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Series “Le Chant des Éléments” – 3/3
(Serie „Das Lied der Elemente“ – 3/3)
Listen While Watching
🎵 Original music by NiQo
Each painting in the Le Chant des Éléments series comes with its own musical composition, written and digitally arranged by NiQo.
This final piece in the “Chant des Éléments” series sets sail with a marine spirit — adventurous, energetic, and full of forward motion. A steady rhythm anchors the composition, while the strings — led by the cello and layered violins — evoke the movement of sails in the wind and the shifting play of light on water. Unlike the other pieces, this one carries less contemplation and more propulsion: a journey with direction, like a voyage toward distant horizons.
No grand gestures here — only silence, resonance, and the rhythm of living roots. Between the plucked strings, spaces open up for breath, for reflection. The music listens more than it speaks, echoing the role of the two tree-beings standing watch within the painting: steady, silent, fully alive.
The Painting
This composition is dedicated to the element of Water — or perhaps more precisely, to the element of the sky reflected in water. The painting unfolds like a dreamscape, where sails drift across a deep, textured sea, under the watch of golden mountain peaks. The color blue dominates the entire surface, inviting a meditative immersion. Everything is movement and stillness at once — and like the music, the viewer is invited to navigate, not toward a destination, but toward a state of being.
About the Series – Le Chant des Éléments
Le Chant des Éléments is a series of three paintings, each inspired by one of the fundamental forces of nature: fire, earth, and water. Though distinct, all three pieces share a common breath — the element of air — which flows through their textures, symbols, and musical compositions. Golden circles, runes, and abstract geometries evoke timeless movements: a voyage, a presence, a crossing. Each artwork is paired with an original soundtrack composed and digitally arranged by NiQo, blending rhythm and silence into a sensory dialogue. Created specifically for Arte Uster 2025, this series invites the viewer to feel, listen, and follow the quiet resonance between image and sound.