The Abstract Observer
The Dawn Identity

ambient piano / concept / contemporary / piano / experimental / electronic / ambient

"The Dawn Identity" is essentially a "math concept" ambient album. The identity mentioned in the name of the album is Euler's Identity, that is a remarkable equality linking the five most important numbers in mathematics:

▪ e = 2,71828… : a key constant in the study of growth and decline phenomena
▪ i = √-1: the imaginary unit
▪ π = 3,14159… : the constant ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter
▪ 1: the unit of counting or measurement
▪ 0: the null quantity

About three centuries ago, Euler discovered that if you take the number e, raise it to the product between i and π and add 1, the result is 0. That is:

▪ e^(iπ) + 1 = 0

This has been defined as “the most profound mathematical statement ever written", "uncanny and sublime", "filled with cosmic beauty", "mind-blowing". In fact, “what could be more mystical than an imaginary number interacting with real numbers to produce nothing?".
The mathematician Benjamin Peirce said: “This expression is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth".

Since an angle of π radians is a straight angle, we thought that the whole thing could be depicted as a rising sun (as shown in the cover image).

That said, we tried to translate that into music through some criteria outlined in the pages of each track.