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Daniel Perret		 Daniel Perret
Jørgen Mortensen has the rare gift to compose - what I would call - 'upper mental music'. It is rare because it takes a special approach of using a good balance between intellectual effort and intuition, left- and right-brain. Most people would have too much intellectual interference caused ultimately by too much emotional interference. Even so, the music in his new sound series can stir up emotions. This is no paradox, since upper mental spaces can only be accessed - by composer, musician or listener - if they have freed themselves from their emotional hangups. The sounds he uses have a metallic and sometimes crystal quality, which again helps contact the upper mental, like bells and singing bowls do. Even if they do convey some beauty, this does not catch our attention for long. Absence of melody, absence both harmonies and rhythm in a usual musical sense allow us - as a tendence - to stay free in our mind and not get drawn into inner emotional movements. His sounds float, ondulating slowly, not unlike this large propeller airplane that plows high up above our house each tuesday. Its sound slowly modulated by the hills and valleys of our landscape. Again, this quality in Jørgens sound series lifts your attention up into the space above your head, bringing calmness and above all 'space' and clarity of thought. It is music for people who want to access an inner (and outer) clarity. This is clearly suitable for selfdevelopment and meditation. It is certainly not music to be heard as background music. It takes your whole attention to be with it. If space ships would 'do' music, it might sound like this.
Daniel Perret is the author of the book "Musikkens indre vej" (Borgen). He teaches a training programme in the use of sound and music in healing, therapy and self development. He works as a music therapist with young autistic, psychotic and disharmonic children at Brive Hospital, Central France.