Susanne KogLer, GRAZ Sounds of the Universe On
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slide1. Susanne KogLer, GRAZ Sounds of the Universe On Celestial Harmonies and their Musical Transformation<br>
slide3. https://www.radioeins.de/musik/top_100/2024/out-of-space/universum_die_top_100.html (27.12.2025)
https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/klassik-entdecken/alte-musik/stichwort-sphaerenharmonie-100.html (27.12.2025)
https://www.porgy.at/events/11918/ (27.12.2025)
https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/musik-weltall-urknall-sphaerenmusik-podcast-suzanna-randall-100.html (27.12.2025)
https://www.egofm.de/radiowelt/playlist-themenwoche-space (27.12.2025)
https://www.musikkritik.org/2001/08/musik-als-welt-raum-von-der-musikalische-kosmologie-zur-phantastischen-musik-des-schwebens/ (27.12.2025)
https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/klassik-entdecken/space-night-weltall-musik-listicle-100.html (27.12.2025)
https://www.concerti.at/vermischtes-at/waltz-into-space-in-wien/ (27.12.2025)
https://de.euronews.com/next/2023/04/27/nasa-veroffentlicht-spektakulares-album-mit-klangen-des-universums (27.12.2025)
Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos – Mensch und Universum | Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (27.12.2025)
https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/klassik-entdecken/terry-riley-komponiert-fuer-die-nasa-was-heute-geschah-26102002-100.html (27.12.2025)
https://planetarium-bochum.de/de_DE/program/klangreise-durch-die-galaxien-eine-musikal.1353946 (27.12.2025)<br>
slide4. COSTANZA
[…] Lungi assai
É l'Africa da noi. Sei nell'immenso
Tempio del ciel.
FORTUNA
Non lo conosci a tante
Che ti splendono intorno
Lucidissime stelle? A quel che ascolti
Insolito concento.
Dele mobili sfere? A quel che vedi
Di lucido zaffiro
Orbe maggior che le rapisce in giro?
SCIPIONE
E chi mai tra le sfere, o dèe, produce
Un contento sì armonico e sonoro?
COSTANZA
L'istessa ch'è fra lorto
Di moto e di misura
Proporzionata ineguaglianza. Insieme
Urtansi nel girar; rende ciascuna
Suon dall'altro distinto;
E si forma di tutti un suon concorde.
Viarie così le corde
Son d'una cetra; e pur ne tempra in guisa
E l'orecchio e la man l'acuto e il grave,
Che dan, percosse, un'armonia soave.
Questo mirabil nodo,
Questa ragione arcana
Che i dissimili accorda,
Proporzion s'appella, ordine e norma
Universal delle create cose.
Questa è quel che nascose,
D'altro saper misterioso raggio,
Entro i numeri suoi di Samo il saggio.
SCIPIONE
Ma un armonia si grande
Perchè non giunge a noi? Perchè non l'ode
Chi vive lá nella terrestre sede?
COSTANZA
Troppo il poter de'vostri sensi eccede. CONSTANCY No. Africa is a very long way away from us. You are in the immense temple of heaven.
FORTUNE Can you not recognise it
from so many radiant stars that shine
around you, from the unaccustomed harmony
of the moving spheres that you can hear,
from that great globe
of gleaming sapphire that you can see,
which forces them into orbit?
Â
SCIPIO And who, o goddesses, creates from the spheres such a melodious and sonorous harmony?
CONSTANCY That same inequality of proportion which exists between them in movement and in size. Together
they collide in their orbit; each gives out
a different sound from the next,
and from all of them a harmonious sound is formed.
The strings of a lyre are likewise different,
and yet in the same way both ear and hand
moderate the treble and the bass,
producing, when struck, a sweet harmony.
This miraculous combination,
this mysterious ratio
that unites dissimilar things,
is called proportion, the order
and universal principle of all creation.
This is what lay hidden,
the mysterious ray of a higher knowledge,
within the numbers of the sage of Samos.
SCIPIO
But why does such a glorious harmony
not reach us? Why is it not heard
by those living in the realm of earth?
Â
CONSTANCY
It too far exceeds the scope of your senses Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione /Scipione's Dream (excerpt from the libretto)<br>
slide5. 4. Entrückung
Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten.
Mir blassen durch das dunkel die gesichter
Die freundlich eben noch sich zu mir drehten.
Und bäum und wege die ich liebte fahlen
Dass ich sie kaum mehr kenne und du lichter
Geliebter schatten – rufer meiner qualen –
Bist nun erloschen ganz in tiefern gluten
Um nach dem taumel streitenden getobes
Mit einem frommen schauer anzumuten.
Ich löse mich in tönen, kreisend, webend,
Ungründigen danks und unbenamten lobes
Dem grossen atem wunschlos mich ergebend.
[...]
Ich fühle wie ich über letzter wolke
In einem meer kristallnen glanzes schwimme –
Ich bin ein funke nur vom heiligen feuer
Ich bin ein dröhnen nur der heiligen Stimme. 4. Entrückung
I feel air from another planet.
