An old photograph of a the back of a man in an top-hat standing outside of a building's heavily elaborate arched stone masonry doorwaym, looking up.

Ridendo dicere severum

Gavin Gamboa

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1. The rational mind in the heat of frenzy

9:11

2. Speculum venenosum magnum naturae

4:02

3. Guileless as doves

5:40

4. Invisible and incomprehensible silence

2:26

5. Quasi-Cantilena

1:15

6. Saturn's salt

1:51

7. Sol y Luna

2:55

Ridendo dicere severum (2025)

Gavin Gamboa

"Wherever there is a ruin, there is hope for treasure …why do you not seek the treasure of God in the wasted heart ?" — Rumi, Diwan-i kabir ya Kulliyat-I Shams (1247)

"There is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers." — Theodore Roosevelt, Letter to Sir Edward Grey (1913 September 15)

"We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim." — Walter Benjamin , On The Concept of History (1940)

"A weak messianic power belongs to the living generation, those human beings who share this moment in time." — Susan Buck-Morss , Seeing <―> Making: Room for Thought (2024)

Recorded and Mixed by
Gavin Gamboa
Kawee’nga Studio
Los Angeles, California, United States
2022

Artwork
The Portal of Saint Ursinus at Bourges, rue du Vieux Poirier 1854

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