Nature is taking the stage. The sunset starts to fade on a cloudy summer day next to the Main River in an industrial neighborhood of Frankfurt, Germany. The main artist of the festival is an ecologist by day and DJ by night, Dominik Eulberg. Calm snare sounds mixed with a decaying beat like a ball bouncing freely against the floor fill in the atmosphere. Some people in the crowd recognize the pattern and start to cheer, raising their arms up to the sky as if a Mass is just about to begin. A man with sunglasses says to the person next to him: “Dude! It’s finally Dominik.” A tall man in a black shirt appears behind the music box. Behind his blond hair that looks like golden thin vines falling over his face, he smiles and raises both arms while the crowd cheers. He looks down at the console with lightning lanes and knobs that control the volume, tempo and sound effects. Listening through his headphones, he starts to turn knobs as if trying to unlock a safe; the tempo starts to speed up, ratcheting the intensity of the music until the safe opens up wide, releasing a beat drop. The energy is in the air while people dance and nod as if talking in a language that does not need words to be understood. Music and nature have had a happy, everlasting marriage. Whether as part of the creativity process or eventually by adding sounds that make up parts…This article was originally published on Mongabay

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