Super Geek

I am a super geek. Its' official.

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Though it's probably time for a new criteria; geek, nerd and cool have all become molten and shifting entities.

Bring on the neo-geek.

Blogstipation and mental laxative

Out with that 4th of July stuff, cluttering up my blog space. That's SO earlier in the month. In order to shift the weighty blogstipation of ideas I thought I would take a mental laxative and 'unload' some thoughts, without much editing or composition.

I am currently writhing and wrestling with the key of D Minor, surely the saddest of keys. As part of a larger work that deals with Darwin and Creationism, the seeming impossibility of one person to understand the true meaning of someone else who holds a diametrically opposed viewpoint; due to the process of translation that occurs as we assimilate the context of others into our own. So I went bach to The Well Tempered Clavier and looked through my catalogue of notes on the key. I realised all my favourite pieces were D Minor.

J. S. Bach: Partita in d minor,5. (Chaconne1),Itzhak Perlman

compare with this, both sublime performances...

Maxim Vengerov playing Chaconne from partita in D by Bach




Bach, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, organ



Bach Double Concerto : Isaac Stern & Shlomo Mintz (Largo)- the piece that enlightened me. Musical understanding exploded upon hearing this for the first time.



Onwards into thought...

Emotional DNA inherited from your parents disposition.

Multiverse - where one decision alters the future, go back and look at all the little details that would have meant a vastly different outcome. Go back further to your origin, back to your ancestry, back to the quantum moments of the big bang where all things were just energies yet to come into being. Back further to the points beyond time and space, all the possible universes that could have come into being, each with their own set of infinite realities.

Hemn Space is a reference to Phase Space or some such - the basic idea is that with an infinite number of data points we can create a model of the cosmos, that describes every point in space and time. If you imagine X, Y and Z representing space and then one for time, we can go further for the atomic mass of that particular point, etc - unsure how detailed one needs to be. Perhaps because we are referring to an infinite number of data points, it does not matter. Once you have that collection of data points you can shift the numbers to represent a change in that point in space/time. Following that along you can produce all reality... or rather every possible reality. Each alteration in the infinite complex of data will result in a representation of a new form of reality. Infinite realities.

Then you get to the idea of a world track. That this reality is only one version of the possible infinite number of states that reality can be expressed as. My reality is a path through this Hemn Space ( which is just a theoretical world of representative data ) every choice made, every flip of my quantum state, every adjustment to the reality is a totally different cosmos - each with me in it, with my consciousness tracking the cosmos.

I find it quite sad to think that death is a point at which I no longer track the worldtrack. For others, I no longer appear in their narrative, but for me I am simply other-where tracking the reality in which I do exist.

Alternatively, I find it heartening that intuition is like observing all those possible universes at once and collapsing the wave of possibility into the best reality, which is this one. The one in which I have a beautiful wife and son. x

Independence Day

I just Tweeted ... Happy 'We Made The Colonies Independent and Let Them Spell Colour, Axe and Aluminium with Missing Letters Day.'

However, I am just being flippant.



I can see that the span of time between Independence Day of 1776 to VE day and the end of WWII, forms a larger social arc of a relationship that, though distorted by swells of changing political tides, shows a deeper link of a common people joined in a greater moral kinship. This moral kinship is not a religious link, if anything it is the spectre of religion that will cause the most illusory discordance between any nation, it is rather an ideal of freedom that should be continually maintained by the governed, now more than ever, when democracy seems so fragile.

Most appropriate track...

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lyric

A nicer alternative...

Musick and the Mobius Engine

Papillion for Poppy

I recently found that I could set up an artist profile in Last.fm and then went about setting up all my music files with them. It was a catalyst for me to finally sort out some of the collections of music in an official capacity and thus draw a line beneath those projects. It also helped define the nature of what I do for myself.

