Year composed: 2023
Duration: 7′
Instrumentation: solo piano
Commissioned by Jared Redmond and premiered at Hertz Hall, Berkeley 2/14/24
Notes:
The term “implicate order” was coined by physicist David Bohm in the early 1980s to describe underlying and unifying forces in the universe. Bohm saw subatomic particles not as essential building blocks but as elements derived from a living whole. His notion of implicate order emphasized the primacy of wholeness and a unifying structure that enfolded individual objects; in his conception of order primacy is given to the undivided whole, and the implicate order inherent within the whole rather than its parts.
Generalizing from this, he also saw intra-connection everywhere and spoke often and eloquently against the human cultural idea that we are discrete individuals atop a separate environment. My piece draws from the idea that everything is interconnected, enfolded, and made from the same materials no matter how different the surface aspects appear to be. It is gratefully dedicated to pianist and composer Jared Redmond.
–Cindy Cox