The Omega Centauri Project

I wrote the three compositions that comprise The Omega Centauri Project between 2005 and 2009. The pieces were commissioned by Christine Vandemoortele who conceived and produced the project. Christine wrote a large number of sentences or fragments of speech which were subsequently recorded in a studio by four actors. These pre-recorded speech utterances form the initial sonic material around which I composed the three pieces that form this trilogy.

The music I wrote explores the energy patterns of these disconnected sentences as they come together, sometimes creating the illusion of a linear narrative not unlike what we may hear in a radio play or a film. At times this may give the impression that a conventional conversation -part of an emotional story- is in progress. In other places the abrupt juxtaposition of the words or sentences, or their simultaneous or staggered combination creates a feeling of randomness or chaos. There is also humor, created both intentionally and unintentionally.

Christine’s initial idea was to somehow relate the chance meeting of emotionally charged fragments of speech with random encounters of orbiting stars. She chose the globular cluster Omega Centauri, awe-inspiring in its size of over a million orbiting stars as a source of inspiration. The music I wrote reflects this intention.

In 2010 Christine directed an abstract film whcih was structured around and edited to the music I composed, using images and data from the globular cluster Omega Centauri provide by the astronomer Professor Francesco R. Ferraro. The film was edited by Daniel Goddard.

A.V.

For full details on this project and to see images and excerpts of the films go to the official web site of THE OMEGA CENTAURI PROJECT


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		Have I spoken out of turn? (2005)
		Conversation is not compulsory (2008)
		What I am trying to say (2009)
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	I wrote the three compositions that comprise The Omega Centauri Project between 2005 and 2009. The pieces were commissioned by Christine Vandemoortele who conceived and produced the project. Christine wrote a large number of sentences or fragments of speech which were subsequently recorded in a studio by four actors. These pre-recorded speech utterances form the initial sonic material around which I composed the three pieces that form this trilogy. The music I wrote explores the energy patterns of these disconnected sentences as they come together, sometimes creating the illusion of a linear narrative not unlike what we may hear in a radio play or a film. At times this may give the impression that a conventional conversation -part of an emotional story- is in progress. In other places the abrupt juxtaposition of the words or sentences, or their simultaneous or staggered combination creates a feeling of randomness or chaos. There is also humor, created both intentionally and unintentionally. Christine’s initial idea was to somehow relate the chance meeting of emotionally charged fragments of speech with random encounters of orbiting stars. She chose the globular cluster Omega Centauri, awe-inspiring in its size of over a million orbiting stars as a source of inspiration. The music I wrote reflects this intention. In 2010 Christine directed an abstract film whcih was structured around and edited to the music I composed, using images and data from the globular cluster Omega Centauri provide by the astronomer Professor Francesco R. Ferraro. The film was edited by Daniel Goddard. A.V. For full details on this project and to see images and excerpts of the films go to the official web site of THE OMEGA CENTAURI PROJECT