My desire is to invite to breathe, to relax, to pamper the listener through the various stages of listening while at the same time keeping in mind how alienating and menacing existence may be, when the capitalist society around us is encroaching more and more on the human space.
My challenge for this work was to marry string instruments with electronics. I used my electric Psalterion as a backup, played with a bow or sometimes plucked, as well as a work on the tuning (dissonant variations or thicker strings).
The electronics are played on the EMS Synthi A analog system.
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