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Splendor Solis ("The Splendour of the Sun") is a version of the illuminated alchemical text attributed to Salomon Trismosin. This version dates from around 1582.

The earliest version, written in Central German, is dated 1532–1535 and is part of the Kupferstichkabinett Berlin collection at the State Museums in Berlin. It is illuminated on vellum, with decorative borders like a book of hours, meticulously painted and highlighted with gold. The later copies in London, Kassel, Paris and Nuremberg are equally fine. Twenty versions exist worldwide.

The original of Splendor Solis, which contained seven chapters, appeared in Augsburg. In miniatures the works of Albrecht Dürer, Hans Holbein and Lucas Cranach were used. The author of the manuscript was considered to be the legendary Salomon Trismosin, allegedly the teacher of Paracelsus, though the name is believed to be a pseudonym. The work consists of a sequence of 22 elaborate images, set in ornamental borders and niches. The symbolic process shows the classical alchemical death and rebirth of the king, and incorporates a series of seven flasks, each associated with one of the then-known planets. Within the flasks a process is shown involving the transformation of bird and animal symbols into the Queen and King, the white and the red tincture. Although the style of the Splendor Solis illuminations suggest an earlier date, they are clearly of the 16th century.

Splendor Solis

Ben Patterson - Paper Piece
Nicolas Tourney (conductor) & Ensemble Auracle
Recorded at Bravos Foundry (Galicia, Spain) in September 2021.

Ben Patterson - Paper Piece

Music for Piano - Configuration 4

We're Not Here Anymore

The Unicorn in Captivity is a new musical piece that filled my spirit whilst viewing the massive and breathtaking medieval tapestry of the same name at the Met Cloisters in New York City. The tapestry is dated to circa 1495-1505 and is originally from the Netherlands. I have always been deeply in love and wholly fascinated with all things medieval, and this music is a direct product of this. The tapestry in person is quite esoteric and seems to radiate an ethereal and mystical energy. I almost felt as if I lost consciousness briefly whilst feasting upon it... or perhaps it simply transported me to a different time and place. In this new musical work, I have simply given the themes and harmonies that flowed through my heart that day as I first met the tapestry known as, "The Unicorn in Captivity..." In a way, I suppose a piece of my soul will always be linked with this ancient work of art now... I hope you all enjoy this music and its unique mystical beauty. Finally, I ask you all... what do you see? What does my music make you feel???

The Unicorn in Captivity

A live set, opening for Russian-American dark ambient group Darkrad, recorded at the Drone Factory in Regina, Canada, on April 29, 2017.

pulsewidth at the drone factory-04292017

/ 𝗣𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗗 𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗬 𝗟𝗢𝗨𝗗, EVEN TO THE POINT OF OVERWHELMING INCONVENIENCE – ABRUPT VOLUME CHANGES ARE ESSENTIAL FOR THE STRUCTURE & DYNAMISM OF THE FORM AS A WHOLE | 𝗛𝗘𝗔𝗗𝗣𝗛𝗢𝗡𝗘𝗦 𝗦𝗧𝗥𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗟𝗬 𝗥𝗘𝗖𝗢𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗗𝗘𝗗 | 𝗕𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗨𝗥𝗔𝗟 𝗔𝗨𝗗𝗜𝗢 /

« erased lines cartography » (2018/2019)
piece composed for Festival Mikrotöne Basel 2019 in October 2018–May 2019

trombone – FRANCISCO OLMEDO
e-accordion – DAWID KONRAD RYDZ
harp – ALICE BELUGOU
violin – ZOÉ POURI
cello – MATTHIEU GUTBUB

electronics – SZYMON S. STRZELEC

part I recorded by Caspar Johannes Walter & Shervin Saremi during the world premiere on May 4th, 2019 in H95: Raum für Kultur in Basel, Switzerland (Festival Mikrotöne Basel 2019)

parts II & III recorded, sampled, resynthesized, mixed & rendered by the composer in May-September 2019

© Szymon Stanisław Strzelec, 2019

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the piece is based on morphing noises with precisely designed morphologies derived from chord transition between 24, 15, 19, 22 edo and my own non-octave scale which will be further developed in the next, forthcoming piece. for more info please, send me a message! feel free to ask questions.  :)

erased lines cartography (2018/2019)

MELOS is a reminiscence of the archaic roots of sound art - produced with analog modular systems. 
The individual recordings with a length of up to eleven minutes are shortened excerpts from potentially unlimited variations of sound and silence, driven by a generative modular concept.

Cover design by Thomas Breuer, 2020.

Melos

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Sociology Of Scientific Ignorance

modular synthesis / serge modular
experimental composition
live performance
sound installation

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