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Scriabin Mysterium; The Composer that tried to implode the universe 2017-05-05 09:15:48 Post No. 18972306
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Scriabin Mysterium; The Composer that tried to implode the universe
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I'm not sure if most of you know of the composer by the name of Scriabin. Scriabin was a composer that claimed paranormal powers through his music, often holding concerts for the sole purpose of exercising demons within the crowd with his music. Scriabin was obsessed with completing his piece "Mysterium" he planned on performing this piece at the foot of the Himalayas as in a perfectly symmetrical temple that he describes (and draws about) in his journals. Mysterium was planned to be performed for 7 consecutive days without rest. After these seven days, he believed that the cosmos would implode, ending everything we know and transfiguring humanity into "nobler beings". he even invented a new language of music to make this possible, forgoing all the previously accepted rules of music. Scriabin had Synesthesia, which pretty much means he had the ability to "See" music as colors and pictures, Every time I listen to his works I can only imagine the shit he has seen while composing this. Scriabin was so consumed while composing this symphony that he died before he could complete it. years later another young composer finished the symphony it was then performed for the first time. many people claim to have experienced an incredible sense of "Cosmic Fear" almost to the point of entering a trance. others report that once they begin listening they cannot stop. there are much other theory's of what was going on but I think /x/ would be an awesome place to discuss this. Was Scriabin insane? Or was he on some other level of cosmic knowledge that transcends our level of understanding? Could humanity really be ended? is there spiritual power in music? Take a listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4YSysUn-Bk
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He seemed to have some kind of connection to this chord. Title it "The mystic chord" or "Prometheus chord" Worth looking into. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMu-IOtGSF0
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So no matter how hard people try to analyze and decode his language it's completely unsuccessful. Modern Music cannot explain Scriabin's "Prometheus Chord". He seemed to have some sort of undecipherable method to his madness.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sGGJT47uUw
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Some sources:
http://www.pianosociety.com/cms/index.php?section=83
http://www.52composers.com/scriabin.html
http://www.scriabinsociety.com/biography.html
http://www.scriabininthehimalayas.com/mysterium
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK2uTtuI84w
It's disjointed but it forces you onto its trajectory so the ride is essentially smooth. It's differentiable and non differentiable. It follows because it doesn't. You can't remember the notes immediately but you get a sense of what's NOT coming next so it makes sense like nature does. There is no message as such in the form of any musical motifs and this atonality allows the listener to engage with the sound. The sound is allowed to become a force creating the illusion of momentum in the listener's mind. It is an impression of existence but not an impersonation of it.
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>There in the narrow hall, outside the bolted door with the covered keyhole, I often heard sounds which filled me with an indefinable dread—the dread of vague wonder and brooding mystery. It was not that the sounds were hideous, for they were not; but that they held vibrations suggesting nothing on this globe of earth, and that at certain intervals they assumed a symphonic quality which I could hardly conceive as produced by one player.
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>Modern Music cannot explain Scriabin's "Prometheus Chord"
That's a D9b13 chord voiced in fourths. Nothing inexplicable about it.
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