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Great Work (if you can get it)

by ant.step

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Black Raven 04:02
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White Dove 06:07
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Red Pheasant 07:22

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The Great Work or Magnum Opus as it is known in alchemy, breaks down the transmutation of base material into gold into (in this case) a four step process: 1 - Nigredo, 2 - Albedo, 3 - Citrinitas, and 4 - Rubedo. Alchemy’s pre-literate attempt at systematization has inspired an abstraction here that uses the idea that four of the world’s continents give the character to the chromatic stages mentioned above. In this series of electronic art music, the avian symbology found in these treatises as well as Jungian psychology, the birds of a feather (BoF) meeting style used by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to denote initial meetings of members interested in a particular issue that can also allude to the “old boys network” found in the highest ranks of capitalism and politics. The great work of nations and mankind are made at these high levels, standing on the shoulders of other greats. Grand gestures and intentions become the glory of a privileged class whose “work” becomes a Philosophical Stone upon which the Great Work is carried out.

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released February 9, 2019

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I came forth upon the Land of Angles, rose in the City of Angels, only to fall amongst the 'Jersey devils.

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