LEX is a work for vocal soloists, choir and chamber orchestra that explores the universal cyclical, and opposite, themes of creation and annihilation from multiple perspectives: the religious, scientific and the poetic. It is a large-scale composition that may be thought of as an oratorio or as a conceptual album of interrelated pieces. The libretto is compiled from several sources, that while disparate, nevertheless share certain philosophical and thematic commonalities. The principle texts incorporated in this work are “Hide”, “The Box” and “Madame Zero” from Michael Symmons Roberts collection of poems entitled Corpus and Isaac Newton’s “Three Laws of Motion” from his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica. Other texts include fragments from the book of bereshit (Genesis) from the Torah, a fragment from the Nicene Creed and brief quotations from physicists Albert Einstein and Émilie du Châtelet.