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CerebralMix Episode 17: Intersections In Four
Table of Contents
Introduction
Welcome to the Cerebral Mix Episode 17: Intersections In Four
Host: SoundChaser
This week’s show takes a slightly different format. As I was working my
way through the back catalog of music, I found that I had a number of
tracks from EP’s that were just waiting to be played. In particular,
one EP was an ambient work from Abyssal Plains, and another a more
Trip-Hop Jazz fusion oriented work.
While stylistically they works are very different, I found that the
shared a common element: the number four.
In the first half of the show, we are going to hear the “Fourth Quadrant
of the Mandala” by Abyssal Plains. The mandala comes from the Buddhist
and Hindu belief systems. They are frequently used for meditation and
as a spiritual teaching tool.
In the second half of the show, we are going to hear “The Hard Changing
of the Seasons” by Zero V. This work builds on many of the past jazz
masters to present a different way of looking at the changing of the
seasons.
Track Credits
| 00:00:00 | Opening: Broken Music Box | Transient | Hammerpants | BY-NC-SA |
| 00:01:27 | Sugar Rush | Abyssal Plains | Fourth Quadrant of the Manadala | BY-NC-ND |
| 00:07:20 | Dali Dream | Abyssal Plains | Fourth Quadrant of the Manadala | BY-NC-ND |
| 00:12:21 | Colour Faded | Abyssal Plains | Fourth Quadrant of the Manadala | BY-NC-ND |
| 00:15:40 | Dragonfly | Abyssal Plains | Fourth Quadrant of the Manadala | BY-NC-ND |
| 00:19:50 | ID Break: Zone | Transient | Hammerpants | BY-NC-SA |
| 00:20:39 | A New Awakening | Zero V | The Hard Changing of the Seasons | BY-NC |
| 00:28:29 | Indian Summer | Zero V | The Hard Changing of the Seasons | BY-NC |
| 00:33:20 | An Evening in October | Zero V | The Hard Changing of the Seasons | BY-NC |
| 00:39:08 | A Winters Day | Zero V | The Hard Changing of the Seasons | BY-NC |
| 00:53:05 | Closing: Broken Music Box | Transient | Hammerpants | BY-NC-SA |
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Closing Note
Beyond the seaons and the Mandala, there are quite a few other things
that occur in fours:
- The four corners of compass.
- The key aspects of luck (belief in luck, rejection of luck, being lucky and being unlucky).
- The four leaf clover.
- The Meyers-Briggs four dichotomies of personality.
- The hour horsemen of the apocolypse (death, war, famine and pestilence)
- The four gospels (Matthew, Mark, John and Luke)
- Musical quartets: string quartets, vocal quartets, etc.
- The common time in music: four beats to a measure.
- The four elements (earth, fire, wind and water)
- And even: the four suits of a deck of cards (which could by way of gambling, ironically be linked back to the aspects of luck).
Numerologists probably have a field day with the number four and all of
the symbolism around it. In the case of our listening, four tends to be
quite well represented. In the case of the recordings today, two
seeming disparate subjects found a common ground through the number
four.
Who’s to say there isn’t something to things that relate to each other
through numbers in some way?
And with that final though we have reached the end of another episode.
I hope you will join me again next week for another adventure into the
sounds between thoughts on The Cerebral Mix.
Numerologists probably have quite a field day with the symbolism
surrounding the number four. In the case of our listening, the number
four tends to be quite well represented. In the case of the EP’s
presented on this show, two seemingly disparate subjects found common
ground through the number four.
So, who’s to say there isn’t something to things relating to each other
through a commonality in numbers?
And with that final thought we’ve reached then of this week’s episode.
I hope you will join me again for another journey through the sounds
between thoughts on The CerebralMix.