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Paradigm Shift
Cudd, Michael Seth
Paradigm Shift is a programatic work that depicts Plato's Allegory of the Cave where prisoners are chained in a way that only allows them to see shadows on a cave wall. This is the reality that the group sees and understands to be … Read More
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Paradigm Shift is a programatic work that depicts Plato's Allegory of the Cave where prisoners are chained in a way that only allows them to see shadows on a cave wall. This is the reality that the group sees and understands to be "real," but the piece climaxes when one prisoner is released and dragged out of the cave where it is possible to see reality for what it is. The realization that everything he has experienced was nothing more than shadows of the real world would be a paradigm shift, and it would be impossible to return to his previous understanding of life. The music fades as the prisoner accepts his new reality and begins to investigate the world around him.