Lost Dreams - Part I

1 week ago by @candle

Liner Notes

#一sýƶýģý一 #ambient #nietzsche #philosophy #theantichrist #nihilism #übermensche #archive一dot一org #vocalsamples #hgfortune #fsm #wde #minimalism #jeskolabuzz #jeskola



I've been puttering away at this bit of a massive track for about a week now. I'm not 100% satisfied with it, maybe because I don't often do #minimalism because I'm always wanting to add "more stuff" to the soundscapes I create. This time, I reigned in that urge & kept things relatively simple. Sound sources for this one consist of HG Fortune's Avatar ST & Silver Orbit VSTi's, as well as an FSM ArpMan (Native Buzz Machine). The vocal is taken from the audiobook reading of Freidrich Nietzsche's The Antichrist, available on archive.org. It's played back via WDE's Audio Block ((Native Buzz Machine).

I have decided to release this in four parts, as well as the complete 12+ minute track at the end for all to enjoy in whatever way they prefer. This is Part I.

Nietzsche. Probably the most misunderstood, misinterpreted, & misrepresented Philosopher in History. His ideas were twisted by the Nazis (which he would have been angry about, as he was completely against Antisemitism - something that was the origin of his beef with Wagner) thanks, in part, to the ideas of his sister. But when you actually dig deep into what he says on a fundamental level, he not only makes one think, but urges all of Humanity to be better. In the words of his infamous character Zarathustra: "Mankind is something to be overcome!" I don't think there are many other thinkers who have looked at our modern world & given us a more hopeful path to finding our purpose & happiness in this life.

Tho, I don't agree with him 100%, he has had a massive influence on my own philosophy.

See You In The Shadows…

GEAR
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Lyrics

The Antichrist - Preface
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This book belongs to the most rare of men. Perhaps not one of them is yet alive. It is possible that they may be among those who understand my “Zarathustra”: how could I confound myself with those who are now sprouting ears? —First the day after tomorrow must come for me. Some men are bom posthumously.

The conditions under which any one understands me, and necessarily understands me— I know them only too well. Even to endure my seriousness, my passion, he must carry intellectual integrity to the verge of hardness. he must be accustomed to living on mountain tops —and to looking upon the wretched gabble of politics and nationalism as beneath him. He must have become indifferent; he must never ask of the truth whether it brings profit to him or a fatality to him. . . . He must have an inclination, bom of strength, for questions that no one has the courage for; the courage for the forbidden; predestination for the labyrinth. The experience of seven solitudes. New ears for new music. New eyes for what is most distant. A new conscience for truths that have hitherto remained unheard. And the will to economize in the grand manner—to hold together his strength, his enthusiasm. . . . Reverence
for self; love of self; absolute freedom of self. . . .

Very well, then! of that sort only are my readers, my true readers, my readers foreordained: of what account are the rest?—The rest are merely humanity.—One must make one’s self superior to humanity, in power, in loftiness
of soul,—in contempt.

Freidrich W. Nietzsche

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