Beautiful Life – Gui Boratto
It’s 8 1/2 minutes long, which feels like absolutely nothing, or maybe an eternity. Your whole body quickly falls into place – your heart beats with the song, you can feel it dancing on your skin, your muscles tense in time. You’re not listening to the song – you are become the song and it is you. Even more, you can’t really be sure there is anything other than the song, that there was ever a time before it, or could be one after. Before long, such questions themselves become meaningless as you start to truly grasp what is meant by infinity.
And then, it’s over, and you’re back outside wondering if it even happened at all, or if you’re now 510 seconds out of sync with the rest of the world.
You have a few seconds to ponder whether Gui Boratto is really a codename for some super-secret project delving into the deepest secrets of relativity, time dilation, and quantum mechanics before it starts over and you’re lost again.
I really do believe that if we ever do discover a way to build a Stargate, the only thing you’ll remember about traveling through these rifts in space-time will be the sound of “Beautiful Life.”
The album is Chromophobia, and if you ever find a way back to this plane of existence, you’ll want to get yourself a copy.