Michael Torke (22 settembre 1961): Time per 22 musicisti (2021). Michael Torke Orchestra diretta dall’autore.

1. Span 1
2. Span 2 [8:32]
3. Span 3 [17:33]
4. Span 4 [27:42]
5. Span 5 [35:50]

A span of time: as short as a nine-minute movement; or as long as a life.
The span of a day, a week, a month, or a year has imprinted in it recurrence and repetition. Recurrence in large scale mirrors recurrence in detail. Repetition can reset an unsettled heart, can calm the nerves, can even adjust brain chemistry. Rhythm itself divides up time and breathes life into time. Time slips away as we age, but music pins us down—it offers a kind of security against the ravages of time.
Time is the one thing money can’t buy. The rich and the poor have equal access to time—time is free but it’s priceless. You can’t own it but you can use it. You can’t save it but you can spend it.
Buddha says: « Life is swept along, next-to-nothing its span. For one swept to old age no shelters exist. Perceiving this danger in death, one should drop the world’s bait and look for peace » (Michael Torke).