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An Experimentally Conceptualized,
Multi-Sensory, "OMNIMedia" Symphony,
and (Live) Performance-Art Event
including an Interactive Sound/Light Installation
INFORMATION ABOUT: The Performance Concepts, the underlying Creative Process
(including Story writing, Music composing, Programming, etc.)
Some of the Influences, the Research being done,
ongoing progress being made on the Project
and efforts to find support for the Development Costs
through Fundraising, Grants, Fellowships and Private Donations.
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The Great Instrument is uncompleted. The Great Tone has inaudible sound.
- Lao Tzu
Tao Te Ching

Topic:
WHAT MAKES A GREAT COMPOSER?
Under the most difficult circumstances for a creative musician, that of total deafness, Ludwig van Beethoven achieved more than any other composer in better, similar or worse circumstances.

The story of his life is one of great tragedy and mystery. His music is some of the most dramatic and endurable ever written.

He performed in his first public recital at the age of eight, and began to compose at the age of eleven. To improve himself further Beethoven took violin lessons.

At the age of sixteen, Beethoven went to Vienna to meet Mozart who was very taken with him and said these immortal words about Ludwig ,"Keep your eyes on him; some day he will give the world something to talk about."



Music can be all things to all persons. It is like a great dynamic sun in the center of a solar system which sends out its rays and inspiration in every direction.... Music makes us feel that the heavens open and a divine voice calls. Something in our souls responds and understands.
- Leopold Stokowski

Physicist Fritjof Capra informs us that the integration of recent insights in physics and the life sciences will require "a conceptual shift from structure to rhythm." Theorists now describe atoms in terms of harmonics; molecules vibrate; each substance is "tuned" to a unique pitch; plants and animals undergo cycles of growth and rest; planets fall into resonant orbits; stars oscillate, and galexies whirl a majestic spiral dance.
- Richard Heinberg
Music of the (Hemi) Sphere