I owe a huge thanks to the Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble with conductor Martina Batic for their beautiful premier of my choir piece “The Order of Time”. It has been a pleasure and honour to work with you.
The picture is from the premier during the Pulsar Festival at the Royal Danish Academy of Music. I’m looking forward to hearing the piece performed again in Trinitatis Church 15th March 2024, where the concert will also be recorded by Danish Radio P2 for broadcasting.
The piece is based on one of the only surviving quotes from Greek philosopher Anaximander (610-546 BCE). He was known for developing the idea of cosmology and believed that everything derives from the apeiron – the infinite. He also believed that the world originated through an eternal motion that would split all matters into opposites (e.g. hot/cold), and that eventually this world would be destroyed and return to the infinite, in order to let other worlds emerge.
In this piece, a musical rendition of the text is sought after, where both the duality and interplay between the voice groups are examined as they seamlessly blend, part, and transform one into another.
Things are transformed
one into another
according to necessity
and render justice
to one another
according to
the order of time
