I created the music of Vertigo in an inter-century collaboration with Monteverdi. Claudio Monteverdi played a major role in development of form and melody. He can be seen as the bridging artist between the Renaissance and Baroque eras, morphing Italian music into something unheard, something to be studied and admired in future centuries. In his compositions existing styles turn into new ones, where musical languages melt and reconstitute themselves. I took as reference and inspiration his three unimaginably beautiful vocal pieces to create the core for this new audio-visual artwork. I then composed three corresponding new tracks to link the 17th century musical material of Monteverdi with my contemporary music. 

The technology we used to master this music allowed me to render a distinctive tone for Vertigo, where the space is in constant change and the audience is experiencing the ground being rotated and lifted in an unsystematic manner. When Vertigo is on, we are confronted by an elastic, liquid time, in which the music moves both onwards, but also backwards. The positioning of each musical element is meant to work in juxtaposition to each other. This creates a balanced chaos, like structured choreographies. With this approach, music, perhaps one of the most abstract forms of art, alters our senses in most unusual ways. One should be ready to let go of the feeling of time and surely leave behind the rules of math, when entering the world of Vertigo. 

The whole purpose of creating such enigmatic and puzzling work, which interferes with our fundamental, sensual orientations, is to take us out of our comfort while listening. When it comes to time, we pursue our daily lives with overly auto-controlled behaviours, without even noticing how computerised we can act, despite our spiritual qualities. It is not only refreshing, but also significantly important for us 21st century human beings to be able to lose the sense of time, in order to just be; as the essence of life.