The term Cyclorama means a stage circular panoramic image which, if spun round, gives the impression of an unending sequence of scenes following one after the other. I gave the work the motto ´How the heavens opened, raining down strangely and persistently on the little stones´. This was how, at a very young age, my child once decided to solve the age-old dilemma and philosophical dispute on how life on Earth began. I tried to imagine the next stage in the development of this primeval beginning, all the way to somewhere in the unforeseeably distant future, and to con way it using a musical parallel. The work contains imitative and musically symbolic elements here and there, but, on the whole, this is not a superficial illustration of the action, and it would be a mistake to seek specific meanings in the general substance of the music. In any case, ideas outside the music itself end to have sense more for the composer, as an impulse for musical inspiration…´