"... Now, time is an obsession. Google has registered a surge of searches for the day of the week. Individual days creep along, yet April sped by and May evaporated in a flash. And nature moves ahead on schedule, indifferent to human confusion. ... Investigations into the perception of time have long been the work of composers, too. Since the end of the 19th century, perhaps bridling against the nascent industrial age, composers have played with different ways of creating music resistant to man-made mechanics of time keeping. ... Here are seven pieces that speak to the Covid-19 time warp: a playlist of music for the unmoored. ..."
NY Times (Video/Audio)
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