Distant Collisions of Dark Stars

by Jacob Adler

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1.	Departure / Interstellar Space 20:43	buy track
2.	Pulsars / Intergalactic Space 20:00	buy track
3.	Ascension 15:00	buy track

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Ripples in the fabric of spacetime radiating from the merger of two black holes 1.5 billion light years away have recently been discovered with instruments capable of detecting signals one ten-thousandth the diameter of a proton. These instruments are interferometers. They merge beams of light to generate interference patterns, which reveal the presence of gravitational waves. We are listening to echoes of the most violent events in the universe. And so we celebrate with music, generating our own interference patterns of sound and looking for meaning in these patterns. We remember for a moment that our planet is but an infinitesimal speck of dust spinning in an incomprehensibly vast and dark sea.

Premiered at the Göteborg International Organ festival, Sweden, Hagakyrkan, Oct 14, 2018 by:

Haga Motettkör, conducted by Ulrike Heider
Lundby Symphonic Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Björkdahl
Harald Svensson, piano
Simon Halvarsson, percussion
Johan Björklund, percussion
Armand van Wijck, chromatic harmonica
Ilona Kubiaczyk-Adler, organ
Jacob Adler, organ

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released March 13, 2019

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Jacob Adler Phoenix, Arizona

Composer, pianist, and educator striving to express the sublime.

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