Wednesday 23 November 2016

A musical analogy for the evoluton of consciousness

...Dissonance was, perversely, embraced by the corruption of modernity as an ideal in its own right - even when there was no independence of voices, but block chords. So, the individual is symbolically denied independence and agency - but in-effect forced to participate in dissonance.

The future? - well perhaps it can musically be gestured-at by independence of voices - counterpoint - simultaneous with harmony; each person's agency symbolically combining with each other's in an overall harmony...

Illustrated with musical examples: 
http://albionawakening.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/the-past-is-unison-present-is.html

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