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• Temple of music (Robert Fludd)[1]

Relics by Nick Mason

[Relics] Cover of Relics that Nick Mason drew (1971). This is suitable for band by a graduate of architecture, so that it looks like the building made by musical instruments. The whole looks like one musical instrument, and seems to be a completely mechanical symphony orchestra. There is a handwritten letter of "A BIZARRE COLLECTION OF ANTIQUES & CURIOS", and the half for fun is just like Mason to play so. If this is created in the image of The Music of the Spheres, Astronomy Domine etc is exactly.

Temple of Music drawn by Robert Fludd. The Pythagoras group which investigated divine order thoroughly has an idea of "The Music of the Spheres" (the miraculous music which occurs by revolution of a sphere, but mankind cannot hear it), and Fludd left a figure of one instrument "the music of the universe" to play it. This Temple of Music may be a fictitious symphony orchestra of extension of The Music of the Spheres, too. This does not look like Nick Mason's drawing directly, but the intention may be the same, though I'm not sure.

This is not enlargement of the upper right, is another figure. This is completely the same as a booklet of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn of the lower right. The left is Apollo flipping a lute, the right is Marsyas playing a reed pipe and instruments of both sides of doors are harp, organ, cornet, violin, sitar, lute. Then two central doors express ears, and a spiral pattern of the top is music.

It is said that the Fludd defined that "sounds are what occurs traveling in the form of a spiral and a circle when air given a shock vibrates." We'll image a ripple drawing a spiral toward a labyrinth in the ear of Meddle. Cherubs (angels serving a temple with the wings) are drawn in a concentric circle on spirals, and it lets us associate "Celestial Voices" in the last of A Saucerful Of Secrets.

This is the stuff from a page of Matilda Mother in booklet of The Piper at the Gates released in 1994. As for woman's figure at the lower right it's unknown, but there is borrowed Fludd's surely in the background. A designer often borrowed an ancient figure as an ornament, but I suppose that the designer Storm Thorgerson magnified a spiral part because he knew a meaning as the left.

I suspect that Pulse's cover with a circle constitution is influenced by Fludd's symbolic figures (there is plural, for example this figure).

Floyd book by Mason rumored for eight years seems to be published at last in September, 2004. It will become one as his personal memoirs, instead of public one as Pink Floyd. If so I'll count on talks about a cover of Relics drawn of his own accord. He drew up tour programs with handwriting of 1975 and also drew up a logotype and lyrics card of Animals, so that he is nearer to draftsman than the painter like Syd Barrett.