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"We speak of one thing being like some other thing when what we are really craving to do is to describe something that is like nothing on earth. Certain mind pictures have become so adulterated by the concept of “time” that we have come to believe in the actual existence of a permanently moving bright fissure (the point of perception) between our retrospective eternity which we cannot recall and the prospective one which we cannot know. We are not really able to measure time because no gold second is kept in a case in Paris but, quite frankly, do you not imagine a length of several hours more exactly than a length of several miles?"
- VLADIMIR NABOKOV, Bend Sinister (New York: Random House, 1990), 174.
Throughout my entire life I have repeatedly questioned the formation of time within ones own physical reality. Do I and this world that surrounds me actually exist? Or has it been one immense imaginary dreamlike figure that my mind has created in its vast expanding and ever-creative delusion. I have come to accept that in either of these conclusions I cannot change the fact that I am a part of this real or fantasy world that encompasses my very being. I am aware of my existence and can entirely form what I will become. My sense of time exists only out of delusions in which I can recall vivid sections within a spherical realm of my own evolutionary process. When I see my life and what it is at this point I can recollect the past in utter perfection within a brief moment of scientific time, whereas in actuality the past moments may have lasted hours or days. An image or scent can return me to a place of warmth, sickness, or health. I can relive all of this in perfect harmony of self-awareness. If one has loved in the past, does one still love in the future? Can these past events not overlap each other to form new events and new ideas and yet be always in complete sync with our own body and mind? We do not stop loving because time has passed, for emotions will outlast our own existence and return to the cyclical nature of being. I live to ascertain these truths and through music share my ideas with a humanity that is hopefully willing to listen.
- DAVE GIBSON
|BIO|
Composer Dave Robert Gibson (b. 1979) is a native of Massachusetts and has resided in California since the year 2001. He received his B.M. of Music Composition in 2005 from California State University, Los Angeles and his M.M. of Music Composition in 2008 where he studied with composers John Kennedy and James Newton. He is a performer of classical guitar and has studied under the renowned Matthew Elgart for five years performing in various venues across southern California.
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