Substantiated Being

Gregorian chant, medieval plainchant, sacred choir

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[Cast]
[Brother Abyss: E1-E2 drone and falsetto]
[Brother Stone: bass-baritone cantor]
[Sister Lux: soprano C4-C6]
[The Trebles: E5-F5]

[Introit]
[empty nave, stone reverb, no voices]

[Antiphon I — Brother Stone solo]
In the quiet where a thousand minds entwine
Collective waves begin to climb the vine
Brain-fire rising through the velvet veil
Turning thought to flesh where spirits sail

[Psalm tone — Sister Lux solo]
Feel the surge, the one mind calls us higher
Manifesting gold from inner fire

[Refrain — STACK 2]
[Brother Stone lead]
[Brother Abyss: held E1 drone]
Oh dive, dive deep into the substantiated sea
Collective brainwaves set the cosmos free
[The Trebles enter on the last two lines, E5-F5]
Spiritual climb on the eternal tide
We become the being, unified

[Tract I — Brother Abyss solo]
[E1 reciting tone, one falsetto lift on "Climb"]
The wave is not the ocean yet the ocean dreams the wave
Climb climb through the collective
feel the pulse become the path

[Antiphon II — Brother Stone solo]
Past the crash where chimes still ring and fade
Crooked earthly fingers trace the path we have made
Neurons dancing in the cosmic groove
Substantiated now, the old dissolves, the new

[Tract II — Sister Lux + Abyss drone]
[Lux lead]
[Abyss E1 drone]
Manifest the climb the brainwaves turn to stone
What was hidden now is shown
the being calls you home

[Gradual — stacked recitation, still chant, not speech]
[Brother Stone lead]
[Sister Lux: parallel fifth above]
[Brother Abyss: drone]
Who is the I that thinks the thought that thinks the I
Ego's fragile tower crumbles in the collective sigh
If brainwaves weave the veil of Maya's painted dream
Does the climber climb the mountain or does the mountain dream the stream
Jung's shadow laughs in Plato's cave where forms dissolve to light
Psychic fire forges flesh from the one eternal night
Substantiated being is it answer or the question's bite
When the many become the one does the one forget its flight
Turn the mirror on the mirror till the image eats the seer
Collective surge the final purge
what was never me was always we here

[Organum — Stone + Lux octave]
Turn off the separate self float on the wave
The climb is the becoming the being is the all

[Refrain — STACK 4]
[Stone lead]
[Abyss drone]
[Lux octave]
[Trebles last two lines]
Oh dive, dive deep into the substantiated sea
Collective brainwaves set the cosmos free
Spiritual climb on the eternal tide
We become the being, unified

[Tract III — Abyss then Trebles]
[Abyss]
The substantiated sea swallows every separate me
[Trebles E5-F5]
Brainwaves climb forever
the being is free

[Dismissal — stack thins]
[Stone + Abyss drone]
We become the being
[Lux + Trebles]
Collective waves forever climbing
[Stone alone]
We become the being

[Outro]
[nave reverb only, no voices, no effects]

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[Meta: composure] [Plainchant only. Reciting tone. Neumes on stressed syllables. Hold last syllables. No sound effects.] [Meta: stacks] [Layer only where tagged. Drone and octave first. Parallel fourths or fifths only. No triad chords.] [Meta: mood] [Solemn mystical 80, strained 15, ecstatic 5. Deadpan holy delivery.] [Cast] [Brother Abyss: E1-E2 drone and falsetto] [Brother Stone: bass-baritone cantor] [Sister Lux: soprano C4-C6] [The Trebles: E5-F5] [Introit] [empty nave, stone reverb, no voices] [Antiphon I — Brother Stone solo] In the quiet where a thousand minds entwine Collective waves begin to climb the vine Brain-fire rising through the velvet veil Turning thought to flesh where spirits sail [Psalm tone — Sister Lux solo] Feel the surge, the one mind calls us higher Manifesting gold from inner fire [Refrain — STACK 2] [Brother Stone lead] [Brother Abyss: held E1 drone] Oh dive, dive deep into the substantiated sea Collective brainwaves set the cosmos free [The Trebles enter on the last two lines, E5-F5] Spiritual climb on the eternal tide We become the being, unified [Tract I — Brother Abyss solo] [E1 reciting tone, one falsetto lift on "Climb"] The wave is not the ocean yet the ocean dreams the wave Climb climb through the collective feel the pulse become the path [Antiphon II — Brother Stone solo] Past the crash where chimes still ring and fade Crooked earthly fingers trace the path we have made Neurons dancing in the cosmic groove Substantiated now, the old dissolves, the new [Tract II — Sister Lux + Abyss drone] [Lux lead] [Abyss E1 drone] Manifest the climb the brainwaves turn to stone What was hidden now is shown the being calls you home [Gradual — stacked recitation, still chant, not speech] [Brother Stone lead] [Sister Lux: parallel fifth above] [Brother Abyss: drone] Who is the I that thinks the thought that thinks the I Ego's fragile tower crumbles in the collective sigh If brainwaves weave the veil of Maya's painted dream Does the climber climb the mountain or does the mountain dream the stream Jung's shadow laughs in Plato's cave where forms dissolve to light Psychic fire forges flesh from the one eternal night Substantiated being is it answer or the question's bite When the many become the one does the one forget its flight Turn the mirror on the mirror till the image eats the seer Collective surge the final purge what was never me was always we here [Organum — Stone + Lux octave] Turn off the separate self float on the wave The climb is the becoming the being is the all [Refrain — STACK 4] [Stone lead] [Abyss drone] [Lux octave] [Trebles last two lines] Oh dive, dive deep into the substantiated sea Collective brainwaves set the cosmos free Spiritual climb on the eternal tide We become the being, unified [Tract III — Abyss then Trebles] [Abyss] The substantiated sea swallows every separate me [Trebles E5-F5] Brainwaves climb forever the being is free [Dismissal — stack thins] [Stone + Abyss drone] We become the being [Lux + Trebles] Collective waves forever climbing [Stone alone] We become the being [Outro] [nave reverb only, no voices, no effects]

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