Antithesis

In Antithesis, musician and writer Nat Baldwin presents a polyphonic self-portrait of a creative life across disciplines, blurring the boundaries between language and sound. The collage-like narrative unfolds in a loose chronology of statements of fact about music, books, people, circumstances and myriad other topics of personal significance. Each chapter spirals around distinct affinities, guided by shared questions and concerns. As threads of intertextual activity emerge and overlap, the prose vibrates and hums, allowing a sonic world to link to the unconscious. The careful curation of references and assorted details accumulates into an indirect representation of self akin to an exoskeleton in text. While ghosts of an unspeakable grief also haunt the work, the act of its making reveals a new time being conjured, offering a living archive of the composition process itself and a map to a possible future.