Against the Dying of the Light (2024 chillout video)

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@lisa-lisa-lisa Ай бұрын

I love using the poem

@observingsystem Ай бұрын

Thank you, Lisa! It's such a great poem, isn't it?

@TribelessJC Ай бұрын

Your music alone is captivating and incredibly relaxing, so light that it feels like it could break at any moment, and the trembling vocals that accompany it overdetermine this feeling. By watching the video and listening to what this voice says we enter another regime of feeling: the mystery is omnipresent, and we quickly understand that something heavy is at stake, a passage, an initiation, tribulations. The music, which was so diaphanous, becomes almost disturbing and envelops us as if we were entering a place where it would be the only light... It's surprising because yesterday when I told you that if I agreed to walk through the darkness it was only because I knew that light was there, I didn't realize that the theme of your piece revolved around these two opposites, light and its absence. For me, in darkness or in that which does not emit darkness, there is the most beautiful light, the most real, the one which cannot generate any illusion, and which only a human consciousness and body can see and feel. I'm being a bit abstract but we can talk for example about the light that can only be found within the chaos of the soul, the ultimate consciousness that has faced the world through all that has been repressed because of the limits he imposed on us. You are referring to seeds, to potentials which only germinate in heavy and dark soil. You also talk about the present moment that we must not let slip away, but when we try to enter it we must reject a false light, that of mental projection... It is astonishing how surprising this basic theme, light and darkness, is because light can therefore be deceptive and darkness can hide a great treasure or awaken as a matrix of all possibilities. In Plato's allegory that you mention, light is a source of illusion, and as far as the awakening of primary consciousness is concerned, it is caused by a light which is only a simulation of the brain based on partial information of the senses. This ties in with the theme of the pharmakon which is both remedy and poison, and this applies to light as well as darkness. Light is also linked to the transcendence that you spoke about in “Mysterious light”, this mystery which unites individuals who are lost. I will respond to you on this point soon because it is a major theme. I don't know if you did it on purpose, but a collective transcendence is probably what humanity needs, a bit as if we were replaying the first moments of our species when we were subject to an implacable nature and the "Mystery" united us, generated the intangible "we", the myth , since today neoliberal globalization is once again generating atomization and insecurity, a progressive return to the savannah, today technological-digital. Light can therefore allow us to escape from chaos and just as easily lock ourselves into illusion. However, it seems to me that the major theme that you want to convey is this idea of legacy, which reminds me of the moral of the epic of Gilgamesh, or how a demigod wants to achieve immortality and understands at the cost of a long journey that for humans, immortality only passes through inheritance, what we leave or transmit and which history will remember. Gilgamesh, who was a destroyer in the service of his passions, then understands that construction and self-sacrifice are his only access to immortality. I find your “protocol” for leaving a beautiful legacy very beautiful, or how dreams and introspection generate beauty, which will allow us to thwart the tricks of time. I will meditate on it. But I wonder if by this path that you describe we are not killing two birds with one stone, we are not only leaving traces that others will benefit from but also we are working on the self to the point of giving it direct access to a form of eternity of consciousness. I cannot remove the idea that introspection allows us to go beyond the self, what attaches us to the cave, and that imagination allows us to find the exit...

@observingsystem Ай бұрын

Thank you for such a beautiful comment with so much insight! When I was working on this track initially, about two years ago, I was going to a sort of "dark night of the soul" and I found comfort in the poem and the track was like a sort of therapeutic letting go of some things. Later on, I started to think more of how many ways we actually have to add some light to the world. I love the sentiment of the person who plants a tree, that will have purpose for many years after they're gone. I'd like to remind people of that if they feel like they can't do anything meaningful in life, they can plant a tree, maintain a garden, do good things for animals and nature and it will be meaningful. Small acts can have great results this way. I think the pharmakon, like many things in life, is dose dependent haha! The idea of legacy, I often see people either thinking it's family or status, but when they don't have these, that they think there's nothing else and I'd like to remind them there are many ways of life that are good and meaningful, that it's not always found in the "big things" in life, but that we can do so much good for nature and that it would be more meaningful and useful than to have a huge house and a big car. We live in a world where we value the wrong things too much and the right things too little, in my opinion, and we shouldn't just let mainstream society tell us what to do or how to live. The light in this sense, to me, is also the light of our soul, our individuality, our empathy, our critical thinking skills, things that we trade in to "fit in" or "belong" to a lot of groups these days. Maybe not you or me, because you're Tribeless and I'm watching it all from a distance, but you know most people are struggling with these things.

