Exhaling music in about 100 °C
Flint Juventino Beppe
? Ich atme ein, was das Leben zu bieten hat, und atme aus, was ich dem Leben zu bieten habe.
When music runs through the head, it doesn't seem to care about materialistic or geographical convenience.
When I received the commission to write a new Double Concerto for Violin, Cello and Symphony Orchestra, most of the music actually appeared in front of me while being in the sauna.
Perhaps the heat had a strong influence on the physics, forcing an often aching body to relax, including blocking out much of my tendency to severely overthink, for some moments?
I can only wonder why the sauna frequently has such a productive effect on me; maybe it has something to do with being close to non-human, nature elements (wood, stone, heat, water) and that I am alone with my own thoughts.
Nevertheless, I'm grateful that my brain handled the intense heat well enough to let me breathe out a new Double Concerto in such a "boiling" setting.
Here, you can listen to a MIDI recording of, and, if you like, read the free score at the same time: ?Four Elements from Hedmark? Op.85