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Appendix 5.01. Present Moments: GIM-session transcript. EC guided by ET 22 June, 2010Bartok: An Evening in the Village (2’50)
A sky with northern lights. Dancing pixies or elves appear. I am turning the pages of a fairy-tale
book. Northern lights again, an arch swings across the sky, shadows with a golden rim. A court
jester jumps in, fooling about, dressed in red and green. The sky darkens, clouds are gathering. A
beam of light calls forth memories of a candle flame in a Picasso painting.Corigliano: Voyage (8’00)
Another image of a sky with a full moon, beams radiate in circles, like an impressionistic painting.
A luminous boat floats on the surface of the ocean.
(What do you feel in your body?)
I feel warm and vibrating, filled with delight. I remember a painting by Van Gogh – undulating
cornfields. Now it is quiet, the light of dawn appears, golden and pink surfaces and stripes of light,
more and more – again, it is like a book of fairy tales. A new and simple clarity, gentle sounds on a
delicate background. 5’08 The light changes, a few clouds appear and some dark bushes. I am an
observant eye in the landscape, I am a large eye that grows out of a hillside, watching a blue-grey
space of diffuse beauty. The end of the piece is like a sunset.Messiaen: The Garden of Love’s Sleep (10’30)
(Emotional) This music calls forth intense memories of my first great love. I have heard this piece
many times, and I know the composer’s intention: it is a story of a loving couple sleeping on a
riverbank, lulled by gentle nocturnal birdsong. Nevertheless, the music seems novel to me. A
golden clarity, and a silvery percussion which I have not noticed before. 4’41 A fullness of sound
and rising sunbeams, a yearning – this music is about fulfilled love, and also about longing for
love... I have not heard that flute before, it is a colleague of the flute in the previous piece, soaring
as a golden track of light in a dark blue sky. (Are you soaring yourself?) – Yes...
8’15 I recall meeting the composer and his wife in Copenhagen, a touching memory.
It is unbelievable that there is so much music, like a woven texture of thick and thin woollen
threads. There are so many layers, I feel a freedom, being allowed to lean against so many
different threads in the spatial texture. 10’30, end of the piece: I have never noticed that metal
timbre before.Tavener: Lament (2’15)
This is very strange – I recall a metal sculpture I saw on a journey as a very young man – a large
sculpture made out of the tails of aeroplanes - I think it was placed in front of the NATO
headquarters in Brussels. And I hear gentle metallic sounds, like dropletsPärt: Da pacem Domine (5’30)
A large church – and the Heavens which open up. I recall paintings of angels... a wonderful
softness, like the radiating moonbeams in a previous piece. Like Hildegard von Bingen’s painting
which is an opening into a woman...
There is a large group of people – I dont know if they grieve or rejoice – but there is not very much
sorrow. I see faces of women and apostles with beardsTormis: Lullaby (2’45)
Another book of fairy tales for children. A forest in the night, arches of light through the forest. A
Star-Sun is shining in the top of a tall tree. Women are dancing, hand in hand, to and fro, they
remain there, they are not going anywhere.(How do you feel the music?)
Life-giving, radiant – I cannot wish for anything better...