Crystalline/Glacial

Either of you read Mount Analogue?

"One finds here, very rarely in the low lying areas, more frequently as one goes farther up, a clear and extremely hard stone that is spherical and varies in size—a kind of crystal, but a curved crystal, something extraordinary and unknown on the rest of the planet. Among the French of Port-des-Singes, it is called peradam. Ivan Lapse remains puzzled by the formation and root meaning of this word. It may mean, according to him, "harder than diamond," and it is; or "father of the diamond," and they say that the diamond is in fact the product of the degeneration of the peradam by a sort of quartering of the circle or, more precisely, cubing of the sphere. Or again, the word may mean "Adam's stone," having some secret and profound connection to the original nature of man. The clarity of this stone is so great and its index of refraction so close to that of air that, despite the crystal's great density, the unaccustomed eye hardly perceives it. But to anyone who seeks it with sincere desire and true need, it reveals itself by its sudden sparkle, like that of dewdrops. The peradam is the only substance, the only material object whose value is recognized by the guides of Mount Analogue. Therefore, it is the standard of all currency, as gold is for us."

version said:

Either of you read Mount Analogue?

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Yeah, bit slight. Not much to it. Not keen on the film either.

Bells, as Barty says, synths of course (coldwave) but also sax at times, Jan Garbarek.

He died before he finshed it tbf. That's why it just stops mid sentence.

The far north as a spiritual state and how it operates in opposition to its other pole, the south.

The patron saints of dissensus have some icy, crystalline tunes.

This is all similar to what I was on about re: the surface, I think.

version said:

This is all similar to what I was on about re: the surface, I think.

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Yes because your surface thing was about the smooth surface, frictionless, like ice, or glass, or crystal.

Arnie and Schumacher's Mr Freeze.

luka said:

Yes because your surface thing was about the smooth surface, frictionless, like ice, or glass, or crystal.

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Something like the Koner record is interesting because I also associate 'the surface' with a lightness, a lack of mass, whereas his stuff is all about weight, glacial movements.

version said:

Something like the Koner record is interesting because I also associate 'the surface' with a lightness, a lack of mass, whereas his stuff is all about weight, glacial movements.

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I agree, the metaphor is working in a different way there.

The weight seems to slow time. That might be why the other thread felt hollow and bleak according to barty, the lightness is slippery and fleeting. It slides away. The glacier versus ice in a cocktail glass.

I think broadly speaking Barty is constitutionally opposed to coldness. He likes invoking
the blood in the veins, pressing up against a warm arse, friendly hellos, don't worry be happy, the milkman's whistle.

I associate warmth with mess and cold with organisation.