Category: Music

Exploring music and its place in magic, religion, and spirituality

The Quaternary Number

As a learning exercise with DaVinci Resolve, I created a music video for a song I made earlier this year. The song was primarily recorded using a bunch of Korg Volca synthesizers and some additional sound effects and soundscaping in Reaper.

I used three different MIDI keyboards and a bunch of sound effects to create this soundscape-rich taiko-drum-driven musical interpretation of the story of Katharina Kepler and how she was accused of witchcraft.

Isaac Newton was a complicated human. Though he revolutionized our understanding of the physical world with his laws of motion, he was obsessed with alchemy, Biblical prophecies, and King Solomon’s Temple. Was the founder of modern science an alchemist and magician? Perhaps. But that is not what we are here to discuss today!