portals II (everywhere and everything right now) (2022)

for four or more instruments

Commissioned by Freesound Ensemble with support from the Canada Arts Council. Creation of the score supported by the Ontario Arts Council.

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portals II (everywhere and everything right now) is the second piece in a series of graphic scores entitled portals. The graphic score created for portals II (everywhere and everything right now) explores the aesthetic of noise and experiments with the concept of quantum superposition. The graphic score contains many discrete “sound universes” that are represented through various types of visual noise. The “sound universes” embody the idea of quantum superposition which is a “feature of a quantum system whereby it exists in several separate quantum states at the same time” which extends to the Multiverse theory of quantum mechanics which holds that there are many worlds which exist in parallel at the same space and time as our own but are decoherent from one another.

The concept of portals, quantum superposition, and the Multiverse theory is evident in our current post digital, post pandemic world where many of us appear in online meetings on a computer screen while remaining in our physical bodies elsewhere. People interacting simultaneously together on screen online and in physical spaces alone in-person has made the paradoxes and mind-bending reality of quantum superposition more real than ever before.