In time we live

In time we love

In time our life becomes the dream and hope that all is made of

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The poetic fragment and music above explores how I not only live with a past I inherit, a present that keeps changing, and a future I cannot yet see. I journey with others who experience the same.

A steady, fast, rhythmical pulse runs through the piece as one moment follows another. Echoes blur the line so that as soon as a moment arrives, it is coloured by another, by memory: what I hear and experience in my now is always shaped by what has come before.

Music only exists in time, but it also makes time feel different: shortened, stretched, suspended.

Long, loud, high arcs of sounds in this piece tell of a wider scale that show my feelings. Love, sorrow, hope, and wonder do not move as identical beats; they swell, fade, and return, and as they do so they change the scale of my inner time that I know as life. Love widens a moment. Hope brings the future into the present. Dream loosens what seems fixed.

By the second act this music feels like an anthem: open, unrestrained, and free. I am driven to move, I dance. 

'In Time' offers a common ground of pulse, echo, and returning shape that encourages me to become more fully present with another. The sharing of time (music), in time, makes this possible, even if only from afar.

ORIGINATOR · Mike de Sousa

ART FORM · Contemporary Music, a Poetic Fragment, and Art.

COMPLETED · 2026

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