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Megas Diakosmos

from Primeval Sonic Atoms by Stelios Manousakis

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Megas Diakosmos (2011) ('Μέγας Διάκοσμος', roughly translating to ‘The Great Order of the Universe') takes its name from the lost cosmological treatise of Leukippos, an ancient Greek natural philosopher of the 5th century BCE. In this treatise, Leukippos introduced for the first time an Atomic Theory of cosmology that appears surprisingly comparable to contemporary cosmological theories. Very little is known about the work but according to remarks of other ancient writers Leukippos postulated that the universe consists of tiny, invisible, indestructible, unchangeable and indivisible 'Atoms' (the 'Being') differing only in size and shape, and of 'Void' (the 'Non-being'), that exists in-between atoms and has also material properties, although different. This infinitely expanding and contracting void allows atoms to move and collide eternally, creating and destroying matter, new bodies, and our world, but also a vast number of other worlds in the universe, some inhabited some not.
Leukippos' atomic theory and turbulent cosmogonic vision form the conceptual and experiential starting points for the composition, its sonorities and their development throughout the piece, as well as for the system and sound synthesis methods used. The system is a cybernetic model based on digital feedback and implemented as a sonic complex dynamical system – mathematically similar to a cosmological entity or universe in motion. This sonic universe is defined by the sample-by-sample interactions of a single binary digit (one, or ‘being’) moving incessantly within a world of Void (zero, or ‘non-being’). This digit floats and collides, is fused and split from cloned copies of itself, thus creating countless sonic bodies in states of equilibrium, oscillation, chaotic behavior, noise and silence.
Although Megas Diakosmos is a fixed medium piece, all the different ‘worlds’ (layers and sections) were performed in real-time using a hands-on, live electronics version of the system to maintain an aspect of ‘in-time’ timelessness, and to accentuate the primal and visceral character of the composition.

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from Primeval Sonic Atoms, released August 7, 2020
Grabado en - Recorded at Fremont, Seattle, USA | Febrero/Marzo February/March 2011

Previously released on Mind the gap 90 by Gonzo (circus).
Publicado previamente en Mind the Gap 90 por Gonzo (circus).

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