Elements 35: Bromine is the twenty-eighth album in the series of music on the Elements, a very large work in progress consisting of electronically/digitally created architectural music compositions by Oscar van Dillen.

The cover art in the Elements series consists of color inverted pencil drawings made by the composer.

A word of warning: after careful listening, the world around you may not sound the same any longer.

The work on this album was created, composed, recorded, and produced October 2023 – January 2024. All works, cover art and booklet of this album were created by Oscar van Dillen.

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The challenge with innovative contemporary music made for listening per se such as this album, lies in a challenge to connect freely, and personally go through the 4 steps of open perception and appreciation, without a priori do’s and don’ts, without expectations but with memories, with a sense of exploration as in starting a new novel or unknown movie without spoilers:

1. Observe – hear everything, don’t be distracted, be aware of what happens in the various registers of time, tone, timbre, space, and volume (the range of each is much larger than with instrumental music): try to imprint what you hear into memory, ask yourself what is it objectively that I heard?
2. Evaluate – question your perception, can you hear the form distinctly enough, some elements may be harder to hear, are there some sounds that affect you emotionally or even physically: observe and evaluate the effect of it.
3. Interpret – observe your mind creating associations of its own: they are yours and not in the music itself, yet are valid responses created by the music in you personally.
4. Appreciate – open your ears and mind and forget the impoverished listening experience of mainstream music.

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