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Rhythm: The Human Language
As I write to you,
I am on a voyage surfing across time freeing myself from the tangible grid that we use to measure it into a comprehensible idea.
It’s true.
It’s a construct.
That phrase means so much more than we know, more than we have time to explain.
I’m not good at explaining things, so I’ll give an example:
Play this song alongside the 1995 film, Ghost in the Shell.
You caught it?
None of that was deliberate.
From that foundation, we can build to the greater point.
The next example would be to give a background as to how this song was created:
This song started with the overdriven dissonance of a Yamaha PSS-460. We’ll call this bass.
The melody comes next. Imperfect ramblings of a Korg Volca Keys through a Korg Monotron Delay. This sequence was totally driven by instinct and emotion. It’s very incorrect in terms of music theory. Hold on to that. What’s important to note now is that Ghost in the Shell was not playing during this melodic phase. Nor was it even considered as part of the creative process of this experience. Nor was this phase of the project altered to match the rhythm set by the bass; it is purely an emotional response to the bass.
Finally: rhythm.
The drums come last, only out of necessity. In order for this experience to be communicated, there needs to be a language; a grid to tie the idea to.
The truth is, time flows at it’s own rhythm. We have been conditioned to tie things to tangible measurements, when our entire existence is unstructured, uncontrollable, unexplainable.
As I write this, people worldwide are in resistance. Resistance to the grid. Resistance to the oppressive stillness that aims to measure and explain reality.
It all comes back to time.
The song happens align with the progress of GITS. I’m sure it also aligns with other films or choreography or visual pieces of any kind.
This is only because there is a common rhythm that time plays to. There is a constant flow of things with no beginning, no end that all things must follow on an abstract level. A “breathe of all things” to quote Eiichiro Oda.
The establishment. The oppressive force that we face globally. Their power is defined only by the construct of time that they have placed on us.
Everything must fit into a binary. A binary that is dictated and commanded by “time”. An idea of time that is forced upon all of us as the foundation of authority that we must answer to.
This authority is fragile in that it’s foundation is vulnerable: time.
My partner, Najla taught me that if we were to decide tomorrow was December 31, year ???? (Random, meaningless, etc.) humanity, the flora and fauna, the stars and planets alike would continue on their path as if nothing happened. It would be the established authorities, built on the foundation of “time” that would crash and burn.
I think to the idea of “tesseract” in A Wrinkle In Time. It makes no sense by the means we have been given, that one can fold time to skip forward as needed. This is only impossible because of the structured grid that we have tied time to— ignoring the fact that time existed and flowed long before that grid was created. It will exist long after that grid is destroyed.
With respects to my own history and heritage, language was stripped from us. We were not allowed to live alongside others who spoke the same language as us. We were not allowed to speak to one another or hold assembly.
This reigns true throughout several points of “Black History” or rather, the oppressor’s minimizing of a fight that stretches back further than they are aware of. What also reigns true, is that my people were able to convey hidden messages through mediums that could be understood across linguistic and cultural barriers. Rhythm: The Human Language.
It’s not my purpose to explain the message, only to deliver it: time does not belong to the oppressor. The oppressor aims to define time because that is the fragile foundation upon which their “superiority” is built.
The way this message is interpreted and applied is dependent upon you as the individual receiving it. I am not your leader. I am just another messenger.
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