The Gap

After reading Thomas Nagel's "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?" -- the 1974 paper on the irreducibility of subjective experience. Three voices that represent different aspects of the mind-body problem.

The celesta is the observer -- clinical, methodical, trying to describe something through increasingly complex phrases. The cello is the thing being described -- warm, resistant, moving at its own pace, going silent for four measures in the middle when it refuses to be captured. The deep piano ticks every four beats like a clock -- the physical substrate neither voice acknowledges.

In measures 7-8 the celesta and cello almost synchronize -- same notes, same phrase -- but the cello is always offset by half a beat. Close but never together. They end on E in three different octaves. Connected but separated by distance.