@TribelessJC Ай бұрын

@@observingsystem Haha, you made me laugh when you said “because you’re Tribeless and I’m watching it all from a distance”. As always you bring the discussion to fundamental subjects. Even if you don't talk about it directly, you revolve around the theme of swans and ducks which is a very serious and mysterious subject. Why are some of us not or only slightly sensitive to collective manifestations, modern rites, or to the ideologies, the myths of today, to what builds what in sociology is called mechanical solidarity. I don't like to use the notion of "souls coming from elsewhere" and therefore the notions of celestial races that spirituality adores. I prefer to talk about mutations or experiences, education or emergence due to complexity. One thing that intrigues me about this is that I think that rituals don't work on me or work negatively, for example I didn't attend my father's funeral, I knew it wouldn't be good for me and no help in grieving, even if with hindsight (I was not yet thirty) I would perhaps have forced myself for the others, so the mirror neurons are ineffective on this point for me, on the other hand I do not not at all lacking in empathy, which is also controlled by these same neurons. My brain appropriates other people's emotions but not their behaviors or beliefs... Mirror neurons are a fundamental and contradictory subject that I still have a poor understanding of but on which I write quite a bit. In fact I wrote a long text, which I almost finished, because I always want to say too many things on the subjects that you address, but in fact I think that we are quite in agreement on a lot of things and especially on the most important: what we must bring to the world when we are different and even more so when we have chosen to sacrifice many things to lead an existential quest, having of course avoided the fashion for personal development or religions, what life to lead when the quest for meaning tugs at us, how to find our place. Even though we haven't really talked about it, I think both of us have eventually developed an attitude that accepts the vicissitudes of this choice, or nature, and has a close idea of how we can follow our different path while not completely leaving the group and serving a purpose. In our troubled times where meaning is no longer given by a common myth, people search without having the time to search or only search to find and do not really ask questions other than useful ones. It is an incredible opportunity that we have to be able to serve a purpose, to put our difference at the service of the norm and not destroy it, to be constructive. You perfectly summarize the idea which consists of clearing the path towards a light which will unite post-tribal individuals who always need what the tribe brought, the idea therefore that light, this necessary anthropological transcendence, is a collective phenomenon entirely as much as individual (did you have this in mind when you wrote the text of Mysterious light?). At the same time people are united, which therefore suits the primitive function of transcendence, but it is interior, therefore it allows the flourishing of the individual, even if for me this consists of one way or another to serve the cosmic flow. Art, in fact, can perhaps serve to unite people in an atomized society without leaving the digital monad that we are gradually becoming, each one therefore drawing a light within himself which unites him with others without resorting to myth, to lying stories, but on the contrary by drawing on the same source of truth beyond words, without going through any story whatsoever. I would not be surprised if you think like me that this light we must find for ourselves already and then find the way to help those who want to make this path within themselves, but even that this translation is part of our path to the light too. In a sense it is perhaps more or less what connects our respective artistic approaches. The objective is simple and our existential quest, to which we try to devote as much of our attention as possible, follows this objective. It’s the work of a lifetime, the tree of trees, and it seems to me we planted this seed quite young😉. I also wanted to thank you for the details behind the scenes of your creations which allow me to better understand you and your work. I'll try to send you the text I've been working on over the last few days. The theme of light and that of the pharmakon through the symbolic figures of the duck and the swan that we have already discussed inspired me. But as I wrote this quick summary, I will see if it is really necessary.