In one aspect our digital age can be compared to that distant time of my favourite Early Greek philosophers (one of whom I celebrated in my dance opera Empedocles). In those days ideas were transmitted by speeches and discussions, like today. However, for the future, these ideas were set down in rolled parchments (of course publishers didn’t exist at that time), which is probably why only fragments from this wonderful early philosophy have survived. Now we have instant communication and continuous information transferral. And paradoxically this amazing technology often results in fragmentation, hence this extract, which is the start of my music/film Machines, the first movement of Diversions for orchestra and moving/still images:
Machines (Start)
Machines (Start)