Living impressions and synthesized expressions: this soundtrack album features eight synthesizer works performed by composer Flint Juventino Beppe, varying from dynamic film music to dramatic and surreal electro acoustic works. These are composer and producer Flint Juventino Beppe´s personal notes on the material on the album «Pictures before an Exhibition» 1. «Pictures before an Exhibition» Op.30 (1997) [A commission written for Ragnhild Monsen's main exhibition at Festspillene in Bergen 1997] An exhibition might be an influential experience. This music came to life before such an exhibition, after coming to terms with the day's arrival and departure. 2. «The Deal» Op.19 (1993) What is it to trust? If founded upon the notion of belief, of promise, there is a possibility that this deal will be broken. 3. «Moods from Røros» Op.31 (1993) The town Røros in Norway emanates a unique atmosphere - embracing the truly beautiful and frightening at one and the same time. 4. «Inner Seas» Op.16 (1993) There are great oceans and lakes inside the head, absorbing everything that is going on when you are awake. When the night falls, it is time to work through all impressions. 5. «I stepped on a UFO» Op.23 (1994) A stroll might turn out to be very eventful. Suddenly, when you think you have stepped on a stone, you might get unexpected company. 6. «Eyes in the Air» Op.48 (1999) To be watched by a world with eyes dull or excited, is perhaps part and parcel of a normal day. This piece of work contains different sequences, emanating from many years of the composer's reflections. 7. «Death Dripping» Op.25 (1996) As long as there is Life, Death will be dripping. Life and Death are closely connected. 8. «Life Giggling» Op.49 (1999) Could it be that depression is euphoria turned upside-down, and vice versa? Life might be giggling whilst watching you all wrapped up in your own misery and ignorance. Who can steal your heartbeats away? 20©14 Composer AS (Ltd.) COMPOSER BIOGRAPHY Flint Juventino Beppe and music - an inseparable entity Composing and creative art is a lifestyle for Flint Juventino Beppe (b.1973). This has never been a conscious choice; it had to be this way. As long as he can remember, music has flowed through his mind – and Beppe's lifestyle has been greatly influenced by this. - It is really as simple as it is complicated - I breathe in what life has to offer, and breathe out what I have to offer life. I have given up trying to grasp what actually happens in the process from impression to expression. Flint Juventino Beppe He started creating music in his childhood; everything from songs, to works for different instrumentations, electronic music and orchestral works. Currently, Beppe's catalogue of works comprises about 200 titles, more than 80 opuses, including commissions and works for piano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, double bass, string orchestra and orchestral works like flute concertos, piano concertos and symphonic poems. Beppe has also written ballet music, electro acoustic works, film soundtracks and songs with lyrics. He has contributed as composer on a selection of albums. Flute Mystery (2L), featuring Vladimir Ashkenazy and Beppe as conductors, was Grammy nominated in 2010. The sequel Remote Galaxy (2L) was released worldwide in November 2013. This album features conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy, Emily Beynon, Mark van de Wiel, Ralph Rousseau and Philharmonia Orchestra. Beppe's works have been performed around the world, e.g. the USA (The Kennedy Center), Russia, England (St. John's, Smith Square), Finland and Japan. Collaborations with and performances by Philharmonia Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra, Emily Beynon, Mark van de Wiel, Sir James Galway, Ralph Rousseau, Leonard Slatkin and Vladimir Ashkenazy. Beppe is diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome and Asperger's syndrome. The social limitations often connected to these syndromes might explain why Beppe has no conventional musical education. Flint Juventino Beppe's artistic expression is a constant advocacy of the individual's free will and personal autonomy – without irrelevant intrusion of the private sphere. The documentary Exhaling Music tells of Beppe's intense and life-threatening breach with religion when he was 17. His childhood religion could never follow him into adulthood. Having no political preferences, Beppe has nevertheless always felt powerful liberalistic undertones occupying his mind: an esteem for individual freedom permeating all his art. Hence, Beppe is constantly dreaming of a world without religions and violating politics. Beppe is also a scriptwriter, director and producer for an on-going art film production labelled Symbiophonies™ Memberships: Deutscher Komponistenverband, GEMA and GVL. - I call the art I make "fingerprints", because they do represent my musical or artistic version of the impressions I have inhaled. I see these fingerprints as my lifesavers because they help me articulate what I experience, and they relieve some of my inner pressure. These musical fingerprints are also based on my underlying wish for universal and personal freedom for every living creature on this earth. Flint Juventino Beppe