SPHERIC - Poem Of The Atoms . CD

"Not only are the galaxies spinning, but also the stars within the galaxies, and the Earth is spinning, and the Earth around the sun and the moon around the Earth. Pretty much the whole universe is spinning.”

This statement by the astrophysicist Noam Libeskind together with the aphorism, attributed to Heraclitus, "Panta Rei" (everything flows) and especially the Poem of the Atoms by the Sufi poet Rumi were the sources of inspiration for my new musical project. Jalal al-Din Rumi was also the founder in the 12th Century of the brotherhood of the "Whirling Dervishes" (Mevlevi). In their performances, which can still be admired today, the dervishes rotate their bodies clockwise and anticlockwise in a repetitive manner, simulating the movement of the planets around the sun. But Rumi saw this movement everywhere and therefore also cast a poetic glance to the microcosm. In his "Poem of the Atoms", he speaks of dancing atoms.

The idea that everything moves, that everything changes and rotates, in the macrocosm as well as in the microcosm, is the basis of this new work of mine and fits perfectly with my idea of music, which is often built on superimpositions of harmonic, rhythmic and melodic patterns that rotate in time. Exploring musically the fascinating world of atoms, I again chose a subject of a scientific nature to give continuity to my previous work "Music for Laboratories" but with the desire, in this new project, to find a meeting point between science, philosophy and mysticism. - Spheric