🍫🌼 Life is like a box of chocolates... The nice thing about life giving you lemons is that it helps us reassess our priorities and with a little work they make for a sweet treat. Lemonade is most welcome in the spring sun, or in our case, rain and snow. With the help of our new project consultant Shelby, we were able to refine some of our unpolished ideas from the busy con season. Grammatically it is difficult for me to communicate the thoughts that the muses evoke. Not just because English isn't my first language, but this interpretation of life is that the language of the cosmos is like a spider web of synonyms, metaphors and streams of consciousness. It is hardly a place that one could comprehend alone. Thus with the advice of another translator, I think we were able to recompose a lyric that better expresses the songs of our world. I hope you'll enjoy this, as Shelby and I had a rollercoaster of a time just trying to figure what was going on with many of the sentences. Thank you so much everyone for enduring this journey with me. More exciting project announcements and updates up ahead. Onward to a bright summer! #puillustrated #puiche #tbt #hymnofworldsbeyond #writing #muse #throwbackthursday #musicauniversalis #streamofconsciousness #songofourworld (at Volo, Illinois) https://www.instagram.com/p/B_nYPs0jZ4x/?igshid=1smewsavr3x58

Starting off the day with the beautiful A Beat Of Silence, from #Germany's Rayon, the solo project of #MarcusAcher of #TheNotwist! #Hypnotic clockwork marimbas meet wheezing #harmoniums, spiralling arpeggios and #drone-y #synths. The music of the cosmos - #MusicaUniversalis/#HarmoniaMundi. Gorgeous, luscious #neoclassical strings, without succumbing to the #NilsFrahm/#GodspeedYouBlackEmperor paradigm. Perfect for watching the melting snow. #Rayon #albumoftheday #analbumaday #forestpunkrecommends #serialism #classicism #mastery #classical #classicalmusic #musiqueconcrete #dronemusic #November2016 #November11 #November112016 #graphicdesign #albumcover #TheVisionAndTheVoice #repetition

#binaural #ascii #kaleidoscope #harmonyofspheres #musicauniversalis #relax #hypnosis #lucidity #enhancer #calm #audiovideo #music #electronicmusic #visualart #artwork #aesthetic https://www.instagram.com/p/B3CrUtlnFOP/?igshid=1rgq9rz0wi6ql

https://www.uva.co.uk/features/musicauniversalis

Still waking up from dreams about Musica Universalis -> @unitedvisualartists Could have hung out with this piece for a whiiiile @michgranado @haiiileen @iiipoints / / / / #musicauniversalis #unitedvisualartists #dayfornight #musicfestival #music #light #space #planets #code #iiipoints (at Day for Night)

Installation light & sound piece called #MusicaUniversalis @dayfornightfest 2nd flr E wing Barbara Jordan #USPS building

The Glass Bead Game / Musica universalis

“These rules, the sign language and grammar of the Game, constitute a kind of highly developed secret language drawing upon several sciences and arts, but especially mathematics and music (and/or musicology), and capable of expressing and establishing interrelationships between the content and conclusions of nearly all scholarly disciplines. The Glass Bead Game is thus a mode of playing with the total contents and values of our culture; it plays with them as, say, in the great age of the arts a painter might have played with the colors on his palette. All the insights, noble thoughts, and works of art that the human race has produced in its creative eras, all that subsequent periods of scholarly study have reduced to concepts and converted into intellectual property -- on all this immense body of intellectual values the Glass Bead Game player plays like the organist on an organ. And this organ has attained an almost unimaginable perfection; its manuals and pedals range over the entire intellectual cosmos; its stops are almost beyond number. Theoretically this instrument is capable of reproducing in the Game the entire intellectual content of the universe.” 

-The Glass Bead Game: A General Introduction to its History for the Layman, The Glass Bead Game, Hermann Hesse

Musica universalis aut musica mundana

[Fluctibus, Robertus de. (aka Robert Fludd) De musica mundana. 1618.] "Quae cum intuerer stupens, ut me recepi: 'Quid hic?' inquam, 'quis est, qui complet aures, tantus et tam dulcis sonus?' 'Hic est,' inquit, 'ille, qui intervallis disiunctus imparibus, sed tamen pro rata parte distinctis, impulsu et motu ipsorum orbium efficitur et acuta cum gravibus temperans varios aequabiliter concentus efficit; nec enim silentio tanti motus incitari possunt, et natura fert, ut extrema ex altera parte graviter, ex altera autem acute sonent. Quam ob causam summus ille caeli stellifer cursus, cuius conversio est concitatior, acuto et excitato movetur sono, gravissimo autem hic lunaris atque infimus; nam terra nona immobilis manens una sede semper haeret complexa medium mundi locum." When I had recovered from my amazement at these things I asked, “What is this sound so strong and so sweet that fills my ears?” “This,” he replied, “is the melody which, at intervals unequal, yet differing in exact proportions, is made by the impulse and motion of the spheres themselves, which, softening shriller by deeper tones, produce a diversity of regular harmonies. Nor can such vast movements be urged on in silence; and by the order of nature the shriller notes sound from one extreme of the universe, the deeper from the other. Thus yonder supreme celestial sphere with its clustered stars, as it revolves more rapidly, moves with a shrill and quick strain; this lower sphere of the moon sends forth deeper notes; while the earth, the ninth sphere, remaining motionless, always stands fixed in the lowest place, occupying the centre of the universe. [Cicero, De Re Publica, VI, 18.]

Quad II

“1 enters at A, completes his course and is joined by 3. Together they complete their courses and are joined by 4. Together all three complete their courses and are joined by 2. Together all four complete their courses. Exit 1. 2, 3 and 4 continue and complete their courses. Exit 3. 2 and 4 continue and complete their courses. Exit 4. End of 1st series. [...] Unbroken movement.”

- Samuel Beckett, Quad, The Collected Shorter Plays, Grove Press.