140? This flock of nightengales is time.

Time flutters and fidgets an dhopes wit

h these bids.

On those occasions when a nightingale is caught, the cathcers delight in the mom
ent now frozen
They savor the precise placement of family and friends, the facial expre
ssions, the trapped happiness
over a prize or a birth or romance, the captured smell of cinnamon or wh
ite double violets.
The catchers delight in the moment so frozen but soon disocver that the
nightingale expires, its clear,
flutelike song diminishes to silence, the wrapped moment grows withered
and without life"
Peaceful summer day -- just enjoying life - joy, playfulness
"Suddenly a flock of birds darts overhead" --- flute of course, but a b
igger flourish
It's a chase
there's a sense of sillyness, absurdity -- grown men and women c
hasing birds like children -- woman hands helplessly up in the tree
The difference in the perception of time between people of various ages
Wood block, bongos, tin whistle, bird whistle,
marimba
dead stroking,
strike with stick
19 April 1905:
Time has three dimensions, like space
An object may participat ein three perpendicular futures -- each future
is real, and it's in the same world
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will o
ccur. (how can anyone be resposible)
25: 28 April 1905 - Time is visible in all places....Time paces forward with exq
uisite regularity, at precisely the same velocity in every corner of space.
People are extremely aware of the time.
83: People live just one day, either people s lives are sped up or the rotation of t
he earth is slow.

Constant reminder of diminishing time with the light.

When old age comes, whether in light or dark, a person discovers that he knows n
o one. There hasn t been time. Parents have passed away at midday or midnight.
Brothers and sisters have moved to distant cities,
to seize passing opportunities. Friends have changed with the changing angle of
the sun. He wonders whether anything exists outside of his mind.
Did that embrace from his mother really exist? Did that laughing rivalry with h
is school friend really exist?.............

29: Cause and effect are erratic

It is a world of impulse. It isa world of sincereity.
3 May 1905: somtimes cause preceedes effect, other times effect precede
s cause
Or maybe it's that cause lies in the past and effect in the future but
the past and future are intertwined.
The cosmos is irrational.
Artists are joyous: Unpredictability is the life of their paiting, thei

r music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without
explanation, retrospective.
Most people have learned how to live in the moment.
it IS A WORLD of impulse. It is a world of sincereity. It is a
world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given
has only one meaning,
each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
If you can simulate drop and bounce effect....the reverse of that....
Reversal on smaller level: the opening sequence presented backwards, or
bounce backwards
Reversal on larger scale: section 1 as cause section 2 as effect, revers
e

35? People and places get stuck in time (one town in the 15th century, one perso
n stuck after graduating high school)

In another house, a man sits alone at his table, laid out for two.
Ten years ago, he sat here across from his father, was unable to say tha
t he loved him,
searched through the years of his childhood for some moment of closeness
,
remembered the evenings that silent man sat alone with his book,
was unable to say that he loved him, was unable to say that he loved him
.
The table set with two places, two glasses, two forks, as on that last
night.
The man begins to eat, cannot eat, weeps uncontrollably. He never said
that he loved him.
Consider flute whistle tones (like a medieval instrument or something)
Consider
I. Prologue
Clock tower calls out six times and then stops.
Einstein slumps at his desk, at dawn --- kind of messy appearnce -- but
with his theory on time in hand
Tiny sounds from the city
Milk bottle clinks on a stone
Awnig is cranked in an shop
Cegetable cart moves slowly through a street -- bassoon key clic
ks
Man adn woman talk in hushed tones - whispering---air tones in f
lute
Light
Seeps through the room,
tops of the Alps start to glow from the sun
For the past several months, Einsten has dreamed many dreams about time
-- they've taken hold of his research,
worm him out, exhausted him so that he somtimes cannot tell whether he i
s awake or asleep.
"The young man shifts in his chair, waiting for the typist to come, and
softly hums from Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata.
Start in darkness, mysterious, soft, sparse scoring, MAKE USE OF SILENCE
Gradually add things,

there has to be LIGHT and SOUND

It has to be free
Slowly the glowing light becomes brighter and things are illuminated.
The sounds become more active
End with Moonlight sonata reference.
and Einsteni drifts into a dream
Using percussion as a way to smooth out entrances and exits of instrumen
ts
Pay attention to instrument groupings (like bassoon and flute, and devel
op those more)
Bassoon: large upward skips and slurs are quite easily performed even between ex
treme registers , some downward skips are very difficult
don't write pp for the lowest perfect fifth (Bb-F)
tremolos are not very idiomatic, if you do though, don't go larger than
P4
Flute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cGJ-Y1EviI (air sounds, inside flute an
d pitched)
Key clicks: faster progression if you go downward
tongue pizzes (most effective in the first octave)
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