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Your piece about Clock reminded me of this site -- https://literature-clock.jenevoldsen.com . For every minute of 24 hours, you can read a line from a work of literature that references that exact minute.

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How fascinating! Thanks so much for sharing Karen. I love discovering this Literature Clock!

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Beautiful! Thank you for this.

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Thanks for taking the time! 🌀

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You've curated this one with so much care. I love the spiral poem, I titled my head this way and that to read it, and then to feel the expansion swirling inside all of us. 🧡🌺

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Thank you so much Raju! ☺️ And I love that you can feel that “expansion swirling inside all of us” ~ so beautifully said ✨

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Thanks so much Sabrina. Love the time lapsed ocean view with waves and your musings on time and how we experience it or try to shape it through calendars . I have always been fascinated with them and studied the ancient Celtic Moon/Tree calendars. Are you familiar with this ?

<3 MM

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Thanks MM! Time is such a fascinating concept 🌀 I’m not familiar with the Celtic Moon/Tree calendars but I love lunar calendars and excited to research more about the Celtic way to measure time! 🌛thanks for sharing that insight!

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The Celtic calendars followed the seasons and the moon...it was a 13 month calendar..and there was almost mystical..yet practical and historical significance in each month's tree as well.

A writer named George Leonard wrote on the inner experience of life..which included the perception of time in his book, The Ultimate Athlete. It's a wonderful read; the athletes' experiences that you rarely read or hear recounted after a sporting event...the inner experience.

He also wrote a book called The Silent Pulse which is great and best read in stillness...I found.

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Thanks, Sabrina.

I might add that other works of musical Minimalism also play with time in interesting ways, such as Terry Riley’s In C (each musician proceeds independently, but must stay within three phrases from first to last), or a personal favorite of mine, Steve Reich’s Music for 18 Musicians (in which the number or repetitions are flexible, negotiated by the group, with changes announced by the vibraphone). Another important factor in the piece is the use of human breath, used in the clarinets and voices, which help structure and bring a pulse to the piece. The player plays the pulsing note for as long as they can hold it, while each chord is melodically deconstructed by the ensemble, along with augmentation of the notes held. All of which influences the actual length of the piece as well as the audience's perception of time.

If anyone is interested in reading more about ORGAN²/ ASLSP, I would recommend John Darnielle's "There are other forces at work: John Cage comes to Halberstadt," in Harper’s January 2016: https://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/there-are-other-forces-at-work/

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Thank you so much @acloserlisten - you are a wealth of musical knowledge! 🎼🙌

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Brava, this is beautiful Sabri!

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Thank you so much Z! ☺️

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I will sound like a broken record but I just love all this! so much fascinating insights and information. thanks for helping me reframe how I see things.

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I like the tune of this record 📀 so I don’t mind ;) thank you for your comment, I’m so glad to hear this is landing, across space & time 🌀

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bring back 10 hour days!

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I know, it’s time! The precursors to the 4 hour work week. I also can’t believe as a Frenchie that I didn’t previously know about this French calendar and revolution of time! Did you??

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Yes I remembered they did a short lived calendar changed renaming the months, but I never knew they tried to change hours & minutes too... so wild !

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