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SOLVE ET COAGULA JOSHUA HUMPHREY 1 Contents Grain Clouds Chaos Magic I Music of the Spheres Chaos Magic II The Elixir Vitae 2 GRAIN CLOUDS To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of you hand, and eternity in an hour. - William Blake 3 Autopoetic patterning aperiodic order Alternating process of break it down build it up break it down Oscillatory ossification Degenerating sonic particles Grains of sound Acoustic quanta Temporal Corporeal Coreshine scattered and domain decomposed Cosmic hourglass swallows its children like chronos son Sands of time Maelstrom1 Swirling vortices vaporize synchronous variables Clock decomposition, organic, rotting Evaporation and coalescence of granulated matter Clouds of sound Particle generated neural reverberatory circuits 4 Cellular automata2 Physical models mattered mind additive quiescent Moving towards a burned nerve cell Massa confusa3 the void matrix mother births elementary particles Prophetic sines Sublimated Gaseous vapors then condensed into undifferentiated clouds Vibratory fields of interference Recombine the discontinuous into interminable comprehension 5 The seed must die before it's born Mercury and Sulphur wed calcinatio, solutio, putrefactio4 Ah the peacock's tail cauda pavonis5 Resplendent plethora of brilliant colorful eyes Ablution of alchemical opus Palindromic color, uniform texture, text, tactile traces, tacit tessellation, fractalized poetry Hermeneutic exegesis of human history 6 CHAOS MAGIC I The Great Work is, above all things, the creation of man by himself. -Eliphas Levi 7 Chaosynthesis Granular synthesis is a generative process utilized in digital sound design. It can be used to create evolving atmospheres, lush organic pads and alien landscapes. In the process, an audio sample is broken into tiny oscillating fragments called grains. These grains are then reformed and condensed into a probabilistic mass known as a grain cloud. Playing with granular synthesis is rather like playing God. Time, space and frequency become plastic and soluble. The operator controls the causal nature of acoustic quanta, bending them to the will of intent, sorting and sifting through the skeletal remains of the old in the synthesis of the new. The operator is the alchemist who recycles base lead into shining gold; the adept who sculpts their art from the black swirling cloud of chaos-void or the massa confusa. A reduction of basal metal is needed to sublimate this vaporous cloud. Oscillating sound sampled audio snapshot moving image frozen into bits. The Recipe First cut the sample into small pieces, between one and fifty milliseconds. Then layer them on top of each other to create holographic soundscapes - vibrating manifolds of sampled sound. Separate time and frequency domains. Vary wavelengths, phase, and spatial location. Soundscapes are carved by grinding and pulling – the movement of aether to mind to muscle to machine and back to void again. Switching binary emerges complexity. Stretch time elastic sound is malleable like soul. The Pythagorean School Music and poetry are the aparati used to make the measure. Language is the compass used to locate self in the cosmos. Rising and falling melodies are formed by a colorful palate of sounds from which the artist dips their brush. “That which is like above is like that which is below.” Planets vibrate like fireflies flickering in softly humming summer night sky – their distances from each other form 8 harmonious chords. Black holes bang on space-time like the membrane of a drum. The universe is alive and sentient. Living information living in formation. The adept among stars is a resonating string in a celestial symphony. The music of the spheres permeates every fold and pleat of cosmic fabric. Seven metals of the alchemist’s laboratory correspond to seven planets, to seven notes of the chromatic scale, and to seven energy systems of the human body. From all spheres unto all spheres there stretches an indestructible network of astral light. Like a spider web holding glimmering drops of mercurial dew, we are suspended and sustained recycling bits of information in the mind matrix mother. Genesis 2:7 God-nature is at the heart of all forms. The heat of intent sublimes nestled demiurges, which lay sleeping crystalized images of captured sounds. Imagination latent seeds form drops of grain. Clouds are condensed into Mercurial rain, the aqua permanens, which irrigates the soil of the soul. We are levees, where water meets form creates consciousness. Astral body eros* is the spirit medium that connects source and substance, chaos and gaia. * In the book Chaos, Gaia, Eros by systems theorist Ralph Abraham, Eros is seen as the medium that connects the void of Chaos to the substance of Gaia. Erodynamics, named in 1989, applies dynamical systems theory to human social phenomena. 9 MUSIC OF THE SPHERES There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacing of the spheres. -Pythagoras 10
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