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ποΈ 27 May 2021
β±οΈ 31 minutes
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As a young composer, Max Richter is searching for his voice, the sound of a music that is uniquely his. But what he has is only a box of fragments, song experiments, half-formed questions. He sits with them, he thinks on them, he lets them mature β and then he realizes: This is exactly the music he wants to make. As he shapes the fragments into his early masterpiece Memoryhouse, he finds the beauty in moving between modes, working in the mysterious space out of time that only music can create.
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0:00.0 | I come to a part of the trail, studied with 38 different prayer monuments. |
0:25.0 | 20-30-foot tall tree trunks arranged in the shape of an infinity symbol. |
0:34.0 | Each with a different quote from the Buddhist heart sutra carved into it. |
0:39.0 | Above my path is an archway where the phrase written in English as well as Chinese. |
0:45.0 | There is no time, what is memory? |
0:49.0 | The question stops me in my tracks. |
0:53.0 | There is no time, what is memory? |
0:58.0 | I'm hungry, dehydrated, tired, disoriented. |
1:04.0 | I'm feeling lost and embracing that feeling of lostness all day. |
1:11.0 | All of my defences are down right now. |
1:15.0 | Right now I'm more ready to accept a new way of thinking than ever been. |
1:22.0 | This concept of a world without time captivates me. |
1:36.0 | Max Richter is one of the great composers working today and I have to confess to being entirely in love with his work. |
1:43.0 | You may have listened to his albums starting with 2002's Memmy House through to voices from last year. |
1:50.0 | But you'll have definitely heard his music in some of the best films and TV shows of recent years. |
1:55.0 | Add Astra, Arrival, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, Black Mirror, Bridgerton. |
2:01.0 | I could go on. |
2:03.0 | In today's meditative story, Max Richter experiences from his life that occur at the edges of conscious thought, |
2:09.0 | somewhere in the in-between spaces of awakeness and dream. |
2:13.0 | It's an ethereal story, unlike any other in our series, |
2:17.0 | so allow yourself to follow his reflections wherever they take you. |
2:22.0 | In this series, we combine immersive first-person stories and breathtaking music |
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