Elements 53: Iodine is the twenty-ninth 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 conceived of, composed, created, recorded, post-produced and mastered January – May 2024.

All works, cover art and booklet of this album were created by Oscar van Dillen, additional images from Wikimedia Commons.

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All of us are being conditioned not to use our senses to the full, neglecting and discarding much of the information they provide us with, sometimes we are even told, asked or taught, not to trust our very own perception. Our sight, touch, taste, smell, and especially hearing can however perform much better than they are challenged to do in common situations in the modern world, flooded as it is by media that tend to replace the experience of the world. The works of van Dillen present a challenge to the willing listeners who want to discover what their hearing can do, and to develop their capacities for hearing, waking up from the boring drones of mass-produced mainstream commercial auditory merchandise.

“Music”, often reduced to a mere inciter of emotions, can recapture its delicate and deep thoughts. The music of van Dillen embarks on a perceptual journey, searching for the primal musical power, away from today’s formalized recombined standard forms, techniques, and sounds. This music acquires its possible meanings and stories, pictural associations and emotions, on its own artistic terms.

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