CLOCKS AND CRICKETS (2019)
[10] pp : all ill.; full colour cover; 20x29cm.,
digital print, light translucent paper, Peregrina silver paper.
Signed and numbered edition of 25. 

An evening meditation with the sounds of clocks and crickets: clear and symmetrical time-keeping beats and unpredictable polyrhythmic sounds, like Ligeti’s clocks and clouds, never clearly delineated, but dissolving and diffusing into each other across layers of semi-translucent papers.

“The title of Ligeti’s Clocks and Clouds refers to an essay by the Anglo-Austrian philosopher Karl Raimund Popper, On Clocks and Clouds. Popper’s essay describes two different kinds of processes that occur in nature, one that can be measured exactly (“clocks”) and the other, made up of indefinite occurrences that can only be described in a statistical approximation (“clouds”). According to Ligeti: “I liked Popper’s title and it awakened in me musical associations of a kind of form in which rhythmically and harmonically precise shapes gradually change into diffuse sound textures and vice-versa, whereby then, the musical happening consists primarily of processes of the dissolution of the ‘clocks’ to ‘clouds’ and the condensation and materialisation of ‘clouds’ to ‘clocks’.”
– from Steve Lacoste’s article on the LA Philharmonic performance
(https://www.laphil.com/musicdb/pieces/1313/clocks-and-clouds)