Elements37: Rubidium is the twenty-third album in this 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 June-August 2023. All works, cover art and booklet of this album were created by Oscar van Dillen.

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While the music of Natrium resembles a somewhat singular obstinate idea travelling through various spaces, each time adapting to its environment, it always has an undercurrent of time, suggested fast rhythm, and even haste and a sense of speed and hurrying. The tempo of the music of Natrium resembles the Jazz concept of forward motion (fast music without fixed structures in time). Such pulsations, sometimes resembling rhythm, but always with a certain drive, play a role in all the alkali elements, most of all in Caesium, the atomic resonances of which have been used in extremely precise atomic clocks since the second half of the 20^th century. In the music of Rubidium further use of aforementioned canvases is made for the third and last time, leading yet again to another, new music. Here, next to special sounds, especially the spaciousness is created by a variety of tiny partial delays in mid and/or side channel audio, leading to subtle phase shifts enhancing the depth of the musical experience, which once again is about sound masses in motion rather than tones or “pitch materials”.

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