Boethius · Musica mundana · Humana · Instrumentalis
Harmonic Keyboard
What would musica mundana becoming musica humana becoming musica instrumentalis sound like?
Keys. Waveforms. Ratios of the spheres. Play.
Touch a key when you are ready. A440 lives near MIDI 69. The Book hears both the seal and the song.
Song, seal · Eros
Fly Me to the Moon
A song that returned like a scene from a film.
In the living chronicle, Fly Me to the Moon reduces to 69. Structure and song meet in one phrase. A440 sits near MIDI 69 on this keyboard.
On July 24, 2023, under a Venus-retrograde sky, she spontaneously sang and danced to it: a song unheard for over a decade. Joy flooded her heart. She did not yet know she was already in love.
Mercury spoke through the body before the mind caught up. Venus had already opened the door.
The spheres do not need a sermon. They need a hand on a key, and a heart willing to move.
“A440 · near MIDI 69 · the relational current under the finger.”
Maye Musk, A Woman Makes a Plan · p. 42 · whistling, humming, happiness · Fly Me to the Moon.
Boethius
Mundana
Harmony of the cosmos. Spheres, seasons, the great ratios.
Boethius
Humana
Harmony of body and soul. Number becoming conscious in a life.
Boethius
Instrumentalis
Heard music. The craft that lets the other two be recognized.
Field film
Keys A–K · Blacks on W E T Y U · Octave slider