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The Construction of Time

by Vitor Joaquim

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Beginning 08:40
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Stem 02:54
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Middle 07:35
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End 02:30
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No End 22:29
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about

This 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.

“Our own perception of what time is, is emotion (…) The emotion of time is not the fog that makes hard for us to understand time but it is precisely what time is for ourselves”
- Carlo Rovelli, “Carlo Rovelli: The nature of time”, New Scientist

The Construction of Time - Reviews: vitorjoaquim.pt/vj.reviews_13_THE_CONSTRUCTION_OF_TIME.htm

credits

released October 30, 2020

All tracks written, played, produced and mastered by Vitor Joaquim at Xara, during 2019/20.
Bonus track: Memory and Expectation, based on trumpet samples recorded at Lisboa Soa Festival, September 25, 2020.

Vitor Joaquim: trumpet sampling & processing, voice, granular synth, piano, keyboards, electronics, hiss, humming, crackling
João Silva*: Trumpet

Includes: excerpt from an unknown Bororo song (1, 5), random radio broadcasts and tv sounds captured during the invasions of Iraq (August 1990 – February 1991, March 2003 - December 2011)

Cover design by Raul Reis www.no-frame-creativestudio.com
Cover image: The Tower of Babel (Vienna) from 1563 by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (Wikimedia Commons)

Reviews on: www.vitorjoaquim.pt/vj.discography.htm

(C) (P) Vitor Joaquim (SPA) 2020
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Vitor Joaquim Setubal, Portugal

Electronic experimentalist, sound and visual artist. He started performing improvised music and get involved in experimental art by the mid 80's.
Since then, he has created extensively for dance, theater, video, installations and cross media platforms. He is graduated in sound and film directing and has a phd in computer music.
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