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III. Incertum from "Night Mass" - Sebastian Currier
Northwestern University Chorale
Dr. Donald Nally, Conductor

Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra
Victor Yampolsky, Conductor

December 8, 2013
Pick-Staiger Concert Hall at Northwestern University


Where am I?

I do not know where, but everything is moving—
Galaxies rushing away from each other like blast fragments,
Every atom in my body spinning,
Ten trillion cells carrying out electrochemical reactions,
All particles everywhere always in flux,
What stillness there is never quite still,
What emptiness there is never quite empty,
The great void still radiant from the first explosion—

Where am I?

I do not know where, but there are names we use
As if they were explanations—
Planet, star, galaxy, universe,
Strong force, weak force, electromagnetic force, gravity;
We say we are "here," that we evolved among
This ongoing oscillation of points of mass,
These fields of energy; that we are warm because
Light moves without mass over soundless distances.

Where are we?

Always amid the signal from the fundamental explosion
Which surrounds us everywhere
And must come from the singularity at the beginning
Wherewhen all potential was one in the total atom.
I do not know where we are,
Only the names we give,
But it surrounds us and we are made of it.
Remember the mystery:

Text: Thomas Bolt