Vítor Joaquim‘s, “The Construction Of Time“, album follows on from the previous works Nothingness (2019), “Impermanence” (2018), “Filament” (2011) and “Flow” (2006) albums that focus on the questions of time, flow, interiority and breadth of perception that we create from the world in which each of us lives.
Since time is one of those perceptions, subjectively and intimately dependent on our state of mind, life experience, knowledge, etc. it ends up being relativized in different ways by each one of us, according to the moment we live. If we are happy, we feel that time flies, if we live unpleasant moments, time seems to never end. What are these differences in perception if not to the construction of the time we make within each of us?
And when we think about the Universe, in its extension and depth, what capacity do we have to assimilate time as a space-time correlation? Will we ever be able to really understand what 10 light years means and what happens with time in us across that travel?
From perception to perception, we feel the impermanence and relativity of our lives, while we rely on vague certainties collected from the remains of the day “l’ecume des jours” (Boris Vian) and some scientific certainties that we may anticipate can also be temporary. Knowing our finitude, each one in their own way, we deal with the paradox of our entire existence having to fit into a meaning of which we do not know the name. In the meantime, while experiencing the elasticity of the path, each one of us does his own emotional construction of time.
As Carlo Rovelli reveals on his book The Order of Time, “time for us is memory and expectation”.
Just like music is.
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