22/03/2009 - MaerzMusik, Berlin (Germany), Juedisches Museum, Glashof - Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Natalia Pschenitschnikova, Fedor Lednev (conductor)
"Engrams are a hypothetical means by which memory traces are stored as biophysical or biochemical changes in the brain (and other neural tissue) in response to external stimuli." (Wikipedia)
Listening to a musical oeuvre we listen to ourselves. We give to what we hear characteristics which permit us to fit it into a comfortable, acceptable system. These systems will vary depending on the individual holdings, experience, preferences and expectations. Thus, the field of art is a play with perception models. In every new composition we listen to we inevitably find a hypothetic trace of memory.
