These many voices in the river

Siddhartha listened… Often before, he had heard all this, these many

voices in the river, today it sounded new. Already, he could no longer

tell the many voices apart, not the happy ones from the weeping

ones, not the ones of children from those of men…the lamentation of

yearning and the laughter of the knowledgeable one, the scream of

rage and the moaning of the dying ones, everything was one,

everything was intertwined and connected, entangled a thousand

times. And everything together, all voices, all goals, all yearning, all

suffering, all pleasure, all that was good and evil, all of this together

was the world…the flow of events…the music of life.

Herman Hesse

Performed by AKELA Quartet

Violin: Gustav Ranum, Clara Glasdam

Viola: Kirsten Wilbrandt Kjær

Cello: Oskar Reuben Friis-Hansen

Recording: Cintia Gómez Díez, Daniel Wander

PULSAR Festival 2025

Studiescenen, The Royal Danish Academy of Music

1. March 2025