Various - Nachtkl�nge Kammermusik

The term I like to use is Klangbild, a picture in sound. It refers to the musical reaction we can have vis-a-vis paintings or texts. Take the Five Meditations on Stained-Glass Windows, for instance: the original stained-glass windows featured scenes from the Old and New Testaments. My music is by no means an attempt to 'describe' those stories; rather, it is the outgrowth of my very personal, individual thoughts and emotions. My approach is like that of a book illustrator. The music should not attempt to recount the story; rather, quite differently, it offers an independent commentary on the events. I apply the same approach in my 'musical commentaries' on Dietmar Scholz's textual aphorisms. The music does not literally depict the lonely hair that becomes important by falling into the soup': but tries to grasp the meaning hidden behind the text. This becomes particularly apparent in the case of Scholz's aphorism ' In a mirror, everything is similar and everything is the opposite': this textual content can be musically depicted as a form. In the same way, my musical setting of the Romanesque Frescoes is not a description, but a commentary.