Music for the film 'Chakrenreisen'by the digital artist Michael Guzei

"All incense & dream catchers"

MG7 (2002)
Music for the film 'Chakrenreisen'by the digital artist Michael Guzei
The original brief was for seven Chakra videos, each about ten
minutes long with 21 x 24 second morphs. Each piece of music should
be based around one pitch which rises by step through the seven
films. Of course this changed during the production but the basics
remained. Using a colour to pitch/key relationship chart I first
designed for 'Rothko' (1982) I came up with the following:
colour/pitches original brief
#1 - red = B maj. (1 pitch, B) - low frequency / slow beating / earth
- stability [linked to #3]
#2 - orange (+red) = Db maj. (2 pitches (3), Db,Ab, / +B for red) -
water / sexual energy [linked to #4]
#3 - yellow = Eb maj. (3 pitches, Eb,G,Bb) - sun / solar plexus /
center of things [linked to #1]
#4 - green (+pink) = F maj. (4 pitches, F,A,C,E / incl. E for pink) -
heart / love [linked to #2]
#5 - blue = G maj. (5 pitches, G,B,D,F#,A) - communication / self
expression [linked to #6/#7]
#6 - violet = A maj. (6 pitches, A,C#,E,G#,B,D) - third eye /
intuition / dreams [linked to #5/#7]
#7 - white/ultra-violet = A# min.(C# maj.) (7 pitches,
A#,C#,F,G#,C,D#,F#) - out of body [linked to #5/#6]
The first showing of 'Chakrenreisen' was in Vienna on 24 Oct. 2002.
I first worked with Michael Guzei on the short film "Sprache des
Wassers" in 1997.