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SERIES 001 · 2026
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APOCALYPSE - For They Say That Hell Is On Earth
Koyaanisqatsi is the ghost note, a world running out of rhythm, hell arranged as ordinary ground.
Koyaanisqatsi
Out of Balance
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Hopi. Life out of balance. A world moving at a speed that no longer fits the living inside it.
The word
Hopi, commonly rendered as life out of balance, a state of living that calls for another way. Godfrey Reggio borrowed it in 1982 for a film with no dialogue, only accelerating footage and a Philip Glass score, because the word had no translation and the condition had no better portrait.
The feeling
The specific dread of speed. Everything works, nothing is right. Feeds refresh, traffic flows, the sky glows at midnight, and underneath it runs a low certainty that the pace itself is the disease. It is not personal anxiety; it is the sense of a whole system running hot.
Against its neighbours
Anxiety lives in one body and worries about a future. Koyaanisqatsi is a diagnosis of a world, felt personally. Dread waits for an event; koyaanisqatsi says the event is already running, and everyone is inside it.
In the work
Scale gone wrong on purpose. Forces too large for the frame, a body dwarfed by what it set in motion.
1 work composed with Koyaanisqatsi
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