Furnace and Fugue
September 29, 2020 7:04 AM Subscribe
Furnace and Fugue "brings to life in digital form an enigmatic seventeenth-century text, Michael Maier’s alchemical emblem book Atalanta fugiens.
This intriguing and complex text from 1618 reinterprets Ovid’s legend of Atalanta as an alchemical allegory in a series of fifty emblems, each of which contains text, image, and a musical score for three voices. " A multimedia object from the 17th century.
Links:
- See and Listen to Emblem 1: If Boreas once expand his windy womb...
- Talk on Oct 21 from the Warburg Institute
I can’t remember the last time I saw something this awesome.
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:59 AM on September 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 7:59 AM on September 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
I have a hazy memory of owning a print copy back in the 1980s that had an audiotape with it. Is that right?
posted by doctornemo at 9:46 AM on September 29, 2020
posted by doctornemo at 9:46 AM on September 29, 2020
What an excellent webification!
An article on emblems and their predecessors — and their sort-of predecessors, eg a hypothesis about what hieroglyphics were. (Leading to the rebus, leading eventually to bottlecap jokes.)
posted by clew at 9:47 AM on September 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
An article on emblems and their predecessors — and their sort-of predecessors, eg a hypothesis about what hieroglyphics were. (Leading to the rebus, leading eventually to bottlecap jokes.)
posted by clew at 9:47 AM on September 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
Stunning. Thanks for this vacapinta! Wow, just wow.
posted by storybored at 10:43 AM on September 29, 2020
posted by storybored at 10:43 AM on September 29, 2020
This may be the most quintessentially Warburg Institute thing in creation. It meets all of their criteria - Emblems! Alchemy! Austere music!
And it's about Ovid so they get to deal with good Latin for a change.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 7:38 AM on October 1, 2020 [1 favorite]
And it's about Ovid so they get to deal with good Latin for a change.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 7:38 AM on October 1, 2020 [1 favorite]
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And given that most multimedia projects developed in the last 30 years can't be viewed or played thanks to dead tech like Flash, Director and CD-ROMs, all the more impressive. I will begin translating my Swift code into plainsong posthaste.
posted by gwint at 7:30 AM on September 29, 2020 [1 favorite]