Artist: Bernd Kistenmacher
Tracklist:
1 Preparations 01:38
2 Rising 02:20
3 Caverns Of Knowledge 08:00
4 Injection 02:04
5 Acceleration 10:05
6 Filling The Emptiness 05:02
7 They Call It Soup! 09:48
8 On The Shoulders Of ATLAS 09:30
9 What's The Matter? 07:00
10 It Doesn't Matter 04:29
11 Large Hadron Collider 07:21
12 Where Is Higgs? 05:59
This is the musical interpretation of the "Antimatter" thing by Bernd Kistenmacher.
His usual melodies are played in a more symphonic and more soundtrack feelling way.
„Antimatter” completes Bernd Kistenmacher’s „Trilogy of the Universe“. What started with “Celestial Movements” (a soundtrack for the stars) and continued with “Beyond The Deep” (a musical examination of the question of genesis) gave a certain direction: from huge to small and from the “here and now” to the roots of existence. The Big Bang in the laboratory is the musical theme of “Antimatter”. And it is not any laboratory but the LHC, the Large Hadron Collider. This “world's biggest machine” was built to answer the question of genesis. What happened a picosecond after the Big Bang? Can this moment be re-enacted in the laboratory? To understand it (at least a little bit) he was advised by Rolf Landua, physicist at CERN - the European Organisation for Nuclear Research in Geneva. Protons are being accelerated to speed of light in two antidromic magnetrons and crossed at a destined point to make them collide. Energy becomes matter. They say: opposites attract. Often they destroy each other. Like as if matter and antimatter clash and erase in bright light.
Bernd Kistenmacher always takes human aspects into account in his compositions. How do we behave when we “collide”? Do we complement one another or do we simply exist to erase one another? “Antimatter” cannot give the answer but wants to show the energies which dominate human beings. We all originate from a creative act! Similarly, Bernd Kistenmacher artistically deals with the term “beauty”. What is “beautiful”? He states that even technical processes have a poetic, a beautiful aspect. So, “Antimatter” is not only the music adjusted to a physical experiment but is also the music to a virtual movie which shows nothing else but the beauty of the universe. Energy becomes music. Technical-electronical sound structures alternate with symphonic textures. The music gets more and more compact and powerful up to the moment of collision. The circle is complete. The album ends as it began. With a simple tone similar to a small source of energy. The universe has been created and we are watching the stars again. An eternal cycle?
