Podgorica, Doclea (City Walls of Roman Doclea), Montenegro
An abandoned Roman city. The ruins of a place where copper once rang, deals were made, olives were traded, promises were sold, and people sold themselves.
We arrived too late. Everything had already been taken apart. All that remained was to play.
At the center of the ancient forum stands the Music of the Spheres, an instrument created by the artist in response to the work of Johannes Kepler. While celestial harmony remained a metaphor for many, Kepler was the first to calculate the actual musical intervals generated by the motion of the planets.
Our instrument speaks with the voice of Mars — the planet of dissonance. Between Mars and Jupiter, Kepler identified the ratio 18:19, a fracture in the harmony of the cosmos. Centuries later, the asteroid belt was discovered precisely there — a break in the celestial choir.
Kepler searched for music in the heavens. We allowed it to sound on Earth, among the ruins of the ancient forum, where stones became resonators and the wind became the score.
We are still trying to sell ourselves, but we no longer know to whom.
Like any commodity, sound disappears faster than memory.