Elements 10: Neon is the thirty-first album in the series of music on the Elements, a very large work in progress consisting of electronically/digitally created architectural music compositions by Oscar van Dillen.

The cover art in the Elements series consists of color inverted pencil drawings made by the composer.

A word of warning: after careful listening, the world around you may not sound the same any longer.

The work on this album was conceived of, composed, created, recorded, post-produced and mastered May – June 2024.

All works, cover art and booklet of this album were created by Oscar van Dillen, additional images from Wikimedia Commons.

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In the naming of Neon there is therefore a certain paradox: among the noble ones, it used to be the new, the latest discovery (after Argon and Krypton). The rather later discovered and wrongly named Helium – it should have been called HELION to fit the group’s chemical nomenclature – also turned out to be part of the same group, sharing unique similarities in their light spectra.

Although all these elements are chemically unreactive, they do have technological applications, most famous and known among these are those of Neon. Ne lights and He-Ne lasers abound in our technological humanscape, mostly used for advertisement of goods and ideas, for goods about ideas, and ideas about goods.

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