No music without time
Try if you can to put into words what ‘time’ is. It is remarkably difficult. In one way or another, time seems to escape accurate definition. Which is strange since time gives the impression of being the most normal thing in the world. What’s more: we often feel that time is determining our lives. We can fight it or be dissatisfied with it, but when our time is up, it all comes to an end.
Time also plays an important role in music, in contrast to the static arts such as architecture or painting. There is no music without time. But here too there is the difference between what time is as a constant presence and how it is perceived by the listener. A confrontation between chronos and kairos.