Description
Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nxv6YXlFz9k
Performed by invoke string quartet on 16 February 2019 at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier.
Performed by invoke string quartet on 16 February 2019 at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxZROthxPQA
Performed by Julius String Quartet on 5 October 2020.
Performed by Julius String Quartet on 5 October 2020.
Duration
12 min.
Instrumentation
string quartet
Movements
If half this ended, and half did not...Invisible cities, mirages and dreams
Program Notes
The Corrosive Effects of Desire is a two-movement work for string quartet. Conceptually, it is inspired by two quotes from the Buddhist philosopher Nāgārjuna (c. 150 – c. 250 CE) that explore the nature of desire.
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First Movement
If half this ended, and half did not,
I would both end and never end,
Leaving half the grasper,
Dead and half undead,
Half the grasped destroyed,
Half undestroyed.
Second Movement
I may believe that objects of the senses,
Are the foundations of desire,
But they are like invisible cities,
Mirages and dreams.
[from the translation by Stephen Batchelor, Verses from the Center, Riverhead Books, New York (2000), used with permission]
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