I Am A Moment Illuminating Eternity
Nov 13, 2020, 05:34 PM
Sorcerors created by Thomas Van den Eynde.
"I Am A Moment Illuminating Eternity is a short piece for string orchestra. When I was assigned zone 22 of Hell, I found myself in the region of sorcerors, fortune tellers and diviners. By spending their lives trying to foresee the future, they were punished by having "their heads turned backwards on their bodies and to be compelled to walk backwards throughout eternity".
"Musically I represented this by arranging slowly swelling tone clusters in an almost contrapuntal canon, always repeating itself. The recording should be perceived as only a fragment of an eternally continuous shifting mass of sound.
"Both the title and the music evoke a search for enlightenment, a quest to find a glimpse of Infinity. "
"I Am A Moment Illuminating Eternity is a short piece for string orchestra. When I was assigned zone 22 of Hell, I found myself in the region of sorcerors, fortune tellers and diviners. By spending their lives trying to foresee the future, they were punished by having "their heads turned backwards on their bodies and to be compelled to walk backwards throughout eternity".
"Musically I represented this by arranging slowly swelling tone clusters in an almost contrapuntal canon, always repeating itself. The recording should be perceived as only a fragment of an eternally continuous shifting mass of sound.
"Both the title and the music evoke a search for enlightenment, a quest to find a glimpse of Infinity. "
Part of the Inferno project to imagine and compose the sounds of Dante’s Hell, marking the 700th anniversary of The Divine Comedy. To find out more, visit http://www.citiesandmemory.com/inferno