Art Book N•O•M

Notes und Noten

If I had two wishes as a composer, it would be:

1. that my music has an audience (of course!)
2. that my music is played by as many people as possible (certainly!)

A few months ago I was thinking of publishing regular sheet music, with a special touch, though: an aesthetic envelope, high quality binding, special paper.
Little by little more details came in: perhaps a drawing here, a photo there, some documents from my (yellow) notebooks … At this point the linguistic relationship between the terms notes (notebook) and note (in a musical way) jumped in the eye for the first time.

Both are my preferred means of expression, to represent personal positions of relations between the inside and outside world. Spontaneously thrown thoughts – as Notes in concrete words – here, organized thoughts – translated with notes into the unlimited language of music – there.
What we finally have here is a synthesis of both, a music book ( in German language: “Notenbuch”): a fragmentary collection of materials from the life practice of my human existence – thoughts, experiences, questions, paraphrases, quotes, desiderates, aspects, feelings, drafts, sources … textual, graphical, idealistic, formative, evaluative, photographically and musically.