Arnulf Herrmann’s music, recorded by the Ensemble Modern for this Super Audio CD (stereo and 5.1 versions) unfolds as multi-layered, multi-dimensional formative processes whose strands interweave like lines in a plot. And just as every plot has characters, the processes in his music are based on sharply defined shapes. Those shapes are distorted and bent, they shatter and implode – in short, they appear as bodies impacted by a force, which thereby assumes material form and becomes perceivable.