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Of all things most yielding

by Arthur Durkee

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What is of all things most yielding can overcome that which is most hard; being substanceless, it can enter in even where there is no crevice. That is how I know the value of action which is actionless. But that there can be teaching without words, value in action which is actionless, few indeed can understand. —Lao Tzu, Tao de Ching, 43 (trans. unknown) • The gentlest thing in the world overcomes the hardest thing in the world. That which has no substance enters where there is no space. This shows the value of non-action. Teaching without words, performing without actions: that is the Master's way. —trans. Stephen Mitchell • What’s softest in the world rushes and runs over what’s hardest in the world. The immaterial enters the impenetrable. So I know the good in not doing not many people understand it. —trans. Ursula K. Le Guin
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An album inspired by looking into space, by astronomy, by the dark night of the soul, by introspection and meditation. It's my solo stab at approaching chill/ambient electronica, spacemusic, and/or the silence of a starry night in the desert.

"Of all things most yielding" is from section 43 of the Tao de Ching, referring to both how water, which is soft and formless, can over time erode away the hardest rock, and the value of non-action.

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released May 11, 2018

Arthur Durkee: Chapman Stick with Infinite Sustain Feedback System, bass guitar, piano, synths, shakuhachi, drum programming, loops, samples, effects

Produced, performed, mixed, and mastered by Arthur Durkee at Dragonsweyr, 2006. Remastered 2018 at Dragonsweyr.

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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