Born
1974

Instrumentation
Four violin, two viola, two cello, two bass

Duration
10 minutes

World Premiere
May 18, 2017 at St. Paul's Chapel of Trinity Wall Street, Novus NY.

Program Notes
Written by composer

This work is based on assertions found in Masaru Emoto's book "The Hidden Messages in Water", which can be interpreted as a more spiritual extension of String Theory/Quantum mechanics.

String Theory is about how objects in our universe are composed of vibrating filaments (strings) and membranes (branes) of energy, and the author asserts that the best vehicle to capture and transport these vibrations is water.

His way of proving this was to take pictures of the crystals formed in frozen water after being exposed to different kinds of music and concentrated thoughts directed towards the water.  The results were a visual representation of the manifestation of variations of positive and negative emotions.

Through Which We Flow embodies different sonic manifestations of joy, hate, and prayer - using the resonances specifically created by string instruments and the unique acoustic of the church itself to remind us of the power of our own thoughts and actions.