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Milky Way

The idea that has led us to record Milky Way evolved from a purely elemental and emotional experience. The spectacular Milky Way links nations, history, cultures, families, friends, and lovers together. It connects humanity through past, presence, and future. We look at the same sky as our ancestors did and, in the future, so will our grandchildren. The Milky Way is the collective anthology of humanity. We wanted to hear how this anthology sounds.

This impression concluded in a thorough research of the topic. We studied structures, relations, space and time.

We committed to an impossible project. We attempted to capture a system in music that is constantly in motion. Besides, our planet gave us the option to look at the stars from only one angle, as did the satellites that take pictures of the deepness of the universe. Every new viewpoint shifted our perception of the ‘system’ and resulted in unlimited possibilities of translating the Milky Way into music. Our goal seemed impossible. For this reason, we narrowed our focus to work with the placement, distance, and rhythm of the stars that fell under the ray of a single line drawn with a pencil across the image of the Milky Way. The vast number of stars in this segment was enough to show how the entire universe might sound.

Out of the eight parts into which we split the Milky Way, the first part consisted of the pencil line and the stars that we used for notation. We followed our technique that we utilized in Bruegel Variations to determine the notes on the music sheet. The playtime of the resulting score is one hour. As the first part alone includes 180 lines, their total playtime would last seven and a half days. Thus, to play the music of all eight parts of the Milky Way would take 56 day without stopping. The sample that the listener hears on this CD is the first half of 1 out of 1350 lines.

As we associate the Milky Way with eternity, we selected to perform the score on the organ, which is able to emulate infinity in its nature.

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from Milky Way and Nervous System, released November 26, 2021
Composed By Sándor Vály and Éva Polgár

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Sándor Vály (1968) is an audiovisual artist born in Hungary and currently living in Finland and Italy. Vály’s art is characterised by conceptual and philosophical dimension, which he uses to operate in the field of contemporary art. His work ranges from music to cinema, performance art and literature. Vály creates holistic works of art that form extensive entities ... more

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