Silver Embers of Boleskine Manor - Sacred Geometry Sextant for Harp and String Quintet

Silver Embers of Boleskine Manor.mp3

View the score and all parts:

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It also received the 15 second harp treatment, proving the feasability of the quadruple simultaneous slide technique:

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=412071119141885&id=207034236312242

I'm not really sure how to describe this piece beyond it being like a pandiatonic to C major set theory and generative process compostion, so there's that. I will also copy past the program notes:

Boleskine

57.2653° N, 4.4747° W

Stonehenge

51.1789° N, 1.8262° W

Pyramid

29.9792° N, 31.1342° E

Use Stonehenge Longitude west as a scale degree pattern, as well as the pyramid longitude and the Boleskine longitude. In C:

Longitude Motifs:

Boleskine:

FFBFB

Stonehenge:

CcDAD

Pyramid:

ECCEFD

Binumeral Motifs:

Boleskine: 44 47 74 FF FB BF

Stonehenge 18, 26, 62, 82 Cc, DA, AD, cD

Pyramid: 31, 11, 13, 34, 42 EC, CC, CE, EF, FD

Harp can enharmonic the pyramid 3113

E/Fb, C/B#

And Boleskine 47

F/E#, B/Cb

The strings are perfect for Stonehenge.

Scordatura KB can be pyramid to emphasize that bassy Earthiness

EACF instead of EADG

9

108

12

36

72

144

666

Moon diameter:distance=1:108

Sun distance to diameter

1:108

Various gematria:

47, 74

Peace

23.5+23.5=47, mvmt I m. 47 has a pedal slide in the harp to signify the Earth's tilt.

66.66 nautical miles is 123454.32 meters. In mvmt I m 66 violin 2 plays a run of cdefgfed to represent this.

44 Baalbeck

Baalbeck is where the temple of Bacchus is.

This temple has dimensions of 66x31x35 meters! 66 and 66

The perimeter is 202m. 202 gematria leads to the great pyramid and the golden ratio.

4747 leads to '13.56 mhz applied to water vapor'. Found a study of a device with a 13.56mhz power supply, that used plasma

to extract hydrogen from water vapor. Plasma generators are upcoming 'free' energy devices, many seem to be using 13.56mhz

from the ISM rf standards.

Perhaps the pyramids are plasma generators

Earth's orbital velocity

66,648mph 4 (tetrahedron) x12 (dodecahedron) =48 4+8=12.

12 apostles. A dodecahedron is 12 pentagrammic or pentagonal faces, pentagon, 5.

Plato said the universe is a dodecahedron, which is found to explain the particularities of the cosmic microwave background.

666:108 time, tempo, beats, bars etc

666-108=558 666+108=774 66+108=174 108-66=42

Silver

Atomic mass 108

Atomic number 47

Crystal structure is cubic

Cubes have 12 faces, 6 sides, 8 vertices

Total angle degrees 2160

216/2=108

KB and Harp represent the pyramids

Strings represent Stonehenge

Tutti Represent Boleskine

3 mvmts

I. 66 bars

II. 31 bars

III. 35 bars

Architecture of the first mvmt is a binary of 35 and 31 bars. 24 bar base with 11 or 7 bars of development, 11+7 is 18, 1+8 is 9.

So write out a 24 bar base, then you can vary it in each binary section later, and then insert development episodes, cadenza,

and prologue bars ad lib to reach 11 and 7.

Architecture of mvmt II. Beat patterns follow the cube. Also, every 24 beats (8 bars) a 'sam' cycle of polyrhythms.

12 beat pattern in harp (4 bars in 3/4x2=8bar)

6 beat in kb (2 bar in 3/4x4=8bars)

8 beat in strings 2 2/3 bars (3x=8bars)

They align at 24, 48, and 72, and 144 beats

31 bars in 3/4 is 93 beats, so the biggest possible alignment is the 72 beats, which is 24 bars basis, 8bar theme x3 occurrences

with variation in each (sort of like theme and variations form).

Architecture of third movement is cube+9. 12+6+8+9=35 bars

Ratio of bars to minutes/time/length of piece

1 132 bars

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108 14256/144=99

99 is the simple gematria for new moon (silver/108 also represents the full moon), 594 is the english gematria. 594 seconds is

9.9 min, total length of the piece

I. 4/4, 66.6 bpm 66mm 237 sec

II. 3/4, 36 bpm 31mm 155 sec

Which leaves 202 sec to reach 594 so

III. 5/4 51.75bpm 35mm 202 sec

202 is temple of bacchus perimeter

66+66+35+35=202meters

Temple of Bacchus represents Helios(sun god) or Jupiter depending on which culture was using it at the time. Ratio of Jupiter's

distance from sun compared to earth's to sun is 5:1. 108(lunar)x5(solar and jovian) is 540:1. 540 is a pentagon, which is the

shape that represents homo sapiens.

The latitude of Stonehenge is 51. The Pyramid is angled at 51 degrees. 5-1 V-I G-C pretty much doesn't occur in this piece, really

only the harp ever plays a G and even then it's orchestrated under the rug. Mostly you just get the resonance of G from the G's on

the harp in sympathetic resonance with the rest of what is happening in the piece, and overtones. Thus through omission and

undermining, the omnipotent and grand significance of 51 is in a way all throughout any given moment of time in this piece.

It cannot quite be heard or seen, but simultaneously it is in a way always there, everywhere, flowing throughout.

I feel like I'm being beamed onto an alien ship! This is some very satisfying, very trippy music. I just closed my eyes and let it wash over me. You took me on a little journey. Well done!

This is way cool!

Thanks guys, it couldve easily been needlessly dissonant with the sets, but I felt the piece would be more compelling aurally if the sets wete based on c major. Making something exciting yet playable, particularly for harp was really the hard part of this work. I wanted to evoke genetic memories of the deep past, premonitions of the future, and tinglings of other worlds and dimensions; the unknown.