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Cyberpunk in particular played itself out long ago, but the more general theme of a peer-to-peer-networked digitized society is at least as relevant as it ever was, the possibilities for artistic inspiration in the classical Western tradition at least as ripe even now.

Image is Charles Edward Perugini's "Pandora's Box".

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If that whole ecosystem hadn't gotten into the modernist anti-timeless-beauty funk where nobody likes any of the new stuff, leading to e.g. the opera canon becoming frozen in time, we would have seen e.g. a profusion of really popular cyberpunk operas in the 1980s.

Image is of Wagner's Sieglinde; change a few accessories and she wouldn't look out of place in a cyberpunk city.

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I wonder why digitality didn't serve as an inspiration in the late 20th century for a full-classical-orchestra musical movement, e.g. notes evoking 0s and 1s, sounds evoking moving through vast networked webs. At least none nearly as prominent as e.g. the romantic movement. 🤔🎶

Image is a pixelated version of "Treble clef nebula purple posterized" by yours truly.

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I'm actually optimistic about civilization's revival later in the 21st century and beyond; we're in the earliest stages now. But like classical antiquity before it the Long 19th Century stands as the high-water mark, daring its successors to widen their horizons and go further.

Image is "Siegfried leaves Brünnhilde in search of adventure" by Arthur Rackham (1911).

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Rather freakishly, this high-water mark is also near the high-water mark of innovation and economic growth rates, and though past peak liberalism was still going strong. Hot take: Western civilization peaked on the evening of August 17, 1876.

Image is "Brünnhilde on Grane leaps onto the funeral pyre of Siegfried", page 180 from Arthur Rackham's "Siegfried & The Twilight of the Gods" (1911).

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If "Der Ring des Nibelungen" is the high-water mark of opera (which it is) and opera is the high-water mark of Western art (which, per Gesamtkunstwerk, it is), then Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle stands as the high-water mark of Western art as such.

Image is a photograph of the Rhinemaidens from the Bayreuth premiere in 1876.

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I'm giving a listen today to Carl Orff's magnificent "Carmina Burana". "O Fortuna" is the most famous and fulminating part of it, but the whole thing is great from start to finish!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEllLECo4OM

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Because there's no such thing as too much beautiful music, too much lovely concert pianists, or too much Anna Federova, here's her great performance of Scriabin's Sonata-Fantasy.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyqxFSUfD7A

If you want to add some beauty to your day in a most pleasant way, I invite you to watch and listen to the adorable and very talented Anna Federova performing Chopin.
https://youtu.be/r5HBECcWzEM

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