ALL THAT IS INCLUDING ME (playing score)

The title is taken from an improvised poem by Buckminster Fuller:Environment to each must be 'All that is including me.'Universe in turn must be 'All that is including me.'The incentive to write this piece came from reading the book Return from space by the Japanese journalist Takashi Tachibana. It is a collection of descriptions by some twenty American cosmonauts of their sojourn in space in the sixties. I was impressed by the spiritual power of the related experiences, and especially by the religious feeling. At the same time, the scientific literature on outer space also opened up a number perspectives: the idea of 'complex rotation systems' for instance (such as with the Sun, Moon and Earth) which create specific variation processes, light/shadow effects, and thus make for cyclical time within which expansion and contraction alternate.The musical structure and function of the gagaku resembles such a complex rotation system. The key qualities here are:'' repetition'' binary time f

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