«Ströme»

I closed my eyes, the space around me began to pulsate. A choir of 70 people, united, yet physically separated from each other, and me in my pulpit built of keyboard instruments. As we all engage in a moment of contemplation, we are doing what all human beings do simply to stay alive: we breathe. Winding their way between the performers are the melodies that radiate from my piano. As if bouncing off a glittering vault, we are reflected and fragmented ad infinitum. Bar by bar the structure becomes further illuminated, and the complex process of interaction becomes comprehensible while remaining beyond the grasp. The architecture of this space seems to reach infinity. Synthetic sounds and elements of noise exert a pressure that transforms pillars of rhythm into lucid melodies. Broad syllables melt into clangorous vowels. Everything is subject to transformation. Everything is dependent upon something else. And no-one says a word. «Ströme» is, so to say, the latest refinement of a snapshot of my music. It is the result of lively collaboration between myself, my intuition and a performing collective, Leipzig‘s GewandhausChor. On this album, my modular compositions – not ‘works’ as such, but rather compendiums of interconnecting musical ideas – once again break into new terrain. They resonate with the choir, and above all with its director Gregor Meyer, sparking emotional impulses between the singers and indirectly stimulating movement in their bodies.

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