The faces that once turned to me in friendship
Pale in the darkness before me.
And trees and paths I loved grow wan
So that I hardly know them, and your light,
Beloved shadow – summoner of my torment –
Is now extinguished quite in deeper burning flames,
In order, after the frenzy of warring confusion,
To appear in holy awe and yearning.
I dissolve into tones, circling, weaving,
In groundless thanks and nameless praise,
Surrendering without a wish to the mighty breathing.
[...]
I feel myself floating above the furthest cloud
In a sea of crystal radiance –
I am but a spark of holy fire,
I am but a thundering echo of the holy voice. Arnold Schönberg: 2nd String Quartet in F-sharp minor op. 10 (Excerpt from the text by Stefan George)<br>
slide6. ATLAS Eclipticalis<br>
slide7. Fly me to the moon
Let me swing up there with those stars
Let me see what the spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me
Fill my heart with song
Let me sing forevermore
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
[…]<br>
slide8. https://youtu.be/BFcSr3F7CYo?t=10<br>
slide9. "To philosophise in the face of the vastness and incomprehensibility of the cosmos. Feeling small and insignificant on the one hand, and on the other hand being moved by the megalomaniacal attempt to understand the universe – an endeavour that motivated our ancestors to develop natural philosophy and whose scientific continuation in the measurement and modelling of the cosmos was only made possible by international cooperation, which allowed national stubbornness to be forgotten."
(Die Zeit. 17 / 2025, page 31)<br>
slide10. W. A. Mozart Il sogno di Scipione https://youtu.be/qklOgye7yl8
Gustav Holst Die Planeten https://youtu.be/HP5xhyPn58U
Arnold Schönberg 2. Streichquartetts in fis-moll op. 10
Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten https://youtu.be/-tByQZOEMOg
John Cage Atlas eclipticalis https://youtu.be/epBkVgfoXNk
Iannis Xenakis Pléïades https://youtu.be/dqtFGaHcWRk
Gerard Grisey's Le noir de l'etoile https://youtu.be/py-GyzXOHn0?list=RDpy-GyzXOHn0
Elisabeth Schimana Sternenstaub https://elise.at/produkt/Sternenstaub
Terry Riley: Sun Rings https://youtu.be/GUlMyYuEyXw
Bart Howard Fly me to the moon https://youtu.be/6r0IHZUCcCc<br>
slide11. Thank you for your attention!<br>
slide3. https://www.radioeins.de/musik/top_100/2024/out-of-space/universum_die_top_100.html (27.12.2025)
https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/klassik-entdecken/alte-musik/stichwort-sphaerenharmonie-100.html (27.12.2025)
https://www.porgy.at/events/11918/ (27.12.2025)
https://www.br-klassik.de/aktuell/news-kritik/musik-weltall-urknall-sphaerenmusik-podcast-suzanna-randall-100.html (27.12.2025)
https://www.egofm.de/radiowelt/playlist-themenwoche-space (27.12.2025)
https://www.musikkritik.org/2001/08/musik-als-welt-raum-von-der-musikalische-kosmologie-zur-phantastischen-musik-des-schwebens/ (27.12.2025)
https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/klassik-entdecken/space-night-weltall-musik-listicle-100.html (27.12.2025)
https://www.concerti.at/vermischtes-at/waltz-into-space-in-wien/ (27.12.2025)
https://de.euronews.com/next/2023/04/27/nasa-veroffentlicht-spektakulares-album-mit-klangen-des-universums (27.12.2025)
Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos – Mensch und Universum | Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe (27.12.2025)
https://www.br-klassik.de/themen/klassik-entdecken/terry-riley-komponiert-fuer-die-nasa-was-heute-geschah-26102002-100.html (27.12.2025)
https://planetarium-bochum.de/de_DE/program/klangreise-durch-die-galaxien-eine-musikal.1353946 (27.12.2025)<br>
slide4. COSTANZA
[…] Lungi assai
É l'Africa da noi. Sei nell'immenso
Tempio del ciel.
FORTUNA
Non lo conosci a tante
Che ti splendono intorno
Lucidissime stelle? A quel che ascolti
Insolito concento.
Dele mobili sfere? A quel che vedi
Di lucido zaffiro
Orbe maggior che le rapisce in giro?
SCIPIONE
E chi mai tra le sfere, o dèe, produce
Un contento sì armonico e sonoro?
COSTANZA
L'istessa ch'è fra lorto
Di moto e di misura
Proporzionata ineguaglianza. Insieme
Urtansi nel girar; rende ciascuna
Suon dall'altro distinto;
E si forma di tutti un suon concorde.
Viarie così le corde
Son d'una cetra; e pur ne tempra in guisa
E l'orecchio e la man l'acuto e il grave,
Che dan, percosse, un'armonia soave.
Questo mirabil nodo,
Questa ragione arcana
Che i dissimili accorda,
Proporzion s'appella, ordine e norma
Universal delle create cose.
