First published at 04:43 UTC on February 1st, 2018.
An old song from college, around 2002. I was doing research on ancient Greek music when I came across a story by Plato where Socrates was playing a game with a mathematician. They were trying to find the perfect formula, and the calculation Socrates…
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An old song from college, around 2002. I was doing research on ancient Greek music when I came across a story by Plato where Socrates was playing a game with a mathematician. They were trying to find the perfect formula, and the calculation Socrates came up was one that eliminated the number 6, that supposedly represented humans It was, in a certain way, as if to state that if you wanted perfection, then you can't have humans. This gave me the inspiration for this piece which I call the Tyrant Song because, more often than not, tyrants strive for perfection, and, as the modern dictators show, this often leads to a deadly end sum game where the tyrants desire to eliminate humanity in order to achieve their perfection. The pattern of the music reflects this, as the song sounds in good, even 'perfect' or utopic harmony, but something's not quite right, and you could call this the cognitive dissonance, whereby the 'perfection' shows its dystopic result. A pretty package, but a deadly prize can be the result of seeking a suicidal perfection.
Check out more of my music at Bandcamp and my home site on Wix. I'm also on Minds.
https://jcrawf79.bandcamp.com/
http://jcrawf79.wixsite.com/johncrawford/music
https://www.minds.com/Iohannes
Artist name: John A. Crawford
Song name: Tyrant Song
Software Used:
For Music:
Audacity 2.2.1
copyright © 1999-2018 Audacity Team.
Audacity is a registered trademark of Dominic Mazzoni
http://www.audacityteam.org/
Cakewalk Sonar Artist (Version 23.7.0 BUILD 37 [2017 - 07] x64)
Copyright © 2017 Cakewalk, Inc.
https://www.cakewalk.com/Products/SONAR/Buy-Now/SONAR-Artist
Sibelius 8.7.2
Copyright © 2018 Avid Technology, Inc.
http://www.avid.com/sibelius
For Picture:
Paint.NET (Current Version: 4.0.9).
Copyright © 2017 dotPDN LLC, Rick Brewster, and contributors -
Official website: http://www.getpaint.net/
For Movie Compilation:
OpenShot Video Editor 2.4.1 .
Copyright 2008 - 2016 by OpenShot Studios, LLC
https://www.openshot.org/
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