UPDATE: actually dismounted in search of a new home.
Visit at secondlife://royal%20opera/40/130/24
This is a long story, which began many years ago when there were no CDs and vinyl objects called LPs were used to listen to music. I had several of these LPs, including some from a band that fascinated and frightened me at the same time.
This band was called Tangerine Dream, and it explored territories unknown to me, because electronic music was little known and to make it you needed tools that were unattainable for me, even if only for the cost.
Their leader, Edgar Froese, seemed to me to be shady and diabolical, and the music evoked strange echoes inside me.
But damn Phaedra was really fascinating.
The band has changed a lot over the years, also due to its longevity (it has been active since 1967, incredible), with ups and downs as is normal.
In 2015 Edgard Froese died, but the band continued its history under the guidance of Thorsten Quaeschning, who was in Tangerine Dream since 2005.
Thorsten is truly a special person. I’ve never seen someone as dedicated to music as he is, the live performances prove it. I once asked him what the trick was, it’s impossible to play electronic music live like he does, and the answer was disarming: Livio, I love music. I play hours every day and I live for the music. That’s all.
It is from him that I first heard about this Quantum Gate, during a online event called Behind closed doors with.... Idea was very simple: we go on stage and we let that music talk, live. LIVE? After two concerts, was clear for me that something exceptional was happening.
On stage he is gigantic, What is this Quantum Gate, Thorsten? You will find out for yourself, the answer. Know that there are rules to understand, it’s a special place that Edgard has worked hard on. So I started exploring Tangerine Dream’s music in search of hidden messages, arcane harmonies, rules of composition, secret portals to unknown spaces. Ok, I know, sometimes I’m stupid, it certainly wasn’t that, this was just the easiest way for me
Time ago. I had read about a place where the stories of all the lives that have appeared and will appear on this planet are kept. Immediately in my mind the image of an immense library was formed, where all the papyri with this information were kept. Once I talked about it with a wise friend, who told me Livio, look at the sky every now and then. that is your library.
So, slowly I too learn to be a little wiser, to admire these soundscapes with simplicity, accepting them for what they are and what they say without building endless and even useless stories on top of them, calm down and listen to music, there is no need for anything else
To thank for the teachings and the love that transpires from all this beauty, I wanted to create an installation in a simultaneously real and unreal place like a virtual world can be. There is something further on, much more solid and concrete than one might think.
My Quantum Gate in Second Life is an installation based on the videos I produced to accompany the music of Tangerine Dream, collected in a video list on Youtube.
I have no pretense of explaining to anyone what the Quantum Gate is (also because it could be different for everyone), it’s enough for me to imagine that someone is intrigued and ventures down the road and offers them a shortcut, perhaps when they visit this place.
From presentation of Quantum Gate work: Thorsten Quaeschning, Ulrich Scnauss and Hoshiko Yamane worked together to realize Edgar’s visions and expectations of a conceptual album that attempts to translate quantum physics and philosophy into music. New member Ulrich Schnauss comments: “at the moment hardly any other area of science questions our concept of reality (linearity of time etc.) as profoundly as research in Quantum physics – it’s no surprise therefore that Edgar was drawn to these ideas since he had always aimed at reminding listeners of the existence of ‘unopened doors‘.”
Just surrender :). And smile thinking that Thorsten Quaeschning did a serie of exceptional live concerts called Behind Closed Doors, maybe for tease Edgard (ei look, i am opening doors).
In anycase, Froese himself is credited on all but one track, mostly due to musical sketches he left behind, so he is never dead or missing, he is still really a member of actual Tangerine Dream.
This is the gift of Quantum Gate, printed on The Emerald Tablet. As above, so below.