Heart Sutra+ Composing

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Mahayana Motet (for solo keyboard) (2012) - This work will be premiered May 9, 2013 in New York City with Anti-Social Music, an amazing crew! I'm preparing the final notes on this piece - writings that have influenced the writing of this work. Very excited to hear this work, a world premiere!

"We Have One Mind (The One We Share). Changing Things Radically, Then, Is Simple." - John Cage Book of Days.

  Three Thoughts from Master T'an Hsu Commentary on Heart Sutra:

"The name Avalokitesvara comes from the ground causes of Bodhisattva's Dharma practice while on an island, perceiving the sounds of the world, rooted in time as they are, rising and falling with the ebb and flow of the ocean. From the sound of the tide rising and falling, the Bodhisattva attained enlightenment, perfectly and completely comprehending the Dharma of birth and non-birth."

"There are two kinds of hearing: one comes and goes in response to stimulation, the other functions independently of it.  Thus we can safely say that although sounds have birth and death, the hearing capacity does not. It actually never vanishes.  All existence, including dharmas, is impermanent and therefore subject to birth and death - just like magic, like bubbles or like shadows. The nature of hearing, on the other hand, can never be destroyed."

"Yet the hearing is timeless, hence beyond birth and death."


And this music of Palestrina is highly influential:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mdmco61Htk

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