Falkensee, Germany. The album Imaginary Ecosystems comprises three 13-minute tracks—Omar Eilam on their creation and the different qualities they express.
The opening piece, “Anthroposophia,” is based on a lecture given by Rudolf Steiner, which guides our imagination to explore realms that exist between our wakeful and our dream consciousness. Passing over to artistic perception, the music conjures up invisible choirs singing a duet with metallic insects and an enormous music box lullabying to a stuttering wind… As its twin sister piece, “Vision of the Valley of Dry Bones,” reflects on timeless notions of creation and destruction. Inspired by the vision of the prophet Ezekiel, spatial sound synthesis techniques reconstruct the transformation of dry bones into living, breathing musical entities. Created over the course of the disastrous war in Israel-Gaza, it is an attempt to form a response to current events and a search for meaning through sound. Closing the album is “Solar System Meditation,” a modern adaptation of Johannes Kepler’s Music of the Spheres. It employs spatial sound synthesis techniques in ways that correspond to the rotation of the planets around the sun. The composition is divided into three segments: formation, crystallisation, and decay. In each segment, different sonic processes are set into motion, which embody a narrative—both mythological and scientific—that invites us to experience the nature of our solar system as it is captured in sound. And as we pass the farthest reaches of the cosmos, we find the sound of our own breath, uniting the outermost with the innermost, the periphery and the center.
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Album Cover Art Gohar Gasparyan
