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'For me, this means that from the moment you wake until the second you fall asleep, music (whether yours or someone else's) spins in your brain's circumvolutions and jumps from neuron to neuron. That's almost a curse, even though I'm comforted by knowing I share the ability to hear and perceive something that many cannot. I personally can't listen to music without analysing it. I was born with perfect pitch and I cannot switch it off.'

This is surely most useful as Rui dos Reis lives between Connecticut in the USA surrounded by majestic trees

and Fully in Canton Valais, Switzerland (a farm/stables renovation project he is successfully accomplishing), surrounded by majestic Alps.

His many flights to and from home bases or concerts provide him with hours of in-flight composition time. He is working at present on the finishing touches of a composition for the Greenwich High School Band (CT, USA).

'It took me fifty years to realise, and I'm quoting -- "we are the long searched missing link between apes and man". The path is indeed long. Hypocrisy has ruled the world for millennia, which appear, sadly, too have been too short a time span for mankind to have learned its lesson. You are judged for what you have, not for what you are. That's why I could not have composed the Sermon of Gaïa before now (2007).

'I wrote the Cantata in 1995, as some kind of precursor to the much more violent language of the Sermon. I try to confront those who still believe in myths. It's primordial to remain open-minded not just passive, like a brain-washed pawn, in a position of eternally blind reverence to some ideology or other.'

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