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Dr Recht: They could be another Pytha- singing of the muezzin, the Dies Irae, and
gorean tribute. They are the numbers of again the millenarian perspectives. Yet, it
the tetractys, the equilateral triangle with is not all tragedy: there is also room for
base 4 and vertex 1 with the two interme- farce. The tune you hear is a piece that
diate stages 3 and 2. Often, each stage is mocks Von Braun and his indifference to
associated with one of the elements - the his missiles’ rainbow-trajectories.
base being earth, heaviness, rising to wa- Dr Mart: And what about the abundant
ter, followed by air and finally, at vertex 1, presence of tritones?
there is fire. It is an upwards thrust, whi- Dr Recht: Could Schwarzkommando
ch we can interpret both metaphorically ever not love dissonance? By cyclically
and technologically. repeating a tritone, the human ear no
Dr Zam: Once again, the rocket. Howe- longer discerns whether it is an ascen-
ver, I would also add an allusion to pro- ding or descending interval. Once again,
gress, to a certain form of finalism, to a the coincidence of opposites, the end of
quest for perfection. the principle of non-contradiction. Haiku
Dr Recht: No objection to that. Among 9 reads: “The tritone - music leads us to
other things, the presence of the egg - the anti-syllogism”. Diabolus in music.
an original cosmic symbol but also a sign
of alchemical perfection, of the return
to original purity after the corruption of
matter - suggests that Schwarz likes to
play catch-up. He is pure codified fire
and wants to make a heretical reverse
journey towards corporeality and thus
descend towards the earthly base of the
tetractys.
Dr Mart: Could that be why a bonsai tree
is planted in the egg?
Dr Recht: The roots are certainly in the
ground, and the soil needs to be culti-
vated.
Dr Zam: So, if the bonsai alludes to cul-
tivation, could the egg allude to bree-
ding? If so, Schwarz is talking about the
basis of all civilization.
Dr Recht: Certainly, but the bonsai is
more than that, for it is also a living being
lovingly kept in a state of containment.
As it comes out of the egg-origin, we can
interpret it as a sign of space-time con-
traction.
Dr Mart: We are left with this old radio.
Dr Recht: After breeding and cultivation
comes industry, especially the communi-
cation industry. The radio is a tribal drum,
the ancestor of our cosmic messages.
Dr Zam: Let us not forget that it is the me-
ans through which the sonic part of the
symbolic corpus through which Schwarz
revealed himself to us.
Dr Recht: Indeed, here are religions, the

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