In his book, Natural
Music Creation, the classical composer Peter Huebner writes that the composer
experiences the music in his inner being as a dynamic spatial-temporal process
of development: The musical elements – the sounds, the motifs, the melodies
and the sequences – unfold both temporally and, in accordance with the
laws of musical logic, spatially – and this is testified too by the statements
of our great classical composers.
The conventional performance style with its sounding “orchestra-apparatus”
fixed in space has not so far done justice to this truth of the spatial-temporal
development of the music in the consciousness of the composer. The reason
for this failure is due to the fact that the conventional performance practice
has hitherto restricted itself to presenting in the acoustical realm –
in regard to the spatial-temporal development – merely the seating arrangement
of the orchestra: a fact, which is not even designated in the score, since
it does not attach any musical significance worth mentioning to the classical
composer.
Thus, it is not even surprising when confined to the conventional static performance
style the conductor and the musician eventually reach for new inappropriate
means of communicating the musical content, as, for example, the mimicking
display of feelings through gesticulation or the optical display of musical
instruments.
Nevertheless, these sorts of optical manipulations do not prove to be intrinsically
musical or adequate means to introduce the deep meaningfulness of the music
to the hearer, who is constrained to assume the roll of an onlooker by these
optical manoeuvres.
A real attempt to do justice to the personal musical evidence can only be
to bring the music to performance in an authentic way. It is the musical statement
that must be revealed to the hearer with musical-technical means, pure and
unadulterated – and not the seating arrangement for the musicians, or
even the mimicking and gesticulating of the conductor.
The latter is actually a modern phenomenon – and not only in word but
also in the actual operations of his Festival Performance Hall in Bayreuth
Richard Wagner for instance let this whole gesticulating apparatus disappear
from the sight of the visitor in favour of the most unadulterated musical
expression possible.
The Dynamic Space-Stereophony® represents a fully new musical
and technical system, both for recording and performance. By the help of the
Dynamic Space-Stereophony® the music is performed directly
in the outer acoustical space in the very same way as it unfolds according
to musical laws spatially in the consciousness of the classical composer –
thus making this spatial unfoldment of the music clearly perceptible for every
listener.
If in comparison with visual representations the acoustical worth of the conventional
style of performance corresponds to a fixed picture, whose single components
are illuminated in succession but are nevertheless motionlessly fixed, than
the Dynamic Space Stereophony® corresponds in its multi-channel
end version to the system of the controlled moving holography.
Today the development of the Dynamic Space-Stereophony® provides
us for the first time in the known history of music with the possibility to
project music audible for everyone into the outer acoustic space in its original
purity and, according to musical logic, in a dynamic musical spatial-temporal
development.
According to the present state of knowledge, this recording and performance
technique of Dynamic Space-Stereophony® represents the technical
perfection of musical “interpretation.” What more would the music
interpreter desire to perform than that which develops audibly and dynamically
in the composer’s realm of musical imagination?
And how differently would the interpreter like to represent it than as it
dynamically developed?
The function of this special music hall is to bring to performance the works
of the classical composer Peter Huebner in Dynamic Space-Stereophony®,
and in so doing, to reveal a new electrifying musical experience to the listener
of our modern age.
Dynamic Space Stereophony®
