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Existential music boxes: a Speldosa-only track “Go Into The Light”
“The Universe is constantly speaking to us, and as soon as we learn to understand that language, life blossoms like the most exquisite flower.” ― Katherine Plant
People die, and nearly-die, all the time. Only a very small subset of the nearly-died report awareness of their near-death experience.
A textual analysis of the language used by these survivors in describing the experience was recently conducted by Belgian researchers:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0227402#pone.0227402.ref007
It revealed that whilst a minority of these survivors experienced intense feelings of fear, and darkness, a majority experienced ecstatic sensations of warmth and light.
Observers may wish to interpret these findings in accordance with their own spiritual predilections. More research is clearly indicated, and we all, sooner or later, will get a chance to participate in it. Whether we then have an opportunity to report our findings back, of course, is another matter entirely.
Track made with three live instances of Speldosa, one AUM tape loop of same, and a variety of reverbs. No other instrument apps used. Sequencing courtesy of Cykle and Atom.
Comments
Nice track! Really been enjoying this app. Was using it with Cyckle just a bit ago, through some of the waverley effects. It sounds fantastic.
Lovely stuff.
Very blissful! When are we getting your first BARP masterpiece?
@HotStrange @nickneek : thanks both for the listens and comments. Yes - I should try it with Waverly fx. Keep forgetting I have them…
@Gavinski : Thank you! I have literally five minutes ago taken delivery of the Lyra 8, and I now have the BARP set up in the studio, so it’s going to be an interesting weekend…
First purely physical impression of the Lyra 8 - surprisingly, smaller than I thought (square, just a fraction wider than my iPad, and about 25% taller), and about 100 times heavier - a two inch thick, solid steel brick of a thing! Just going in for my first meddle with it now. I may be some time…
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You are truly an artist, @Svetlovska !!!
To tackle this subject, and present it in a way that my ears and my imagination can truly paint a picture of getting close to the light, is very impressive.
You can emote through your creations.
Your creativity and musicality is very impressive!!!
Thank you for this beauty!!!
@Svetlovska -genuine question, what does that quote in your opening post mean?
Trigger warning for suicide
@ervin : I’m tempted to be a smartarse/ the former Rogerian therapist I trained as, and say: “What does it mean to you?”, or just treat it as a slogan off a Hallmark greeting card, but ok, I’ll take it.
I consider myself an atheist, but it is an inescapable fact of human existence that we silly naked apes have an urge towards transcendence and the sublime, which may very well be no more than an over enthusiastic cross wiring of neurons in our needlessly over complex brains. Something similar may be at work in those experiencing Near Death Experiences, the last dopamine-hit gift from the randomly firing neurons of a dying brain.
But whether it be through religious and mystical systems of thought, mental trainings, exterior rituals and the practice of various ‘magics’, the imbibing of alcohol or mind altering psychedelics, or even sitting on poles in deserts, as a species we seem to have an urge toward the ineffable. The way that a beautiful sunset, poetry - or indeed music - escapes quotidian language, touches us in ways we can only feel about, not speak or rationalise about...
I experienced one such profound moment of transcendence at the point of taking my own life a couple of decades ago, a heightened sense of being in the universe, in connection, which, had I been any kind of adherent to an organised religion, I am sure I would have interpreted as meeting a god, or some such.
A powerfully visceral ecstasy of feeling, a dwelling in high places which was bittersweet in its terrible intensity, because you cannot be in that place and in the mundane world at the same time. You have to choose to leave it and return to the mundane world, or stay there. Obviously, on that occasion, I chose to leave. Bittersweet, because the pain of that leaving went deep.
More prosaically, I think I was mentally ill at the time, having a breakdown occasioned by the conflict between my need to transition, and my certain knowledge of the cost of it, beginning with the correctly prophesied death of my quarter century relationship with the only man I have ever loved.
Nevertheless, it was a profound experience and one that changed me, in more than the obvious sense that I began my overt transition that day I walked away from the tree I was going to hang myself from.
Since the actually very undramatic but definitely very real light-touch portent of mortality I had a few days ago, I have found myself thinking back on that day up on the Sussex Downs, the strange terminal ecstasy I experienced there, and the choices I made as a consequence.
The quote captures for me something of the non religious but transcendent sense of connectedness I experienced then in that extremity.
I hope that answers the question of what the quote means to me. What, if anything, it means to you, only you can decide.
@ReneAsologuitar : thank you! As ever, your words mean much to me.
Thank you. I do appreciate (a lot) you not taking the"what does it mean to you" route and offering me your actual answer. 🙏
Lovely...
Beautiful, thank you for sharing, the music and your soul.
I forgot I had the Waverley effects too 😂 they’re honestly really good. Jealous of they Lyra 8!
Lovely track, moving story 🙏