Questa è quel che nascose,
D'altro saper misterioso raggio,
Entro i numeri suoi di Samo il saggio.
SCIPIONE
Ma un armonia si grande
Perchè non giunge a noi? Perchè non l'ode
Chi vive lá nella terrestre sede?
COSTANZA
Troppo il poter de'vostri sensi eccede. CONSTANCY No. Africa is a very long way away from us. You are in the immense temple of heaven.
FORTUNE Can you not recognise it
from so many radiant stars that shine
around you, from the unaccustomed harmony
of the moving spheres that you can hear,
from that great globe
of gleaming sapphire that you can see,
which forces them into orbit?
Â
SCIPIO And who, o goddesses, creates from the spheres such a melodious and sonorous harmony?
CONSTANCY That same inequality of proportion which exists between them in movement and in size. Together
they collide in their orbit; each gives out
a different sound from the next,
and from all of them a harmonious sound is formed.
The strings of a lyre are likewise different,
and yet in the same way both ear and hand
moderate the treble and the bass,
producing, when struck, a sweet harmony.
This miraculous combination,
this mysterious ratio
that unites dissimilar things,
is called proportion, the order
and universal principle of all creation.
This is what lay hidden,
the mysterious ray of a higher knowledge,
within the numbers of the sage of Samos.
SCIPIO
But why does such a glorious harmony
not reach us? Why is it not heard
by those living in the realm of earth?
Â
CONSTANCY
It too far exceeds the scope of your senses Mozart: Il sogno di Scipione /Scipione's Dream (excerpt from the libretto)<br>
slide5. 4. Entrückung
Ich fühle luft von anderem planeten.
Mir blassen durch das dunkel die gesichter
Die freundlich eben noch sich zu mir drehten.
Und bäum und wege die ich liebte fahlen
Dass ich sie kaum mehr kenne und du lichter
Geliebter schatten – rufer meiner qualen –
Bist nun erloschen ganz in tiefern gluten
Um nach dem taumel streitenden getobes
Mit einem frommen schauer anzumuten.
Ich löse mich in tönen, kreisend, webend,
Ungründigen danks und unbenamten lobes
Dem grossen atem wunschlos mich ergebend.
[...]
Ich fühle wie ich über letzter wolke
In einem meer kristallnen glanzes schwimme –
Ich bin ein funke nur vom heiligen feuer
Ich bin ein dröhnen nur der heiligen Stimme. 4. Entrückung
I feel air from another planet.
The faces that once turned to me in friendship
Pale in the darkness before me.
And trees and paths I loved grow wan
So that I hardly know them, and your light,
Beloved shadow – summoner of my torment –
Is now extinguished quite in deeper burning flames,
In order, after the frenzy of warring confusion,
To appear in holy awe and yearning.
I dissolve into tones, circling, weaving,
In groundless thanks and nameless praise,
Surrendering without a wish to the mighty breathing.
[...]
I feel myself floating above the furthest cloud
In a sea of crystal radiance –
I am but a spark of holy fire,
I am but a thundering echo of the holy voice. Arnold Schönberg: 2nd String Quartet in F-sharp minor op. 10 (Excerpt from the text by Stefan George)<br>
slide6. ATLAS Eclipticalis<br>
slide7. Fly me to the moon
Let me swing up there with those stars
Let me see what the spring is like
On Jupiter and Mars
In other words, hold my hand
In other words, baby, kiss me
Fill my heart with song
Let me sing forevermore
You are all I long for
All I worship and adore
[…]<br>
slide8. https://youtu.be/BFcSr3F7CYo?t=10<br>
slide9. "To philosophise in the face of the vastness and incomprehensibility of the cosmos. Feeling small and insignificant on the one hand, and on the other hand being moved by the megalomaniacal attempt to understand the universe – an endeavour that motivated our ancestors to develop natural philosophy and whose scientific continuation in the measurement and modelling of the cosmos was only made possible by international cooperation, which allowed national stubbornness to be forgotten."
(Die Zeit. 17 / 2025, page 31)<br>
slide10. W. A. Mozart Il sogno di Scipione https://youtu.be/qklOgye7yl8
Gustav Holst Die Planeten https://youtu.be/HP5xhyPn58U
Arnold Schönberg 2. Streichquartetts in fis-moll op. 10
Ich fühle Luft von anderem Planeten https://youtu.be/-tByQZOEMOg
John Cage Atlas eclipticalis https://youtu.be/epBkVgfoXNk
Iannis Xenakis Pléïades https://youtu.be/dqtFGaHcWRk
Gerard Grisey's Le noir de l'etoile https://youtu.be/py-GyzXOHn0?list=RDpy-GyzXOHn0
Elisabeth Schimana Sternenstaub https://elise.at/produkt/Sternenstaub
Terry Riley: Sun Rings https://youtu.be/GUlMyYuEyXw
Bart Howard Fly me to the moon https://youtu.be/6r0IHZUCcCc<br>
slide11. Thank you for your attention!<br>