A Walk with Anaximander
Andrew Cole
About this work:
Anaximander of Miletos was a sixth century B.C. philosopher. The Anaximander fragment is the oldest surviving
Western Philosophy text. It can roughly be translated as, “That which is, Being, is indeterminate. From the indeterminate,
things, emerge and regress according to necessity. These things or beings are judged in relation to each other according to
time.” Mr. Cole was introduced to this fragment and Martin Heidegger’s elegant analysis of the fragment in Basic Concepts on
the island of Poros in Greece. While studying the fragment, Mr. Cole took many walks through the countryside and along the
coastline. A walk with Anaximader is a musical reaction to both the beauty of the Greek islands and the philosophical ideas he
examined on those walks.
Version: 1
Year composed: 2005
Duration: 00:11:14
Ensemble type: Orchestra:Standard Orchestra
Instrumentation:
Instrumentation notes: 3232, 4331, pno, 3perc, strings