Pierre Marie’s intriguing, complex composition is inspired, he says, by "the invisible forces of Nature".
In the 18th century, the German physician Ernst Florens Friedrich Chladni (the inventor of a musical instrument known as the euphon, and the author of a treatise on acoustics) performed an unusual experiment. He took a copper disc, sprinkled it with fine sand and ran a violin bow along its outer edge. The resulting musical vibrations had a surprising side effect: the sand particles organized themselves into geometric patterns, known today as Chladni figures.
"Imagine my astonishment, when I saw what no man had ever seen before" he declared. "A ten- or twelve-pointed star appeared before my eyes". Pierre Marie presents his own interpretation of Chladni’s ' "geometry of sound".
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