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Invocation No. 2 "Fish, Father, Phoenix"

from Invocations 180g Vinyl LP by Christopher Bono

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Invocation No. 2:
“Fish, Father, Phoenix”
“Fish, Father, Phoenix,” the second leg of the triptych, explores the process of aging, transcendental anxiety, and man’s place in the birth-and-death cycle of the natural world.
This piece experiments with the context and tone of cut-up samples of my father’s voice mixed against a varied palette of field recordings of animals, insects and elements taken while traveling through South Africa and Botswana.
Through composing this piece,
I hoped to express one individual’s subconscious states by playing with the diverse perspectives of their personal thoughts and observations.
Like the experience one receives by practicing meditation, when thoughts and perceptions roll before the meditator in a seemingly dream-like and unpredictable manner,
I constructed a musical portraiture;
as if the listener could experience
the inner workings of the subject himself, and hear his questions, cares, reflections, likes and dislikes as they dynamically floated across his mind.
I then set this personal psychological experience against the backdrop of a musical journey that narrates the process of awakening leading to new incarnations.
The title “Fish, Father, Phoenix” was chosen based on my research into Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings
of All Ages. Hall recognizes the fish as a traditional symbol for the life germ. Spiritually, the fish represents life force and the potential for creation and change. Scientifically, it represents the lower levels of evolution.
In many ancient cultures, when alluded to in a negative connotation, the fish represented man’s own lower
and primitive nature. “Father” represents my own, as the piece is
dedicated to him; but on a larger scale, it symbolizes the present evolutionary state of humanity and the suggestion of the developmental continuum of existence.
The mythological “Phoenix” represents the unknown, the
next plane, future, rebirth, and transcendence. Thus, the title invokes the full cycle of time and continuation: past, present, future --- Fish, Father, Phoenix.

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