Muse

The word muse is used figuratively to denote someone who inspires an artist. The band's third album, Punk Statik Paranoia, was released in 2004 through D1. The poet Sappho of Lesbos was also paid the very great compliment of being called "the tenth Muse". Gordon started his own independent record label D1 Music. One side-effect of this movement was the use of the word "museum" (originally, "cult place of the Muses") to refer to a place for the public display of knowledge. They had already severed ties with Elementree. nine Muses), and was attended by Voltaire and Benjamin Franklin. After the release of Vapor Transmission, Orgy left Reprise Records.

A popular Masonic lodge in pre-Revolutionary Paris was called Neuf Soeurs ("nine sisters", i.e. Their second album, the science fiction-themed Vapor Transmission, came out in 2000, with "Fiction (Dreams in Digital)" and "Opticon" as singles. Many Enlightenment figures sought to re-establish a "Cult of the Muses" in the 18th century. Other tours with Love and Rockets and Sugar Ray followed. The Library of Alexandria and its circle of scholars were formed around a mousaion ("museum" or shrine of the Muses) close by the tomb of Alexander the Great. Orgy made their live debut on the Family Values Tour with Korn, Limp Bizkit, Ice Cube (ex-N.W.A.), Incubus, and Rammstein. They were featured on the live compilation album of the tour, released in 1999. Muse-worship was also often associated with the hero-cults of poets: the tombs of Archilochus on Thasos and Hesiod and Thamyris (whom they blinded) in Boeotia all played host to festivals in which poetic recitations were accompanied by sacrifices to the Muses. The second single "Stitches" also gained extensive airplay.

The Muses were especially venerated in Boeotia, near Helicon, and in Delphi and the Parnassus, where Apollo became known as Mousagetes "Muse-leader". Gordon described the subject matter of the material as "...bullshit...lies and fairy tales." Their cover of the New Order song "Blue Monday" was a breakthrough hit. The Muses were also occasionally referred to as Corycides or Corycian nymphs after a cave on Mount Parnassos called the Corycian Cave. In 1998, their debut album, Candyass, was released. Other fountains, called Hippocrene and Pirene were also important to the Muses. They had yet to play a single live show. They were sometimes called Aganippids because of their association with a fountain called Aganippe. Within six months, they were signed to Korn's label Elementree Records.

Local cults of the Muses were often associated with springs or fountains. They claimed the name of the band was not a sexual reference but instead pointed to the "collage" of different styles in their music. When Pythagoras arrived at Croton, his first advice to the Crotoniates was to build a shrine of the Muses at the center of the city, to promote civic harmony and learning. Derakh had previously gained some fame in the 80's metal band Rough Cutt and Hewitt was a former member of Electric Love Hogs. Gordon and Derakh were also experienced producers. And Dante Alighieri, in Canto II of The Inferno:. club scene. .. Bassist Paige Haley, guitarist Amir Derakh, and drummer Bobby Hewitt soon completed the lineup. All were veterans of the local L.A.

Two classic examples: Homer, Book I of The Odyssey:. Orgy was formed in 1997 by vocalist Jay Gordon and guitarist Ryan Shuck. Originally the invocation of the Muse was an indication that the speaker was working inside the poetic tradition, according to the established formulae. Their music has been self-described as "electro-pop" or "death-pop.". They have served as aid to an author, or as the true speaker for which an author is only a mouthpiece. Orgy is a rock band from Los Angeles, California. The muses are typically invoked at or near the beginning of an epic poem or story. D1 Music Network (http://www.d1musicnet.com/) (Gordon's record label).

They blinded Thamyris for his hubris in challenging them to a contest. Official Julien-K Site (http://www.julien-k.com/) (Derakh and Shuck side project). They also gathered the pieces of the dead body of Orpheus, son of Calliope, and buried them. Official Amir Derakh Site (http://amir-derakh.com/). The Muses judged the contest between Apollo and Marsyas. Official Orgy Site (http://www.punkstatikparanoia.com). Solon sought to perpetuate his political reforms by establishing recitations of his poetry—complete with invocations to his practical-minded Muses—by Athenian boys at festivals every year. Punk Statik Paranoia (2004).

For poet and lawgiver Solon (fragment 13), the Muses were the key to the good life, since they brought both prosperity and friendship. Vapor Transmission (2000). Herodotus, whose primary medium of delivery was public recitation, named each one of the nine books of his Histories after a different Muse. Candyass (1998). In the archaic period, before the widespread availability of books, this included nearly all of learning: the first Greek book on astronomy, by Thales, was set in dactylic hexameter, as were many works of pre-Socratic philosophy; both Plato and the Pythagoreans explicitly included philosophy as a sub-species of mousike (Strabo 10.3.10). Paige Haley - Bassist. The Muses were therefore both the embodiments and sponsors of performed metrical speech: mousike, whence "music", was the art of the Muses. Amir Derakh - Guitar Synthesist.

The word is probably derived from the Indo-European root *men-, which is also the source of Greek Mnemosyne, Latin Minerva, and English "mind", "mental" and "memory". Ryan Shuck - Guitarist. In Pindar, to "carry a mousa" is "to sing a song". Bobby Hewitt - Drummer. Greek mousa is a common noun as well as a type of goddess: it literally means "song" or "poem". Jay Gordon - Vocalist. In Roman, Renaissance and Neoclassical art, Muses depicted in sculptures or paintings are often distinguished by certain props or poses, as emblems. Euterpe (music) carries a flute; Calliope (epic poetry) carries a writing tablet; Clio (history) carries a scroll and books; Erato (lyric poetry) is often seen with a lyre and a crown of roses; Melpomene (tragedy) is often seen with a tragic mask; Polyhymnia (sacred poetry) is often seen with a pensive expression; Terpsichore (dancing) is often seen dancing and carrying a lyre; Thalia (comedy) is often seen with a comic mask; and Urania (astronomy) carries a staff pointed at a celestial globe.

However, the association of specific muses with specific art forms is a later innovation, and has been called pedantic. Together, they form a complete picture of the subjects proper to poetic art in the archaic period. The canonical nine Muses are:. Together, they form the complete picture of the preconditions of poetic art in cult practice.

9.29.1). According to Pausanias there were three original Muses: Aoide ("song", "voice"), Melete ("practice" or "occasion") and Mneme ("memory") (Paus. Compare the Roman inspiring nymphs of springs, the Camenae. For Alcman and Mimnermus, they were even more primordial, springing from Uranus and Gaia.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, they are the daughters of Zeus, king of the gods, and Mnemosyne, goddess of memory. The Olympian system set Apollo as their leader, Apollon Mousagetes.. They were water nymphs, associated with the springs of Helicon and Pieris. In Greek mythology, the Muses (Greek Μουσαι, Mousai) are nine archaic goddesses who embody the right evocation of myth, inspired through remembered and improvised song and traditional music and dances.

Urania (astronomy). Thalia (comedy). Terpsichore (dancing). Polyhymnia (sacred poetry).

Melpomene (tragedy). Erato (lyric poetry). Clio (history). Calliope (epic poetry).

Euterpe (music).