These days time keeping is no longer adequate; networked
synchronization of the human resources and ever-finer subdivision
of their time are replacing it. Twilight of the Second Hand
does the same. 720 watches are set incorrectly so that their
hourly chimes are heard all the time, but many are dead
- their batteries have expired. Those that still run beep
rather timidly. The primary sound of the piece is the same
watch beep, but it is synthe...[ more ]
Today, the ring of the cell phone is more common
than the beep of a watch and setting a watch is becoming,
er, anachronistic... Time keeping is no longer adequate;
it is being replaced by networked synchronization of...[ more ]
