On the Guarding of the Heart

Wide glissandos, human whistle, improvisation-like bisbigliandos, humming and singing, playing on the edge of silence... all this shapes the sound of unnatural, echoing beauty. The main theme of "On the Guarding of the Heart" is the need to return into oneself, to descent with the intel- lect in to the depths of the heart, to guard it and to seek there the hidden treasure of the inner kingdom. The music is stimulated by reading of the 'Philokalia' - it is about a hard-achieved detachment, stillness and watch- fulness, it is about solitude and exile.