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I consider this album to be the second best after "Ima". I always thought of BT as a mediocre EDM artist as the majority of his albums didn't have much to offer (except ofcourse for "ima" and maybe "ESCM").This album though is really stunning!
I like how BT uses scientific concepts for his song-titles. Coupled with the overall electronic epic listening you somehow get strong sci-fi imagery and hollywood "star-gate like" epic scenes in your mind.
But yea the titles are great. "Dynamic Symmetry" is a natural proportional design system that is based on the "Fibonacci sequence" and as a result to the magical number "Phi", or, "1,618..." which is another great tune of the album!
The "internal locus" is an extension of the psychological concept of the "locus of control" which information can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locus_of_control
It was developed by Psychologist Julian Rotter in the 50s. According to Rotter, people always attribute the situations and make decisions in reference to two "loci" the "external" or the "internal". People whose attributes and decisions are based in "external loci" are those who are literally guided by their environments rather then by themselves e.g. "i scored bad on the exam because the questions were difficult"or "BTs new album is good because various TAs say so" whereas the opposite is true for an "internal locus"("loci" is the latin plural of "locus") e.g. "i scored bad on the exam because i haven't studied" or "BTs new album is good because i like the aesthetic qualities of the new album's music". The "external" and "internal" loci are not stable, discrete entities. They rather represent a continuum in which people could fall in between or have an overall behavioural style (e.g. personality) that is more representative of one "locus". (Depressive people are known to feel helpless and not capable of leading their lives, that is, they over-attribute theit behaviour to "external loci" rather to "internal" ones, they feel like "puppets" in the hands of random chaotic puppeters-that is-people and circumstances.)
And a bit of archaeology, "the Antikythera Mechanism"
( picture and information can be found here)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
is the most ancient analogue computer in the history of humanity!It was discovered by the greek archaeologist Valerios Stais at the beginning of the 20th century in the island of "Antikythera" in Greece, which, guess what, is situated opposite to the island of "kythera" ("Anti"-"Against"). One theory attributes its creation to the ancient greek philosopher and scientist "Poseidonius", a great thinker who was based in the island of Rhodes. Other archaeologists have supported the view that the current mechanism was designed by the famous Archimedes who it happened to be a friend of Poseidonius.
The "Antikythera Mechanism" is an analogue mechanism of great complexity and complex design which puzzled archaeologists for years. Its exact function is still unknown, but scientists suspected that it was used for complex astronomical calculations,that it was an "astrolabe". In a recent article i've red in New Scientist, a team of scientists now propose that maybe it was used to predict eclipses of the sun and/or the moon. Either way, the current mechanism is the earliest computer in the history of humanity, dating back to 150-100 BC. It's great mystery even made some people like Erich Von Daniken to propose their usual crackpot theories of alien influences in the ancient earth, something that i find extremely funny.
Whatever the Antikythera Mechanism is, the track in this album is a really GREAT track!That's for sure!
Last edited by PETRAN on Dec-04-2006 at 16:04
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