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Gelb (Yellow)

Willy de Ville's song Heaven Stood Still was the original template for Thomas Zehnter's choreography, documented by the appearance of the three words at the end.
My music does not refer to this piece, nor to the metaphor of the dawn as a magical moment, in which love is experienced timelessly.

Rather, I was attracted by the rich and at the same time light and airy colors and forms in Thomas Zehnter's artwork that inspired me to search for appropriate musical means.
So it was obvious to use flute sounds – as „original sounds” (indeed once played by a human being on the instrument) and also electronically generated (MIDI) and / or alienated sounds.

Just as Thomas Zehnter's choreography ever again establishes associations with figurative elements (based on the lyrics of the song), for instance eyes and tears, my music, too, repeatedly seeks out familiar tonal paths:
chains of suspended notes and mixtures form the musical counterpart to a flowing, blurring colorfulness and form design.

Additional ajouté instruments for formal markings and tonal colorations are chosen due to their association with the colors yellow or gold: french horn, tubular bells (also glockenspiel) and sitar.

While formally very strictly tied to the visual template, the piece is a kind of meditation on the „luminous floating” that I associate with a bright summer day.


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