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Friedrich Nietzsche’s metaphysical model of time and the world operates under a single core virtue: chance. Chance is the world’s only necessity, implying that anything can occur in any way at any given time regardless of logical strictures and common sense. Eternal return implicates a world pervaded by a perpetual and mercurial becoming absconding even the ‘one who experiences’, whom in actuality is indeed just another aspect succumbing to this perennial chance-world.
This eternal chance-world is also one of infinite experiential possibility by dint of its eternity. Nietzsche claims that in this eternity all existence is endlessly present; acknowledgements of the past and future coexist in the present, merely referencing different moments. The world’s perennial and mercurial becoming cannot support a past, which would imply an impossible dead moment, nor a future, which would defy the chance necessity. In this way, everything that exists is always present to experience but what you see if what you are looking for, what you’ve been conditioned to see.
One who attempts to defy chance by formulating and unflappably adhering to concrete safety-assurance procedures (physics, sentence structure, body-image standards, logic, etc.) begins to lose connection with chance, the meaning of the world. This fearful world-brawler will start to experience the world through his fallacious strictures and will continuously disappoint himself when the immanent chance-necessity defies him. Nietzsche’s übermensch, among many other definitions, is the one who neither defies nor is strangled by chance, but is ensconced within Eternal Return as its wanton agent.
My sonic interpretation of Eternal Return utilizes two primary illustrative concepts: Earth and Sky. The Earth is the primordial and catalytic chance that constitutes the world and its becoming. The Sky is how it manifests as experience. The Earth was depicted through a low-frequency sine-square wave and a high-frequency sawtooth wave that sporadically underwent pitch, volume, and pan modulation to intimate the meaning of the Earth, chance. Recordings of ambient noises in my bedroom and outside of my house constituted the Sky. As the ambient noises began to take a particular form (car driving by, steady wind, somebody talking, etc.) the sounds of the Earth would fade out. As the sonic focus is taken away from, for instance, a particular car sound the Earth fades back in. This flux represents the tension between a fearful world-brawler and the übermensch within the confines of Eternal Return.
Thus Spoke Zarathustra 