In this first instalment of the Kosmos Series, we are asked to ponder the question: what is our place in the Universe? Are we specks of matter drifting aimlessly across space, or are we maybe made for a more mystical and distant purpose?

Based upon the foundational work of pre-socratic philosophers, this piece conjures up the idea of a world filled with natural phenomena that are all linked within one cosmology. As it is building patterns of notes on top of each other, so is the universe made up of winds, rains, clouds, and beings, all connected the same way, their existence being tightly intertwined.

This presupposition may be exemplified by the Butterfly Effect, but the Ionian philosopher was one of the first to conclude beings were all linked in a perfect ever-evolving cycle, coming out of earth and then going back to earth.

The cosmological concepts exposed here are reproduced in the piece, as its introduction builds and creates the musical skeleton undergirding the whole rhythmic and melodic structure of the next two parts. And according to Anaximander, it is under one sky, one God, that all living beings are connected and share the same condition: to look at the heavens and wonder where they come from.

Marimba (5.0 Octave)

Front Cover graphics and layout: Nicola Lee
Photo: Ewen Kervadec
Printed in Copenhagen, Denmark
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