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to delineate chaos bewitched

from music for Moby​-​Dick: part 1 by driving off the spleen

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the Spouter Inn by Tyler Svedin

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"It is among the most memorable moments in American literature. At the start of Chapter Three of his masterwork, Moby-Dick (1851), Herman Melville has his protagonist, the existential castaway Ishmael, newly embarked on his fateful commitment to go a-whaling (is it a kind of suicide? a mere lark? both?), push open the door of a port-side rough-house for boozing mariners: the so-called “Spouter-Inn."

It is dark. It is dank. Savage weaponry from cannibal isles spikes the walls. And those who hunker at the bar are renegades and isolatoes, gruff men of the sea. In the half-light, Ishmael immediately discerns, in the entryway itself, like a warning over the threshold, “a very large oil-painting."

Ishmael pauses. He puzzles. He peers. He even goes so far as to pry open a little window in the vestibule, to shed some light on a most inscrutable, a most intractable, a most maddening canvas: “Such unaccountable masses of shades and shadows, that at first you almost thought some ambitious young artist, in the time of the New England hags, had endeavored to delineate chaos bewitched.”

Chaos Bewitched
Moby-Dick and AI
By Eigil zu Tage-Ravn
publicdomainreview.org/essay/chaos-bewitched-moby-dick-and-ai/

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from music for Moby​-​Dick: part 1, released August 1, 2016

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driving off the spleen Houston, Texas

"It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation."
(Ishmael / Moby- Dick)

ambient, electronic, and experimental concoctions created with cabalistical contrivances and literary / political pretensions

an experimental music collaboration for Ross Irwin and Harry Leverette
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