#moroboshidaijirou — Public Fediverse posts

I called this piece Susanoo ( スサノヲ ), after the Shintō god of the sea, storms, fields, the harvest, marriage, and love. “One of the central deities of the imperial Japanese mythological cycle recorded in the Kojiki (c. 712 CE) and the Nihon Shoki (720 CE)” (Wikipedia), and also the god at the center of the manga “The Dark Myth” (暗黒神話 , Ankoku Shinwa), by the great Morohoshi Daijirou (諸星 大二郎).

Susa-no-o is also the god of unexpected behavior — one that disrupts the established order by introducing chaotic, sometimes violent outbursts. In this piece, I assigned this role to slap bass — the only instrument exclusively playing quarter tones; the only character whose temperament is off the scale, if you’d allow me the pun. In opposition, pianos, marimba, vibraphone, trombones, and darboka all play in standard 12-TET.

I hope you’re going to enjoy Susanoo!

Best, Eidon.

#Bandcamp: https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/susanoo

#Youtube: https://youtu.be/nAT10gfL7oY

#諸星大二郎 #MoroboshiDaijirou #暗黒神話 #AnkokuShinwa

Music by Eidon, (c) Eidon ([email protected], [email protected]).

The video makes use of the following videos:

Zooming in on the Horsehead Nebula (3D) https://esahubble.org/videos/heic1307b/ Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); G. Bacon, T. Borders, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz 3D team, STScI); ESO. ESA/Hubble video released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

3D visualisation of the Horsehead Nebula https://esahubble.org/videos/heic1307d/ Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); G. Bacon, T. Davis, L. Frattare, Z. Levay, and F. Summers (Viz 3D team, STScI); ESO.

Hubblecast 65: A whole new view of the Horsehead Nebula — celebrating Hubble’s 23rd birthday https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/videos/hd_1080p25_screen/heic1307a.mp4 Credit: ESA/Hubble Visual design and editing: Martin Kornmesser Web and technical support: Mathias Andre and Raquel Yumi Shida Written by: Nicola Guttridge Presented by: Joe Liske (Dr J) Narration: Sara Mendes da Costa Images: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); ESO Animations: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI); F. Summers, L. Frattare, T. Davis, Z. Levay, T. Borders, and G. Bacon (Viz 3D team, STScI) Music: Steve Buick Directed by: Nicola Guttridge Cinematography: Peter Rixner (www.perix-media-gmbh.de) Executive producer: Lars Lindberg Christensen

I called this piece Susanoo ( スサノヲ ), the Shintou god of the sea, storms, fields, the harvest, marriage, love; and chaos too. "One of the central deities of the imperial Japanese mythological cycle recorded in the Kojiki (c. 712 CE) and the Nihon Shoki (720 CE)", and also the god at the center of the manga "The Dark Myth" (暗黒神話 , Ankoku Shinwa), by the great Moroboshi Daijirou (諸星 大二郎).

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/susanoo

Susanoo is also the god of unexpected behavior -- one that disrupts the established order by introducing chaotic, sometimes violent outbursts. In this piece, I assigned this role to slap bass -- the only instrument exclusively playing quarter tones; the only character whose temperament is off the scale, if you allow me the pun. In opposition, pianos, marimba, vibraphone, trombones, and darboka all play in standard 12-TET.

I hope you're going to enjoy Susanoo!

Best,
Eidon.

#諸星大二郎 #MoroboshiDaijirou
#暗黒神話 #AnkokuShinwa

The picture that I used is an elaboration of a classic work by Toyohara Chikanobu (豊原周延), "The kami Susanoo-no-Mikoto slays the eight-headed beast Yamata-no-Orochi. After slaying the beast, Susanoo found the sword Kusanagi-no-Tsurugi in one of the eight tails of the gigantic serpent." (日本語: スサノオとヤマタノオロチ), circa 1870s. Source: Artelino.com and Wikipedia (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/YamataNoOrochi.jpg). Work in the public domain. The elaboration includes a picture of the horsehead nebula as drawn by Moroboshi Daijirou in his manga.

https://eidon.bandcamp.com/track/susanoo