In 1970 Péter Eötvös spent half a year in Japan where he performed as a member of Karlheinz Stockhausen's ensemble in the German pavilion at the World Expo in Osaka. The encounter with Japanese culture, specifically with Zen Buddhism, had a great effect on him. The fundamental idea of The Sequences of the Wind is one of Zen's complementary contrasts: stillness in movement - movement in stillness. It was inspired by the Japanese landscape and Japanese gardens (the rain, the wind, the sound of sto...

•  1.
•  Windstille I
•  2.
•  Drei Sequenzen des Bergwindes
•  3.
•  Sieben Sequenzen des Wirbelwindes
•  4.
•  Sequenz des Morgenwindes
•  5.
•  Vier Seguenzen des Seewindes - Nordwind
•  6.
•  Vier Sequenzen des Seewindes - Südwind
•  7.
•  Ost - Westwind
•  8.
•  Windstille II