The meditative element - an open state of listening

In contrast to the lyrical element, which is freely given to us, a gift, a scent, which comes to us unasked, the meditative element is linked to the fact that one brings oneself into an open state of listening. Some of my music quite definitely appeals to this particular human ability of meditative listening. The beginning of Prelude to Breaking, for example, which means quite literally the prelude to the breaking of a wave

- and here I am thinking of those massive breakers one experiences near the great oceans. The ones that come crashing in on tropical beaches, breaking all at once in a great sheet of water - one of those breakers. The sound connected with the crashing of such waves I have linked to the experience of the fundamental tone of the ocean in South India, and this is what is formulated in the composition Prelude to Breaking, prelude to the breaking of the wave. For a long time one simply follows the melody ( ... ), which I actually did hear in the sea there, in South India, linked to an overtone row which I definitely heard in the sea, with a fundamental note - the deep G.

'Meditative' is the only term I can find for listening to such music. Later on, though, when the breaking movement is complete and the wave has crashed, then a mood of panic arises. One has lost one's bearings, one has crashed down from one level to another.

Moreover, this is something one can characterise as yet another expression of the Witch-lake, where all control is impossible. Chaos rules.