MuPsiManifesto

Mu-Psi is the sonic counterpart to Sci-Fi. Mu-Psi is to music what science fiction is to narrative. It is sound-art that seeks to transcend the personal and to express universal concepts, patterns, and processes. Just as a science fiction begins with the premise of some possible future universe and proceeds to fill in the details and consequences of that premise, a Mu-Psi sound work begins with a hypothesis, a “what-if” premise, and proceeds to explore the ramifications of that premise.

Art has a purpose and plays a powerful role in society. The artist's mission is to:

• Stimulate imaginative thinking, discussion, and creation of alternative worlds, solutions, possibilities

• Entertain by stimulating the intellect

• Guide audiences along paths through abstract conceptual spaces

• Invite the audience on an intellectually challenging journey from which they will return refreshed, rejuvenated, and inspired

• Create sonic metaphors for powerful universal concepts (not personal psychological trauma)

• Create an ecstatic experience for the audience (in the original sense of ek stasis -- to be outside or beyond one's self).

• Play within a set of constraints; experimentally violate one or more constraints to explore the ramifications

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