On a different topic: Perhaps I’m confusing my history but did the collaboration of Lord Rampion and Excelon ultimately threaten the fabric of space and time as (in performing what was to become their final piece) their essences merged and issues of phase and sympathetic resonance began to affect the music of the spheres and, resonating backwards through time, the very words of making? Wasn’t someone forced to make the heart-wrenching decision to stop them, shattering their fused form and sending shards across this and other worlds. I’m intrigued by whether the shards truly became the rocks perched upon by Sirens, parts of David’s harp and Joshua’s horn and the inlays of a very particular Fender bass.

• • I’ve been thinking about Excelon and Rampion.
    in the beginning was energy vibration resonance
    the word
    resounding throughout all of the space and time it brought into being
    its sustain sustaining existence
    energy vibration resonance
    the elements of the baby’s first heart piercing cry
    of the gentle thunder rolling over distant plains
    of the crash of a rose petal and the earth colliding
    of every particle of every molecule of every celestial body
    the essence and whole of the entire symphony of the cosmos
    the musica universalis
    perfection
    safe in its incomparable incomprehensible complexity
    safe from phase cancelation by replication
    safe from the unsympathetic forces of sympathetic resonance
    unattainable and unassailable
    the collaboration of excelon and rampion
    the whole more than the sum of their arts
    perfecting reflecting
    energy vibration resonance…