I consider the work I have created to be the output of a composer but the files as they stand are quite tough listening in any casual context... heavy with symbolism and cryptographic nuances but played back on some midi horror show (Monkies are Junkies, notwithstanding). Even so, go along and see if there is anything you like, if you like it, suggest a similar artist or shout about it.

Allow me to deconstruct some of the blurb I put together to explain myself, in an attempt to justify and possibly explain what I am on about.

Mobius Engine is the umbrella name for the most notable musical project by CatJuJu, also known as Curtis McFee; a welsh born artist, whose personal style attempts to create a meta-theoretical construction of music.

Creating a meta-theoretical work sounds a bit vague but does mean something significant for me. It is to create a work based on a theory of music that, at the same time attempts to look at the underlying theory of music.

All of his compositions exist as developments on musical theory in a pre-created state of flux, usually cut down to the bare, un-performed bones of a conceptual structure. This theory exists as a form of process music going under the developmental name of “Musick”, referencing both the sci-punk novel Vurt and the work of Alistair Crowley.

My problem/shyness concerning my own work has always stemmed from the fact that it was designed to played by an ensemble of real people, yet I only have my computer and have yet to convince enough performers to take on the task of recording the music ( Billy Cowie's rendition of 'Papillion for Poppy' being the exception - what a star). However, I do believe in the underlying musical journey itself, thus the construction of the Musick project, as a means to develop the concept formally.

“Musick” attempts to unify narrative, music and symbolism; this means that music can be successfully pinned to the esoteric details of Alchemy, Tarot, Divination Systems, Gematria and Numerology, Jungian Archetypes, Mythology, Gods, Animals, Plants, Precious Stones, Magical Artifacts, Perfumes, Astrological Symbolism, Elements, Runes, Colour and Direction. From this understanding a new way of looking at music can be discovered and employed in the study of musical composition and theory.

Here is a better explanation of Musick, I may incorporate it into the website but I will just experiment with my description for now.

Musick

By taking the twelve notes of the octave and arranging them in a circle, the interrelation of each note with all others can be analysed.

When the Circle of Fifths is also placed in a circle, a relationship can be seen between the chromatic scale octave and the octave of fifths. Half of the notes remain in position and do not alter their relation to each other, the other half swap places with their opposing note and so reverse their order around the circle.

Each of these two forms, or note collections, create the pattern of a hexagram and are formed from whole tone intervals. These shapes can also be four triangles formed from intervals of two whole tones. These four triangles correspond to the trine harmonics of astrology and planetary position.

By analysing all of astrological symbolism and meaning can then be applied to the chromatic circle by matching associated colours and astrological symbols to each tone.

Each tone will also correspond to a specific colour, forming a complete spectrum of the octave. Each colour can then be analysed in terms of our psychological reactions and with colour psychology can be matched to archetypal emotions or feelings.

Collected together, the associated symbolism of individual tones, scales and keys can be laid down. Once done, further sources of symbolism can be found by cross referencing early Greek esoteric music theory, Tarot, Qabalah and the interconnected knowledge of the Golden Dawn.

This means that music can be successfully pinned to the esoteric details of Alchemy, Tarot, Divination Systems, Gematria and Numerology, Jungian Archetypes, Mythology, Gods, Animals, Plants, Precious Stones, Magical Artifacts, Perfumes, Astrological Symbolism, Elements, Runes, Colours and Direction.

All of this is part of the overall Theory behind Musick and has all been catalogued and set down; a comprehensive study of all the relevant correspondence. There is another aspect, however, that begins with the astronomical analysis of time and date. It is another layer to the process that begins with a study of the positions of the planets in relation to place and time and forms connections with musical tones. By taking their apparent orbits around the earth, their relationships with each other form ratios, from which chords and keys can be extrapolated.

At least that is the raw idea anyway. It's not very eloquent and so far I have yet to explain the system to anyone without their eyes glazing over and a dark feeling welling up that perhaps, just maybe, I am actually as mad as a bag of baboons.