Point Me at the Sky
You may find your home in smaller spaces,
Where time is Flat,
and the air is Thick,
In traffic, and malls, lecture classrooms,
Time is measured in cups of coffee and weekend updates:
A simple walk around the sun.
But though I’ve no fault with life in rote
Simplicity,
Or clandestine surrender to 3 Dimensionality—
I’ll have to pass on cars,
and take a comet through the stars.
Let the Pleides be my heart’s repose
I’ll gladly lay down in the silence of space
Than endure false words of faith.
In the endless stretch of the cosmic plain,
There are no points of law or grace
To hinder fantasy as it goes.
Which way’s the shortest home for me?
A billion years from earth to see
Where nothing’s dull as toast and tea
On every shore of Relativity,
The smallest point, a singularity
Chaos rent from density
A point of matter infinity
Six billion leaps from causa sui
On the endless run to eternity.
From Darsan (2008)
1. Singularity Sutra (MP3) - 5:04
Notes: I wrote this song thinking about the "big bang" and the ensuing period of rapid inflation when the universe expanded to 1078 times its initial size...in 10-3 of one second.
2. Song of Andromeda (MP3) - 6:55
Notes: The space between galaxies if often vast and desolate. But thinking about the closest to our own, I wrote this song in celebration of the beauty of galaxies.
3. Vespers on the Solar Winds (MP3) - 5:56
Notes: A little bit of "cantata" for the kinetic dance of protons and electrons in the sun's corona.
From Quantum Enigma (2010)
1. Phase Transference Failure (MP3) - 6:21
Notes: In the story told on the CD, this is the point at which the now-deceased protaganist experiences a (highly fictitious) journey below the Planck length.
2. Liminal (MP3) - 3:15
Notes: A love song. What else needs to be said?
3. Background Indepedent (MP3) - 3:30
Notes: The story here's rather funny. I took my initial inspiration for this composition from the 1980's sci-fi cult classic "Night of the Creeps."
Covers and Random Bits
1. Nobody Home (Pink Floyd, MP3) - 3:09
From "The Wall" - an instrumental version.
2. Feel So Low (Porcupine Tree, MP3) - 4:44
From "Lightbulb Sun," a melancholy ballad.
Philosophy, Theology, and Science
