Music

One of my hobbies is composing music on the various keyboards I’ve owned over the years. It all began with a small Yamaha organ my parents bought for me, which I later brought along to the tiny room in my student dormitory (you can see it in the background of the photo).

The music I composed I used for many of my short films that can be found on this site as well. And I made two albums:

Cosmology ©

This album was produced in the summer of 2009 and finalised in 2010. It was inspired by reading The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene. The music explores space and our evolving understanding of it — as reflected in the picture on the cover of the CD.

The journey begins with the Big Bang and the mysteries of what came before and after. It then moves through the eras of Newton and Einstein, when scientists uncovered ever-smaller particles, fundamental laws of physics, and the vast scale of the cosmos. Strange and fascinating theories emerged, each pushing the boundaries of what we can comprehend. But in the end, will the universe ever be fully graspable by our limited human minds?

Before the bang: what was there?
Why things were as:  … they were?
Whose foodstep: Who or what started the universe?
Huge empty space: Flying in dark nothing. No transparancy
Background radiation: Photo(ns) from the very start
So many stars: Popping up. Turn on the light
Moons of Jupiter: Planets develop out of cosmic debris
Universe and the bucket: Who is spinning around?
The water or the bucket?
Time is just an illusion: Travel fast enough and time stops
2 split experiment: Sorry, are you particle or wave?
The missing note: A particle is missing in the theory of everything
Life on a string: Particles made of tiny vibrating strings
Spin symmetry: Spin around to find a symmetric partner
Ping pong particles: Sometimes here and sometimes there
Dark energy: Can you see the energy?
Multiple dimensions: More dimensions in our universe?
A brane new world: More universes than dimensions?
Gravity in your mind: But perhaps it is just us imagining it all….

The second album is called Freathening © and was produced in November 2009. It deals with our fears. See inside cover of CD below (partly in dutch).

The title and title song is Freathening (not existing in English) but is somewhere in between frightening, threathening and fear and also refers to my first name. It is about fear for supernatural powers.

The other tracks and fears are:

Short equilibrium (fear for losing your peace of mind)
Dividing minds (fear to grow apart)
Suddenly (fear for disasters)
Just another day (fear for emptyness)
Nasty tropical surprise (fear to get a tropic disease)
Monotonous (fear to get bored)
Triton (king of the sea. Fear for drowning)
Second thoughts (fear to take wrong decisions)
Cracking fingers (fear to get old)
Musical portrait (fear to get blind)
Far away from house (fear to get lost)
Depressed (fear to get depressed)
Before death (fear in the moments before dying)
Why you? (fear to lose someone)