A many-colored acoustic dive into psychology, neuroscience and Bach.
Everyone knows Bach. But what is an engram? Experiences leave traces in the brain; those traces are called engrams, and they shape memory.
For the 2023 Freiberg Silbermann Days, Laura Marconi and Gianluca Castelli responded to Johann Sebastian Bach's Clavierübung III and reshaped parts of the so-called organ mass for Sjaella.
Bach motives are intertwined with mechanisms of memory such as dreaming, amnesia, earworms and flashbacks. They appear, disappear, are processed and merge with the unconscious.
Emily Dickinson's 1863 poem The Brain acts as a poetic thread through the approximately 80-minute work.