Paul van Dyk - Duality (Official Video)

Paul van Dyk - Duality (official music video)
‘Guiding Light’ – is heralded by ‘Duality’, its second single.

To a considerable degree, its release is the outcome of a book - specifically Paul’s Im Leben Bleiben (Holding On To Life), which was published last year. Writing it helped PvD begin to clarify much of what followed his 2016 on-stage accident. Through it came a greater perspective understanding of the toll, all before (and against considerable odds) he started to harness that clarity into something positive, artistic and inspirational.
While his late 2019 single ‘Parallel Dimension’ contained references to the time Paul spent unconscious, ‘Duality’ takes its cues from his awakening, the gathering awareness of his circumstances and how he began to confront them.

Paul expands: “Duality is a state of mind you find yourself in. The brain is still echoing the strongest signals of how you’ve become used to seeing yourself: completely fit and vital and able to do everything. The truth is that your body is not currently capable of doing all those things, putting you in a surreal existence. This track is about starting to resolve that duality”.

Musically, he’s translated that into an instrumental cut which races - start-through-finish - with PvD’s restless, relentless dynamism. Think ‘Columbia’s high-pace rush crossed with harmonic shades of ’Angel’ and spiked by ‘Crush’s killer key changes. A track that DJ Mag’s scored “9/10” and called “the most striking, exciting PvD standalone - ‘Touched By Heaven’ and ‘I Am Alive’ included - of the last eight years”, ‘Duality’ mainlines today.

Film created by Merritt Moore, quantum physicist and professional ballet dancer, and Inés Vogelfang, film director and editor.

This film made in the for the Imagine Science Film Festival Symbiosis Competition 2017, is inspired by the wave-particle duality of light. The columns resemble the double split experiment and the movements are based off the Schrodinger equation, the mathematical equation of a quantum system.

Light is both wave and particle until it is observed and then it is detected as one or the either. As a physicist, who recently graduated with a PhD in Quantum Optics from the University of Oxford, and a professional ballet dancer, Merritt related to this particle – wave duality. She found she had to fight against the preconceived notions to be true to herself and not change based off who’s observing her or what others think. There is a popular belief is that doing both negates each other, that pursuing two passions might destructively interfere to create null. Merritt and Inés believe that pursuing art and science results in constructive interference, because the two actually strengthen each other. They believe that creativity and imagination is necessary in the lab to think of new ways to solve a problem and an analytic mind helps so much in the studio when perfecting a move.

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[mcengineeringprof]

Paul: God bless you for staying true to the roots of Trance. Your music heals souls and brings light into lives. I pray that you're making music for us fifty years from now...I promise you that we will be listening as joyfully then as we have all along. And for those of us who have moved on? I have no doubt that this will be the music we hear in heaven, too! :)

[dallasfitchick]

This is EXACTLY what the world needed today....during these difficult times, we need music more than ever...

[francesfarmer]

I am 65 ..love this ..Oh I wish I could dance like that..

[stad]

Paul van Dyk is still loyal to his sound of the 90's. And that is so amazing! One of the greatest trance artists of all times to me.

[davidgate]

This is not Duality
This is quality.

[GameSpyDarkAge]

Perfect.
A master at his craft, proving once again the best. Cheers Paul. This ones for you

[CubCake]

That sound. That sound makes me wanna cry. Miss these sounds. Those feelings. Dancing until your drenched in sweat. ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[elviernes]

I'm 54 years old, and I think this is great music. Full of energy ...

[AlisonPurviss]

51 years of age I can play this tune all day long ❤❤

[aiquesono]

I haven't heard his stuff in a long long while...and omg this sounds like a song straight out from the early 00s. Props to Paul for always sticking to his roots!

[PlNKUHOSHI]

The intro gave me goosebumps and a feeling of nostalgia.

[calingabor]

Joy and Sadness in the same time. Incredible. After more than 2 decades, Paul van Dyk is still the best trance music producer.

[noellira]

Paul Van Dyk... Siempre fiel a su estilo... Nunca cambiando su filosofía por ser parte de lo contemporáneo... Eso es lo que lo hace grande...!!!

[iSmlez]

Finally old trance is back, what a work of art by Paul Van Dyk, the nostalgia hits way back in 1998.

[rolandosconstantinou]

Pure magic! What a sound, full of emotion and energy. This is why you are the best DJ in the world.

[Astroinmotion]

This track has early 2000 feel. Nostalgic feelings we need more of these type of tracks to resurrect humanity as whole 😄😄😄

[ΤηλέμαχοςΣτικούδης]

Perfection. Both song and clip! Upper state of mind, music that balances the body.

[ganuist]

The only DJ who hasn't changed his style... 23 years of following you... Love you PVD❤❤❤

[TheBeatboxHitmanTwo]

Now this is how trance should sound. The true sound 😎

[shinjiro]

This is so reminding me of 2000-2001. Wow, can't believe this track came out 20 year later. I miss this sound.