This song is tribute to Giovanni Pico della Mirandola and his Oration on the Dignity of Man. The up and down aspects of the piano and horns represents the vasillations of raising and lowering conscious experience. The "electric-banjo" (as one friend calls it) takes over the song as an orthogonal, but ever present ladder between the two. It ultimately fades away, but its repetition can also be remembered through meditative practice. Pico was a platonist and so Plato's numbering system is present here: horns and cello hold 4 notes, representing the tetrahedron and physical reality. The piano holds 8 notes, representing the octahedron and the ability to turn physical reality, the tetrahedron, on its head (rectification.) The organ holds 10 notes, outling the path of the tree of life. The "electric-banjo" holds 48 notes, which is a multiplication of a tetrahedron and dodecahedron (4x12), which transforms physical reality to the shape of the universe as a whole.
