With "Star Wars" outer space has become an artistical challenge for both... For Tomita in his electronic interpretation of John Williams' "Star Wars Theme" at a gigantic electronics performance in Budokan (Japan) and for Ron Hays, who attracted an audience of over a hundred thousand spectators with his "Star-Wars-Concerts".
Also the audience in the Main Hall of the Brucknerhaus will be guided through outer space by Tomita and Hays: The spectator is surrounded by music from a special fivechannel pyramid system invented by Tomita. The opus starts with a Hommage to Anton Bruckner, with Bruckner's music, symbolizing the enormous extension of outer space. Isao Tomita about his impressions connected with this event:
"A storm rages in the ocean near Bermuda - the area of mysterious disappearances of many ships and aircrafts, the dreaded Devil's Triangle. In the mist of the storm something approaches from the sky guided by an eerie signal from below the water. It is a craft from outer space - an UFO. The fantasy conjures up a gigantic pyramid built on the bottom of the sea by a highly civilized ancient people. They have contact with outer space and guide the UFO to the pyramid. The story unfolds through the moods of the music: Friendly encounter, exploration of the earth and the sky, exchange of information and finally revelation of the way to achieve a super-dimensioned world and we are left with sweet melody once more as the UFO departs into space ... - all of which we are drawn into by and experience in our fantasy, through the stimulus of sound and Ron Hays' Video-Art.
Perhaps this is a new concept.. Science Fiction in sound. Can we overcome through this the realities of everyday's life, our time and physical limitation and contact our fantasy, our imagination? We can, and thus we are able to reach out into the limitless space, to touch the super-intellect, be any object or being and cast ourselves, all powerful, into the universe."
