"Can history exist without language? Time travel can, allowing one to slide up and down the Ondes Martenot ribbon of time without effort. But coming back to talk about it? Sharing the experience of having gone through something with others (something that changed you), anticipating having to go through some expected dread (that will change you), that takes more than words. It takes language to build past, present, and future.

This piece visits us from before that time.

These players come from a time when language was on the tip of humanity’s tongue, so to speak. So ready to blurt out wonderful significances since now held back, they can virtually taste it. But for now... a lot of trying, a lot of excuse me and after you and oh my I never, trying to line it up. Trying to make that connection. Not quite making it, but still able to revel in the shared attempt, one cadenza after the other, one more magic incantation, to maybe get it right this time."