“If music be the food on love, play on.” — Willie the Shake — image: AleXander Hirka and Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Beethoven’s Fifth Nightmare

An Autodidactic Polymath’s Journey Through Sound — Part 1

aleXander hirka
4 min readJan 27, 2022

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The Beatles’ opus “Revolution №9” was released on their “White Album” on 22 November 1968.

I was exactly one month away from turning 17. This audio montage, which some of my friends chose to skip over, opened my ears and mind to the endless possibilities of music and sound—far beyond what was…

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aleXander hirka

Writer, visual artist, philosopher, autodidact, curmudgeon. More than half of what i do is make believe. https://alexanderhirka.nyc