The company’s name is borrowed from Hesse’s last novel, The Glass Bead Game. Set in Castalie, a non-religious monastic organisation, it tells the story of a community of intellectuals and artists who compile and study knowledge in order to advise rulers and populations on how to avoid repeating mistakes of the past.

Their specialty is the Glass Bead Game. Players combine art and science in order to find solutions to problems. As thought the key to understanding the world was to be found in the combination of a Bach melody, a mathematical equation, and the number of veins in a leaf.

Art is universal. We need it to escape and think about the world. You don’t need to understand the codes to be moved by them; you just need have access to them.

Classical music is no exception.

Based in the Rhuys peninsula in the Morbihan region of France, the company approaches each of its projects with the idea of the association between humans, nature, the arts and knowledge at its core.