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JULIEN BROCAL AND CAROLINE GOULDING
which reaches back to Gregorian chant, to the earliest modes of sound, which is now at the forefront of musical philoso- phy: Aaron Copland, Stefan Wolpe, Arvo Pärt, John Luther Adams are a few of the voices for whom music has become an expression of the underlying forces which structure the universe with the stillness of primordial rhythms.
Caroline is a violinist and a prodigy, playing on stages since she was 13. Her first recording was released when she was 16. Having won the Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Young Concert Artists International Auditions, having played in Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Louvre, Zurich’s Tonhalle, Beijing’s Forbidden City Concert Hall, Caroline has moved beyond the concept of playing into the realms of channeling everything she has absorbed from life into every note, of bringing the structure of the universe into the shape of the music, of surrendering to the wash
of tides, to the solar waves, to the energy that holds space together with its harmonies, and letting all of it infuse her playing simultaneously. Like the great writers, she throws the kitchen sink into the mix. Rather than narrowing her disci- pline down to the notes, she accepts everything in her mind
as an influence on the narrative. As she has said:
When you’re surrendering, you’re letting go of that narrative you’ve told yourself a million times over and over again. It could still be there in the back- ground—it’s not like you get to a point and it’s
like "Oh, it’s not there anymore, it’s all perfect." You’re surrendering that illusion of who you’ve been or who you are for the reality of the moment, which is the only reality that we ever have. You’re becom- ing embodied. You’re becoming in harmony with everything there is....
There is no boundary. You’re transcending the illu- sion of boundaries because you realize there are no boundaries at that level and there never have been.
Caroline’s vocabulary is a spiritual one, encompassing Tibetan Buddhism, Western philosophy, themes of transcen- dence. But she is also capable of weaving thought, natural sounds, into shapes on the violin that just happen to coincide with existing compositions. To listen to her is to hear Bach or BartÓk improvising.
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