"There Is Nothing Under the Shell of God" is a sound work of approximately 30 minutes that concerns the formation of the perceptual world inside one's head. Can art be satisfactory for its author without the presence of an unknown force? Are music and sound art attempts to reach for the lost god or to reconcile a human being in the midst of mortality? For many people, the desire to believe in the continuity of mind, in the significance of every day events and external sacredness is what makes life worth living. This secular-humanistic work combines music, synthetic sound, human voice and sound recorded by humans. The work aspires to the emotional experience of an endless interim space of meaning and meaninglessness.

Julius Valve is 32-yearl old composer and sound artist.