Listening attentively to 6 different interpretations of Schubert’s Quintet for 2 cellos, offered by the Sunday morning France Musique program of this last August week-end of 2023 ‘La Tribune des Critiques de Disques’. My insistence on the date because I wonder whether, in a year from now, I will be around for an other contemplative listening! It is how intensely interiorizing and interiorized this music is. It is Schubert looking forward and perceiving his own destiny. We know, he won’t be around in a year. He’d better do well with this piece to pass on his message of intense melancholy, between vision and despair – and his expression of how art injects the intensity of hope into eternity: there is life after death. It is music! This is Art!

Now, I go to my studio to make sure that art will be well served by my attempt at making sense of the incoherence of the unexpected, in the unknown! Because this is really where we are in this first quarter of this 21st century. We are past post-Heraclitus! Are we so certain that nothing is sure but change? Not really. If we do not succeed in negotiating the sharp 1.5º C turn, nothing will be sure but doom! In any case, either way, in either case, we will get busy, feaverishly tracing new projection curves, fully contradicting the factual uncertainty of the future. PS: non of this is supposed to make any sense, of course.