"an entirely new universe"

I love this quote from German composer Carl Maria von Weber. He's talking about his ideal for opera and describes it as:

"...a fully rounded and self-contained work of art in which all the ingredients furnished by the contributing arts disappear in the process of fusion, and in thus perishing help to form an entirely new universe." (italics are mine)

Sounds like a pretty cool description of our little project and what we may hope to achieve...not to mention the idea of "dying" to experience something beyond the familiar.

cheers,
Mark