Monday 31 December 2012

What's with the Name, “Visionete Artdevel”?


The deeper intention was to encapsulate what the project is about:
graphic music videos whose visuals render an interpretation of the
musical structure of the accompanying sound track.

Nete was one of the three original ancient Greek Muses.   As these
classical femmes fatales lured voyagers — to their doom should they
succumb — by the charm of their art, Nete played the bass strings of
the lyre.   Regarded as the Muse of song, variously known as Nete,
Aoide or Cephisso, the lowest note of the lyre was named after her.
The bass normally plays a deep structural rôle in terms of harmony.
I feel irresistibly drawn to her…

Thus we have it, Vision–Nete, with elision on the N.   Classical
scholars may demur at the incongruity of Latin and Greek etymologies,
to which I can only counter, hey, this is word play, not a work of
scholarship. 

On the face of it, I guess Visionete suggests a diminutive of
vision.   If the reader will pardon an element of self-parody, this
could apply to the realization of this project in its early stages,
compared to where it could potentially (hopefully…) go.   That said,
it could also be a concession to reality.

Artdevel, pseudonymous surname, is meant to be a contraction of art
of development (be it mathematics, code or artwork) or a nod to the
process of developing art.   Again on the surface, there may be an
askance allusion to art devil  — as in dæmon for art, or even Mann's
Faustian Leverkühn.   If so, I'd take it wryly with respect to mental
health caution as creative/artistic/original thought often involves
considerations against the grain of the mainstream.

† Incidentally, the word music derives from ancient Greek,
art/craft of the Muses, where the latter syllable, τεχ,
is the familiar stem in technique, technology, etc.

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