The Way of Synchronicity

scored for B-flat clarinet  and piano

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duration 23 minutes 

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The Way of Synchronicity departs from a personal interpretation of Jungian synchronicity: the simultaneous presence of multiple realities and layers of meaning. What is presented in time as successive movements essentially exists side by side. The music unfolds linearly, yet continually suggests that everything we hear could also be happening at once.

In About Love and Loss, love and loss appear not as cause and effect, but as parallel states that mutually color one another. About Irony shifts the focus to the musical material itself. Here, musical clichés are magnified, almost caricatured. Irony does not arise as an external commentary; instead, the music seems to observe itself while it is sounding.

With Cosmic Creation, Consciousness Formation, a broader perspective opens up: creation and the formation of consciousness become audible as two layers of the same process. Dream Garden, Spirit Catcher unfolds as an inner landscape where dream and imagination overlap. In About Regret and Mercy, the personal returns in a more restrained form. Regret and mercy are not developed as a progression, but are present simultaneously — at times abrasive, at times reconciling.

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I. About Love and Loss 

II. About Irony 

III. Cosmic Creation, Consciousness Formation

IV. Dream Garden, Spirit Catcher 

V. About Regret

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The Way of Synchronicity is dedicated to Roeland Hendrikx. It was recorded in March 2024 by Sergei Redkin and Roeland Hendrikx at Concertgebouw Brugge.