NEURONIUMNEURONIUM
"PSYKYA"
Tuxedo Music
Album # 25 in Michel Huygen's career is called Psykya and appears signed as Neuronium. Although the works that the artist releases under this signature respond to the musical concept of Neuronium, whereas those he releases with his own name reflect his more personal ideas, in this new work both aspects are fused into one. The style is Neuronium's, yet at the same time, as Huygen himself admits, this is the most personal album he has recorded up to date. It can be defined as some sort of personal diary in a musical format corresponding to the period from June 1996 to February 1997, the time when the artist composed and recorded the album. The main nucleus of Psykya is formed by two long suites of half an hour each: "Geomagnetica" and "Neuromagnetica". Their titles hint at the questions that have inspired Huygen to compose them, and also the character each one has. "Geomagnetica" re-creates the magnetic processes of the Earth; It is terrestrial electronic music, that seems to evoke the most spectacular physic natural phenomena of our world, but with an important romantic charge as if emphasizing the beauty and fragility of the Earth. A part of this piece incorporates a sequencer of powerful, rocky timbres. "Neuromagnetica" takes us to the mysteries of the interior of the brain, a question that no doubt must have once inspired the creation of the name "Neuronium". The music of this second suite is more disquieting, oneiric. It seems to re- create the functioning of the neuron spiderweb, as well as approach the inscrutable enigmas of the origin of the Psyche. The album is complemented with "Internauta", a symphonic piece lasting seven minutes devoted to another universe of electromagnetic processes: the one of communications in Internet.
Jorge Munnshe
