The sound of eggshells

The eggshell panel Monade 360 has become the image for the cover of a musical album Rosary of composer Christoph Enzel. The album is also published on Spotify. A close-up of Monade 360 is also used for the cover of a paper volume of ‘Drei Wagner-Paraphrasen’ which is available at Musikverlag Chili Notes.

Album Rosary with image of eggshell artwork Monade 360 on Spotify.

Christoph Enzel is the tenor saxophonist of the Clair-obscur Saxophone Quartet and member of the saxophone orchestra Selmer Saxharmonic with whom he won an Echo Klassik in 2010. His post-avantgarde band is Hydroglisseur. Since 2013 he is the saxophonist in the ensemble UnitedBerlin. As a soloitst and orchestral saxophonist, he is a regular guest at the Berliner Philharmonic, MDR Radio Orchestra Leipzig, New Westphalian Philharmonic and NDR Radio Orchestra Hamburg. As a lecturer, he gives workshops for the German Brass Academy and the Jeunesses Musicales. He has arranged and composed about 100 works for a variety of instrumentations. In addition to classical chamber music he creates jazz arrangements, theater music, music for children and saxophone textbooks.

Monade was first shown at the art exhibition in honor of the 70th anniversary of KCB at the Kranenburgh Museum in Bergen, The Netherlands. Shortly afterwards the artwork was sold in 2017 to art collectors De Heus.