Symmetry is the musically symmetrical soundtrack of a journey, whether physical, intellectual, imaginative, emotional, or spiritual: ascent to an apex, and descent and return.  

The structure of the composition reflects and embodies philosophy, mathematics, sacred geometry, harmony and dissonance, and psychoacoustics.  This electronic arrangement of the composition, created on analogue synthesizers, is nevertheless inspired by early, baroque, classical and neoclassical music, as well as electronic music and minimalism.  
The challenge was to create a timeless meditative album of emotional complexity, depicting a wide range of moods from tranquil to intense, with minimal sonic elements and within various compositional limits: all pieces share the same tempo, arrangement, duration, and internal structure. Themes repeat, vary, evolve, develop throughout the various sections. Furthermore, the Ascent/Descent pairs required the composition of chord progressions and melodies that worked equally well whether played forward or in reverse.
Each successive “Ascent” modulates to a "higher" musical key and greater harmonic and melodic ascending movement. "Esse" (Latin: "to be"), the centerpiece and apex, itself internally symmetrical, is music of complete stasis, an arrival at the destination, a pure contemplation of a panoramic vista, perhaps even a state of enlightenment or mystical rapture.  Each “Descent” is a compositional reversal of its respective “Ascent”, descending in chord progressions and in successive musical keys.  

The hope is that listeners find this music to be an evocative soundtrack to their own journeys.

The work is also designed to work in essentially any genre or style.  Planned recorded versions include:  ambient, dub techno/house, neoclassical, and rock.  Songs will also be written over some of the versions. A live version of the entire Symmetry album is planned, with a mixture of electronics and acoustic musicians, and visual projections.  A version with dance choreography is also envisioned.

Symmetry

Ascent 1

"Music gives a soul to the universe."
- Plato
Music composer, producer, DJ, drummer, percussionist, sound designer, programmer. Aspiring philosopher. Seeker. Optimistic pessimist. Ukrainian-American hybrid experiment. Idealist. Wants beauty, harmony, and infinite perfection.
Music should be spiritual.
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