2 LAMPLAYERS 5000 YEARS AFTER
MUSIC WHO CROSS THE CIVILISATIONS OF TIME
Engraved stone excavated at Pompeii, representing the LAMPLAYERS in action (30 BC).
The story
of the LAMPLAYERS started in the IIIrd millennium BC at Mohenjo-Daro, (actual Pakistan) when the GENOSCOPIC KALANDAR was first conceived. A calendar with a very particular function which is to allow the musical displacement of temporalities in relation to the audience : provoking the genoscopy of thought due to the syncratic understanding of the conceptions of time in different civilizations. It exists different proofs of the genoscopic manifestations through the ages.
I.
3000 BC in Mohenjo-Daro :
conception of the Genoscopic Kalandar.
II.
1000 BC in Byblos :
conception of the " Mnemonic Disc" which is a poetic variation of the Genoscopic Kalandar: the Byblos Disc.
III.
30 BC in Pompeii :
bas-relief of the Lamplayers.
IV.
AD 0 in Rome :
conception of the Roman's games named the LUDUS MUSICAE TEMPORARIUM developed by using the Genoscopic Kalandar and the Mnemonic Byblos Disc.
V.
AD 1980 in Paris :
transcription of the Genoscopic Kalandar and the Byblos Disc. Rediscovery and deduction of the LUDUS MUSICAE TEMPORARIUM game's rules.
VI.
AD 1995 in Forgues (south of France) :
for the first time, the music from the Genoscopic Kalandar and the Byblos Disc by the LAMPLAYERS released on audio CD.
VII.
AD 1997 around the world and Internet.
sources : E. Comte, New Delhi Library, Archeological Institute of Bagdad, E. Gjerstad, G. Saflund, P. Montet, Damas Library.
definition of the word genoscopy
