tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8369978331248148993.post176993546868266021..comments2023-02-17T12:42:27.699-08:00Comments on ///\Veil of Thorns/\\\: Corrode and Engulf - Cognitive Dissonance VI - Final ChapterPANICMACHINEhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12636567666089205223noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8369978331248148993.post-57626776950047314942009-05-12T21:09:00.000-07:002009-05-12T21:09:00.000-07:00regarding choronzon - panic pandemic: i am partic...regarding choronzon - panic pandemic: i am particularly impressed with the sonic textures you develop throughout the album. bizarrely, on the first few listens at least, the fastest songs seem to have the most texture. patterns of sound overlaid across a sheer wall of noise at times. i'm definitely enjoying it. thank you. now all i need is a lyric sheet. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8369978331248148993.post-51773865346576965312009-04-30T21:42:00.000-07:002009-04-30T21:42:00.000-07:00thank you very much, i'm looking forward to going ...thank you very much, i'm looking forward to going through those files. starting with panic pandemic. <br /><br />i read the glass bead game a few of years ago but since i havent really read much fiction for a while and since hesse is one of my favorites perhaps i'll read it again. but dont you think that the excess of order leads to stultification or, as gurdjieff would say, crystalization? the impression i got from hesse was that the game players and all of castalia were perhaps too mannered, that Knecht's final act was basically immersion in chaos. obviosuly a balance must be struck. represented in the west, as i'm sure you're aware, by the seal of solomon or as the rose cross. the balance tipping too far either way is ruin: chaotic savagery results in entropy, in decay, and so too does excessive order (both crowley's and gurdjieff's devil it seems) result in entropy in the form of stagnation. i am convinced that the act of creation must in some way be negentropic. or in a gnostic sense, the introduction into the demiurgic realm of true knowledge, of gnosis, if at all possible. rhizomatic consciousness could certainly work in a negentropic manner as ideas spread from mind to mind...another garden of forking paths.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8369978331248148993.post-77305140709631484162009-04-30T07:23:00.000-07:002009-04-30T07:23:00.000-07:00We do contain both, in my best analysis. Of course...We do contain both, in my best analysis. Of course, Choronzon plays a big role, both as a current and as a metaphor. <br /><br />Rhizomatic consciousness would be a break of a linear, or tree-like structure, developing ideas in a vacuum, and letting them bloom as a neural network. Nothing is to be repudiated, but the idea that we're headed from chaos to order, savagery through progress to a manifest destiny of ordered lives and calcified forms of culture. (Read Hesse's The Glass Bead Game if you haven't already.)<br /><br />That fragment ties very well whith this piece, and the book I borrowed from, my own "Panic Pandemic", that large endeavour of a few years ago with one of my other projects, (Choronzon, wouldn't you know...). <br /><br />Download can be found <A HREF="http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=8cfce021d7cdf91591b20cc0d07ba4d2e0e6e6a38b47936c" REL="nofollow">here</A>.<br /><br />Feel free to check out anything else in the folder is you feel so inlined.PANICMACHINEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12636567666089205223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8369978331248148993.post-86982752541136606002009-04-28T21:42:00.000-07:002009-04-28T21:42:00.000-07:00excellent visuals...excellent sounds...excellent w...excellent visuals...excellent sounds...excellent words. i like how the two voices blend. 24:oo-25:00 very good indictment of futility modern humans i'd say.<br /><br />synchronistically i was revising and preparing the poem i mentioned in an earlier post for cutting up. this is some of it:<br /><br />...this is the way the world ends<br />not with a bang<br />nor even a whimper<br />so quiet it slipped away before we noticed...<br /><br />interesting.<br /><br />a couple of questions:<br /><br />did you intend the sibilant voice to be that of choronzon, in a crowleyan sense? i assume that you mean to imply that we contain both within? entropic order and negentropic chaos AND their inversions? <br /><br />what do you mean by rhizomatic consciousness?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com