"Alter der Wirklichkeit" - score (p.6)-->
Alter der Wirklichkeit
2024
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ensemble and live-electronics
"... his explanations were clear. Simply. But there was more. They were full of metaphors. He drew a few Feynman diagrams and I found them quite fascinating. They depicted the world of subatomic particles that he wanted to explain to me. The collisions. The weighted lanes. I understood that these equations were not just conjectures about a form whose presence was limited to the symbols on the paper, but that they were actually there, before my eyes. They were in the paper, in the ink, in me. They were in the universe. The fact that they were invisible in no way spoke against them or their existence. Against her age. That was the age of reality. Which in turn had always been invisible..."
(Quote from: Cormac McCarty, Stella Maris, Rowohlt 2022)