Werner Möbius / Version 0

“… the form is empty; the emptiness turns into form. – no eye, no ear, no nose, no tongue, no body, no mind, no color, no sound, no smell, no flavor, no sense of touch, no thing that exists…”

In the movie “Little Buddha” by Bernardo Bertolucci the Tibetan monk Lama Norbu tries to explain death to a group of children, shortly before dying he gives us the advice „no thing does exist anymore”. The resulting possibility, that new things could arise out of situations without a connection to any existing things, was an inspiration for this work.

Seven continuous sound forms, (which are more acoustic states than compositions) each individual a concise aesthetic statement in itself, not uniquely definable, timeless or untitled – “no thing that exists”. The string of the pieces is defined and caused (titles are waived for to not anticipate any associations) the sound devices remaining secret, there is nothing that deflects from listening. Composing in this spirit means a topographic exploration of a reality which is far removed from the everyday. Turning to the sound itself, generating an acoustic material out of unknown deep micro- structures, granulating it with awareness for sensibility until an oscillating state between sound implosion and focused clearness takes place. Aesthetic decisions are emerging from implicit contours of the complex sound forms. Each of the seven acoustic images was worked out over many years. Listening to them again and again, letting them mature, letting them reverberate under different site-specific acoustic conditions. Exchanging frequencies and working out plasticity, was part of the composing process. Seven states to convey a sensual presence, allowing the sound to catch the awareness of the recipient, to enwrap him and to give him space for a cognitive experience.