Prayer of the Sea
A composer recounts a dream from his youth that inspired the slow movement of his first string quartet, Prayer of the Sea. The dream, depicting a peaceful dissolution into the sea and wind, symbolized his future death. Decades later, rediscovering a drawing from the quartet's premiere, perfectly capturing the dream’s essence, revived its emotions. Now older, he reflects on the dream’s message: a serene acceptance of life’s inevitable end.
Prayer of the Sea is an audiovisual elegy offering a calm perspective on the universal experience of passing.
Martin Gerigk (*1972) is a composer of contemporary music. His repertoire includes compositions for orchestra and chamber music, as well as several solo concertos. His works are performed both nationally and internationally, including in Korea, Japan, the USA, England, Finland, Austria, and Switzerland. In this context, he collaborates with renowned international soloists and ensembles.
In addition to his compositional work, Gerigk is known for his remarkable audiovisual art and experimental films, which explore the inherent synesthetic connections between sound and visual perception. Beyond creating interwoven landscapes of music, natural sounds, and video sequences, a significant aspect of his art is illustrating the hidden poetry of natural phenomena and scientific concepts.
His experimental films have won several international awards and have been screened at numerous prestigious festivals, some of which are Academy Award qualifying, such as the Seattle International Film Festival, Tirana International Film Festival, Thomas Edison Film Festival, Salerno International Film Festival, Asolo Art Film Festival, Montecatini International Short Film Festival, USA Film Festival, Festival International du Film de Nancy, International Digital Arts Festival Videoformes, Girona Film Festival, Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, Thess International Short Film Festival, New Jersey Film Festival, Humboldt International Film Fest, Sydney International Film Festival or Fargo Film Festival.