Across the spectrum of Ambient, Electronic, New Classical and New Age music we find a common metaphor: the journey. It's music for virtual travel, for progressive ascent towards a goal, arrival at an apex, descent, and return.
New York composer ZENON MARKO has given classic architectural form to the experience by making it rigorously symmetrical. His album SYMMETRY, he says, "is a musically symmetrical journey — whether physical, intellectual, imaginary, emotional, psychological, or spiritual." As if serious music wasn't already difficult enough, the entire album is symmetrical, with the descending sections as actual reverses of the ascents.
On this transmission of Hearts of Space, the power of form, and the powerful sound of heroic ambient electronics, on a program called SYMMETRY. Music is by ZENON MARKO, SENSUALISM, KEVIN KELLER, CHRONOTOPE PROJECT, HAMMOCK, MAX RICHTER, and TOM EATON.
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Wonderful show as always. Please note the gorgeous photo of the James Webb Space Telescope, like all optical devices, is in fact symmetric when fully assembled. The photo shows 6 of the 18 hexagonal mirrors that make up the JWST. See the following link to see that photo as well as other photos that show all 18 mirrors that are symmetrically arranged with respect to the central tower.
https://www.jwst.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html
Posted by: Steven Grindle | 09 September 2021 at 06:47 AM