From Scelsi to Haas

From Giacinto Scelsi to Georg Friedrich Haas

Entering the sound

If Debussy opened the door to musical colour, Scelsi walked inside the sound itself.

Scelsi’s music often revolves around a single note, explored from within. Tiny changes of pitch, pressure, and timbre create an intense inner world. Melody and harmony step aside; what remains is listening as concentration. His music does not develop — it reveals.

Haas takes this insight and expands it into large-scale works. His music explores harmonic space with extraordinary precision, often using microtonal relationships that lie between the notes of the piano. Yet the experience is not technical or cerebral. Like Scelsi, Haas asks the listener to surrender to sound, to let time stretch, and to experience music as a physical and emotional environment.

This connection shows another essential aspect of CCM: it is not always about complexity or innovation for its own sake. Sometimes it is about going deeper, trusting that sustained attention can open new forms of intensity and meaning.