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Qui: Musica Ostium Infernum
Quid : Liber Primus
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Quid est?
Musica Ostium Infernum is a collection of songs written
as witness to the events of Buffy Summers and the characters
that affect her world. However, rather than plot-oriented
ballads, they commemorate the overlying, timeless, and
philosophical issues conflicting the personae.
Quare?
Because.
Every civilization has a mythos (if not many) of its
time to which the populus can relate. The Greeks had
Zeus, the Norse Odin, the Egyptians Ra, the Chinese
Dou Mu, and so on. These mythos serve not only as archetypes
of the zeitgeist for the contemporaries in that culture,
but they help later generations and cultures to understand
a little more richly and deeply. The finer semantic
details of "our current culture" notwithstanding,
the trials of Buffy serve well what so many myths before
have served their respective cultures. They offer entertainment,
edification, education, enlightenment, escape, and everything
else required of truly timeless characters and situations.
They give us anchors to which we can attach our abstract
concepts to help us understand situations, to help us
express our feelings and cope with situations. They
give us mediums to further convey our own thoughts to
others by providing the vehicles that both parties can
understand, to which both parties can readily relate.
Archetypes.
And as the many of the people of these cultures were
prone to do, they focused their creative endeavours
on these mythos. Countless works have been written,
marble chiseled, paintings stroked, and songs sung as
direct derivations. Much toiling has ensued to further
immortalize or galvanize our muses.
So it is as with Buffy and the characters that populate
her world.
Musica Ostium Infernum is the third-party witness to
the episodes of Buffy, cantatas and ballads from the
unseen bard of Sunnydale. The songs are written expressedly
for fellow followers and aficianados but hopefully approachably
for others not yet privy to the saga of Buffy.
Qua emo is?
A limited edition, hand-printed, hand-made, hard-cased
book with libretto and compact disc will be available
soon online.
Digital downloads are currently available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/micahbarnes1
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