Visionary Music

The phrase "visionary music" can mean a lot of things.  This is a space to discuss revolutionary and progressive ideas in music as they are expressed through new instruments, new ways of conducting music business, new means of recording and performing music, and new applications of music in other contexts (for example, musical maps of geographic data for blind engineers, and musical translations of genetic codes as an educational instrument).

It also gives us a space to bring a mystical critical perspective to things that would otherwise be considered "normal" musical topics – showing how certain albums express occult symbolism, detailing grand
overarching patterns in the evolution of music (and how that relates to the unfolding of the entire universe), and discussing the scientific, sacred, and spiritual dimensions of so-called "mundane" music.  These are ways of getting people to see the magic in everything musical, regardless of its refinement - to "hear the world with new ears.”

From a certain perspective, the whole universe exists because of interfering wave patterns, and can be considered (and experienced as) a vast symphony.  In fact, scientists and philosophers since time immemorial have used the metaphor of music to elegantly describe the “how” of our world.  (I frequently think about the “visionary music” of life and death, or the dance of galaxies – a far bigger context than we’re used to, but one that seems equally valid to me.)

This is an exploration of the world in all of its transcendent splendor and immanent sensuality, of the futures that disclose themselves to us through dreams and trance, and of music as the window through which we understand the universe and each other.

Lastly, I hope that we will use this forum to share the awe and beauty we find in the world.  There’s enough griping out there already.  Let's be mindful of the energies we bring to these discussions, and assume responsibility for the mind-altering "visionary music" of our conversations.  :)