’Antinomy’ - PolyChromatic composition by Dolores Catherino

Antinomy: incompatible truths/facts; anomalies; irreconcilable differences/perspectives; all pushing the boundaries of language, awareness and understanding toward ever-expanding limits. Antinomies expose the limitations of binary, either/or, 0/1 logic, as well as the use of discrete, categorical and conceptual boundaries in language. Examples: logical and rational/irrational paradoxes; catch-22; sociological: an American era of mass incarceration as a ‘solution’ (which generates more expansive problems) to the difficulties of drug addiction, poverty, homelessness, unaddressed psychiatric illness, etc. ’Antinomy’ as an awareness and curiosity of audible anomalies of sound which seem to be incompatible with visually-based conceptions of space: superposition of sound ‘objects’ in space, sound waves constructively/destructively interfering AND passing through, intact without structurally modifying interactions. An intuition emerges, of a multidimensional auditory ‘space’ (field) wit