Codex Legere

Written in 2025 for orchestra
(40 minutes)
Written for Dog Star Festival 21

Extended notes coLouise Glück in American Originality on non sequitur and nonsense

[paraphrased by the composer]

Non sequitur is harder than the unfinished: more various/lively

1) non-relation, or 2) “more dramatic or psychological use makes it a code and the poem a diagram of systematic evasion.

Delight in mobility

Contingent for easy emotions

“the eternal has ceased to exit except as an analog to human memory”

A modest replica of life

The case for nonsense is not the same as the case against meaning Animated not by an objection of meaning, but by a refusal of the restriction of meaning

For tools of reason, it substitutes the resources of magic; against the rigidity of the absolute, it suggests the hypnotic power of the evanescent; for narrative, it offers collage or prism; for conclusion, hypothesis