Meloscape

As the word collage "Meloscape" suggests, this is a musical landscape of a melody. An imaginary balloon ride sounds here in the length of approx. 20 minutes, but not in the form of programme music. Rather, it is about how a landscape is perceived from different aspects. On departure, for example, one sees only a wide flat landscape. As one climbs higher and higher, the silhouette of hills and mountains becomes visible on the horizon. Looking further up, structures of road networks linking villages and towns are formed. Looking up even higher from space, continents are formed, surrounded by oceans. The higher you fly, the more complete the picture becomes. In this work, I have projected this imaginary zooming in and out onto the time axis: An 8-bar melody sounds 16 times here. At the beginning, it is still so extremely stretched out in time that no harmonic connections can yet be discerned, but the differently coloured sounds can be perceived. Towards the middle of the work, the melody becomes more and more compressed in time, accelerated and rhythmically, emotionally condensed, which in turn slows down to the original tempo by the end of the work, thus closing the formal circle.