Messenger of Dionysos · Mused by Apollo

In ancient times, Satyr was the horned and horny messenger of Eleusinian forest god Dionysos. He mesmerized the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute and made them dance till broad daylight. In our common present, the spirit of Satyr inhabits the body of a human boy.

Searching for a new way to spread the vibe of the forest, by Dionysian decree, Satyr switched to SL and CDJ instruments, which fit the job quite nicely. Apart from those, he employs the tools Apollo chose: a blank screen and virtual ink, to jot down all he likes to think - hence this his satellite here, orbiting Earth's blogosphere!

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War No More - III



WAR NO MORE - III: A Global Consciousness

"You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say:
Look at that, you son of a bitch!"

- terran sight, enlightened lunar insight,
Edgar Mitchell, Apollo 14 astronaut
seeing Earth from the Moon

a cartoon titled "A Global Consciousness",
a visual interpretation of Ed's revelation,
made by Zen Pencils' Gavin Aung Than
- click the image to see it in full


Our global village* of wondering wanderers,
a rocky, shallow shoreline of the cosmos*,
where we ask and bask in the solar surf
as we ride and bide the tides of time.

Overpopulated as some regions may seem,
this terran beach does welcome all of us.
Unevenly distributed as food may seem,
Earth provides nutrition for all.

We cannot continue to create diversion
upon division on an indefinite scale.
Some mistakes serve to instruct,
others serve as lifelong life lessons.

One day we may truly agree to disagree
and nevertheless shake hands in peace
without yet another relapse to war.


* thanks Marshall, thanks Carl


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link up to War No More - IV
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link down to War No More - I

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more War No More to follow
for as long as we choose to become
divided, opposed and prodded like cattle


.: celebrate the difference - embrace similarity :.


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all text, apart from the top quote:
Satyr Barbarossa (cc) 2015


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? what is Satyr

! in ancient times, Satyr roamed the Eleusinian forests as the horned and horny messenger of Dionysos - the god of ritual intoxication - who dispatched him to mesmerize the youth of nearby villages with the musical magic of his flute, and made them dance till broad daylight.

? where is Satyr

! in our recent past, Satyr reincarnated in the concrete jungle of Amsterdam as a DJ. At age ten, he recorded his first mix, displaying his love for early hip hop and electro, and soon his tapes were in high demand. After the Second Summer Of Love, he got turned on by new dimensions of synthetic sound and ventured into the realms of ambient, acid-house, techno and trance music, never looking back ever since.

? does he still play flute

! the Panflute has become an artefact in captivity, held safe and sound in the archeological archive of the Vatican. Yet, since them high-n-mighty early 1990s, Satyr became increasingly skilled as a player of the SL & CDJ instruments, spinning various styles of musica eclectronica, embracing a wide range of the bpm spectrum with remarkable sparkle.

Notoriously difficult to pigeonhole yet sharply focused on and specialized in ambient, chillout, psytrance & deep atmospheric techno; entertaining events for 5 to 50.000 people, by serving his spicy melange of clean cuts and dirty grooves, mixing it down and grinding it up from raw to smooth.

A few memorable events ecstasized by Satyr:
Amsterdam Dance Event (NL), Atmosphere (Berlin), Ballonnenfeest (NL), Burning Man (USA), Club A (Sao Paulo), Dance Valley (NL), Love & Magic (Oslo), Metsafestiwaal (Finland), Pan-O-Rama Festival (La Gomera), The Pi Club (Berlin), Q-Base (Germany), Senseblender Festival (Belgium), Universo Paralello (Bahia / Brazil), VooV Experience (Germany), and many more in Belgium, Brazil, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Lithuania, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain, USA & all over The Netherlands.*

* a detailed gigographic list might appear later



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