De Rerum Natura / Dance of the Elements

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Release Date: 2019

Label: Gruenrekorder

Sound composition by Merzouga
Inspired by Lucrecius' philosiphical poem.

De Rerum Natura is a didactic poem by the Roman poet and philosopher Lucretius (c. 99-55 BCE). The poem explores Epicurean physics and philosophy through richly poetic language and metaphors. It presents an entire cosmology: based on the principles of atomism. Lucrecius explains the nature of the mind and soul, and the development of the world. While everything in the universe is finite, the atoms themselves are eternal - they collide again in order to create new forms. Life is a beautiful chance-driven Dance of the Elements. The composition by sound-artists Eva Popplein and Janko Hanushevsky (aka Marzouga) is a poetic sonic translation of Lucrecius' ideas. The listener embarks on a sonic journey in which a universe of sound unfolds. Smallest sonic elements float through space, merge to create concrete forms, steadily in motion in a constant process of becoming and dissolving.