Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library

With its upward and downward movements across the keyboard, this minimalism-influenced work reflects metaphorically the journey to the other side of infinity. In mathematics, when a variable diverges to positive infinity it sometimes returns from the opposite side, moving upward from negative infinity. (This is seen, for example, in trigonometry, in the graph of the tangent function.) In human terms, a traveler who does not understand that the world is round would be surprised, upon circumnavigating the globe, to arrive back home. That this could happen in space as well is hard for our minds to grasp. This return from infinity is also seen in ideology—zealots sometimes switch from one extreme to another rather than traveling through the center.  9/22/20 version 

This music score was submitted for Resonate 2024: An Open Access Call for Scores by the UCLA Music Library.