Formant II – Der Blaue Klang
Creative forms
Music (2009)
Electronic music – 19:33 min
Series of images,
high-quality limited production
in a signed edition
Video Visiography (2012)
Sound and image composition – 20:50 min
"In the beginning was Sound"
The beginning of John's Gospel: it names something that is described in outwardly different codifications as the essence of many religions and spiritual interpretations of life. Language remains limited here by its inherent restrictions. Only through the existential experience of the implied do the metaphors used gain the dimension of understood truth.
The key text in the final part of the composition
To access this experience, in my adaptation of this key text I have used the possible translation variant "Sound" and employed compositional metaphors to make my understanding of this view of existence perceptible in a holistic way:
Synchronicities of differently varying states of identical material penetrate one another in the visual and acoustic events: in slow, subtle processes of change at different speeds (Canon per Augmentationem), adapted to different manifestations of the material, a cosmos of spacious cycles emerges. Sound and vision reflect here – only broken down prism-like – different views on a wholeness, which is perceptible only in segments.
In Part 2 of the composition, a language-derived abstraction manifests itself: in the modulated sound of a discourse, in the archaic encrypted lettering of the opening lines, up to the muted final fade-in of the source text; all while the music is more and more condensed on a core of pulses.
English translation of the German original. Deutsche Fassung
