In time we live

In time we love

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

. . .

The poetic fragment and music 'In Time' explores how I live with a past I inherit, a present that keeps changing, and a future I cannot yet see.

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 memory: what I hear and experience in my now is always shaped by what has been.

Music only exists in time, but it can also make time feel different: stretched, suspended, or opened. Long, loud, lines of sound sweep across a wider scale that makes my feelings more apparent and forceful. Love, sorrow, hope, and wonder do not move beat by beat; they swell, fade, and return, and as they do so they change the scale of my inner time.

Love widens a moment. Hope brings the future into the present. Dream loosens what seems fixed.

At times the music feels like an anthem: open, unrestrained, and free. As complex rhythms return to the foreground a calmer balance returns. Music is physical in its breath, pulse, and tension. In dance time turns into a shared encounter.

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

ORIGINATOR · Mike de Sousa

ART FORM · Contemporary Classical Music and Art.

COMPLETED · 2026

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