FUN FACT: there was a Russian composer during the late 1800’s/early 1900’s named Alexander Scriabin. He was a bit eccentric. Amazing pianist, great composer, really made strides in atonal music. He wanted to end the world. You see, he subscribed to Nietsche’s philosophies. Especially concerning the next stage in evolution, the ubermensch, or superman. Scriabin believed himself to be of a higher intelligence than a normal human, the next step towards the ubermensch. He concocted an idea in 1905, a great and terrible idea, that would give mankind freedom from the morality plagued by different gods. He wanted to save humanity… by destroying it. To do so, he planned Mysterium… not just a written symphony but an event. It would take place over the course of 7 days in a temple specially made at the foothills in the Himalayas. There he would combine all of the senses and all of the arts: music, dance, light, touch. The audience would be an assembly of the initiated, the higher human beings. Instead of a performance, it would be a worship… a ritual. This perfect combination of the senses and the arts would trigger a universal response… and the apocalypse. Now he’s mostly forgotten, except for a few of his more popular piano works. So no matter how crazy you are in life, at some point nobody will care. You’ll just be some dead composer with a dream.