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Sameness of the Canyon

by Andrew DiRemiggio Stoltz

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*Originally composed for and inspired by The Colour Inside, by James Turrell at the University of Texas at Austin.

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The title Sameness of the Canyon, is an excerpt from the book “The Man Who Walked Through Time” by Colin Fletcher. As many others have before me, I bought the book when I visited the Grand Canyon gift shop (I also bought a great hat there). When I read that passage, it seemed to articulate so many of the moments and observations I have experienced on my many outdoor adventures in spectacular places. While I was reading the book - many years ago now - I marked the passage and promptly forgot about it until I recently (and serendipitously) stumbled upon a reference to it in one of my many notebooks! It immediately got me thinking about the SkySpace installation and its light sequence. The twice-per-day devotion to the rising and falling of the sun against an always-changing sky seemed like a perfect analogue to the subtle yet ever-shifting geography and light of the deserts and canyons of the Southwest.

“And as I sat looking out over the huge and mysterious blue-black space it occurred to me that the pioneers who crossed the American prairies in their covered wagons must have felt, many days out from sight of mountains, the power of this ceaseless rhythm. For them the understanding would have been generated by the monotony of the plains. For me it had something to do with the colossal sameness of the Canyon; but that was a sameness not of monotony but of endlessly repeated yet endlessly varied pattern. A prodigal repetition of terrace mounting on terrace mounting on terrace, of canyon after canyon after canyon after canyon. All of them, one succeeding the other, almost unknown to man, just existing, existing, existing, existing. There seemed at first no hope of a beginning, no hint of an end. But I knew now, more certainly and more easily, that the regularity and the existence were not really timeless. I knew they were echoing reminders of a time, not so very long ago, before the coming of the noisy animal, when the earth was a quiet place.”

There are three sections: Silence, Water and Hope (drawn from an excerpt from Pablo Neruda’s poem From The Heights of Macchu Picchu which is referenced in the opening of Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire).

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released June 1, 2018
Violins (Sean Riley, Nick Montopoli, Ting Davidson)

*Recorded, mixed and mastered by Andrew Stoltz

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Andrew DiRemiggio Stoltz Austin, Texas

Andrew DiRemiggio Stoltz is an Austin, Texas-based composer, performer and recording engineer. Utilizing traditional and non-traditional instruments, composition and improvisation, his work celebrates the subtle, meditative and quiet moments.

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