KlangArt Samuel Heller

KlangArt Samuel Heller

Archive for February, 2012

First outdoor Session 2012

1st outdoor session 2012 at the Rhein
Yes, back from the first outdoor session this year. Yay! Inspiration lead to a minor scale with the major 6th as the main note, playing downwards to the 5th, upwards to the 4th. For a basic concept. Kind of melancholic romance.
It’s still to cold to play fast, but nice [...]

Experience the Scale of the Universe with all senses – or finding God

[...] They say human minds cannot apprehend such dimensions. I’m not sure. Start thinking about the last year of your life, how much time it was; about 10 years of you like; your whole lifetime; how many of your ancestors lived in the last 1’000 years?; the technical progress in the last 10’000 years; 50’000 years ago modern humans started colonizing the continents; anatomically modern humans appearing in Africa 200’000 years ago – how many descendants will you have in the year 202’012? Visualize your whole lifetime; 1’500’000 years ago were the first simple huts; 2’400’000 years ago appearance of the homo genus – imagine the winters: no food and it’s damn cold – they needed to wait for about 2’394’500 years for sewerage; modern-type butterflies appeared 40 mio years ago. Take your time, repeat, imagine the years. [...]

Frozen people in Europe: again!

Is it just me, or… you know, I mean… why is this not a scandal? Europe is the root of social democracy – why do we let that happen?