Rain Shadow

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Violin, Viola, Violoncello, Piano — For many years I have found the British artist Andy Goldsworthy a real inspiration. His ability to see beauty lurking beneath the surface in unlikely places, and to expose it with heart-breaking clarity; the humility of his craftsman’s approach to art; and his willingness to make transient pieces that will disappear in a few minutes, hours, or days — these are for me daily reminders of how art can transform experience, and of how an artist of integrity and vision ought to behave.I am aware that there is an irony in fixing Goldsworthy’s often impermanent creations in permanent form, as he does himself by photographing them and exhibiting and publishing the images. Even stranger is my attempt to fix some of my own impressions of his work in permanent musical form — a much more violent “translation,” out of the visual realm into abstract sound patterns. But so powerful has been his impact on me that I feel compelled to work through that impact in the only way I know how.