lucier, Alvin; Simon, Douglas;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 1980-03-16T05:00:00+00:00

Where these things could come together.

Where these things could come together, yes.

And yet the piece is no more about reincarnation than, for example, Vespers is about echolocation. You’ve mentioned the “musical realm,” that point at which simple ideas suddenly start giving rise to their own ideas and their own meanings; reincarnation is the simple idea. What happens when there is more than one synthesist?

Then it’s like a divining rod with two prongs on it, a double-branched thing. One synthesist could be processing the vocal sounds in one way and the other in another way. I made the stipulation that they could be linked together so that they could cross and interweave with one another, but we’ve never done it like that.

I thought of it as an opera. You know, in an opera, there’s so much disguise and terrible mistakes are made when a person doesn’t realize it’s the other person. Sometimes the whole conflict of an opera is based on an error like that. I had the idea in my mind that if you imitate someone else, you want to partake of his or her identity, and this piece seeks an identity connection between at least two people. I also had it in mind that there’s a single source of life, the idea of the single cell splitting into two and then four and then eight, geometrically. This piece, however, would work back the other way. If you could do it infinitely, everyone would process that sound according to every memory they ever had, thereby going back . . .

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