When people think of futuristic music, they typically envision something spacey, electronic, and robotic sounding. It’s natural to assume that the future is an extension of the present, that since the defining feature of modern life is technology, the future will be the same just with even more technology. But that expectation is too encumbered by the shortcomings of scientific materialism and transhumanism, whose one-sided view of existence excludes anything outside mainstream assumptions. There are also metaphysical, alien, occult, and eschatological variables at play that will not only influence the future but outright override the lesser technology factors and create outcomes that completely go against the prevailing assumptions of our times. As a planet we are approaching a simultaneous convergence of astrophysical cycles, occult trends, metaphysical plans, and alien agendas. This convergence represents a schism or nexus point, a discontinuity in human history that will throw the prevailing order into chaos. From this chaos will arise any number of new orders. Whatever the outcome, over the long term the future will not simply be a linear progression of current technological trends, but rather a full scale precipitation of esoteric/alien/occult factors that for now have remained sub rosa. The future may be divided into two major phases: the transition between old and new eras, and the new era itself. The new era will be one of peace, enlightenment, and integrity. It will be a new renaissance of the spirit, mind, and soul. Every myth, vision, and prophecy speaks of this Golden Age, this Kingdom of Heaven, this Reign of Wisdom. However, the transition phase preceding it will be one of superhuman heroism in the face of extreme hardship as the spiritually awakened square off against old and new adversaries who seek to maintain their dominance. The transition will require dealing with the tyrannical death throes of the old power structure, surviving the collapse of civilization, and developing enough knowledge, strength, cohesion, and identity to keep the spiritual flame alive during the next Dark Age. Threats to human sovereignty will evolve from mere political oppression at the very beginning to increasingly cosmic and supernatural opposition near the middle and end. A new chivalric order will arise in response to these challenges. Our powers to deal with these threats will evolve as well, shifting from five-sense methods toward more paranormal, psychic, etheric, spiritual forms of defense and offense. This, as our consciousness, self-knowledge, divine connection, perception, technology, and environment gradually pivot to a higher octave of existence. If we were to translate the above into music, what would it sound like? Would country music do? Would jazz? Our music would have to be epic, human yet superhuman, powerful, dynamic, transcendental, mysterious, spiritual, and intense. Modern music devotes too much of itself to realms of experience whose days are numbered: urban life, fashion, celebrity, glamor, materialism, promiscuity, mundanity, etc. Very few genres are even capable of capturing the zeitgeist of what’s to come. For that, we need music whose texture, rhythm, melody, and harmony is anything but small and worldly. An obvious choice for a texture that embodies power, energy, and dynamism is the distorted tone of an electric guitar. The distortion comes from an overloading of the vacuum tubes inside a guitar amplifier. The signal hitting the tubes is so intense that it surpasses their rated limitations, and so the signal’s waveform distorts and acquires a harder sonic edge. So here we already have the concepts of power, energy, and the transcending of limitations. The resulting sound carries not only the identifiable pitch of the original signal from the guitar, but now has a rich spectrum of harmonic overtones added. Instead of one, there are now many. This captures the essence of power. Cymbals in a drum set likewise consist of a huge spectrum of harmonics, but they lack a well defined fundamental pitch and therefore don’t have the sonic “direction” that a distorted guitar has. The latter embodies the power of many acting under a single purpose. The rushing sound of a massive waterfall, the buzz of a high voltage generator, the roar of a crowd — all of these share in the expression of power. And hence, the distorted electric guitar tone is the epitome of power, energy, and transcendence. It is the golden mean between the directionality but loneliness of a pure sine wave and the multitudinous but directionless sound of pure noise. That is why all metal music employs the distorted guitar tone, for power is the common denominator of all metal subgenres; the predominant chord metal uses is even called the “power chord”, based on the 2:3 perfect fifth interval, because as mentioned earlier, the perfect fifth by itself already has a regal and powerful sound, which is only enhanced by distortion. The archetype of power that underlies metal can be filtered or accessorized through various harmonies, melodies, textures, and rhythms to generate the various subgenres of the field. Unfortunately, just as physical power defaults toward violence and destruction in today’s world, so has the power of metal defaulted toward violent and dark applications, but it need not be so. If directed toward the divine realm instead, the result would be an expression of divine power, an archangelic archetype rather than a demonic one. In Indian classical music, the instrument known as a tanpura has a similar texture to the electric guitar and generates a drone that signifies cosmic power. montalk https://youtube/watch?v=fQVCbx7RcEs
Posted on: Sat, 03 Jan 2015 03:35:11 +0000
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