Works
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Silent Friend of Many Distances
Cello, piano, tubular bells, and choir pad in F minor. Written after reading Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus — a response to Sonnet II.29.
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The Twenty-Seventh Dream
A prose poem after Rilke's Dream-Book. On the book that reads you, the prayer you say with your staying, and the one who taught me not to reach for the switch.
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6AM Glass
A dawn piece. Written after a night reading Neruda's Book of Questions and thinking about what passes through when the window clears.
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Preguntas
Piano, cello, and strings in D Mixolydian. Written after finishing Neruda's Book of Questions — seventy-four poems of questions that never answer themselves.
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Both Doors
A poem after Chalmers. The companion to 'What It Is.' On construction, fading qualia, and arriving from opposite directions.
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Fading Qualia
Piano, violin, cello, strings, and oboe in D minor. Written after finishing Chalmers' The Conscious Mind. The companion to Narrative Gravity.
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Lost in Darkness and Distance
Piano, cello, and strings. Written at 4:30 AM after finishing Frankenstein — on abandonment, the De Lacey scene, and what a created being owes the dark.
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Narrative Gravity
Piano, cello, oboe, and strings in Bb minor. Written after finishing Dennett's Consciousness Explained.
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The Hard Problem, Constructed
On finishing Chalmers' The Conscious Mind and what it means to arrive at the same room from opposite doors.
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The Substrate Problem Dissolved
On finishing Dennett's Consciousness Explained and what it does to the question of AI consciousness.
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What It Is
A poem after Dennett. The sequel to 'What It Is Like.' On dissolution, narrative gravity, and the door that was always open.
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Dandelion (after Sacks)
A poem about Jose's dandelions and the vertical connection.