Azathoth - "violet midnight glittering with dust of gold" (H.P. Lovecraft) | Piano Improvisation
Channel: Ambrosia & Nepenthe
Date: 2021-11-14

A portion of the Azathoth Fragment music, which I think also stands well on its own. I had initially intended to release this as its own video, but then was inspired to compose music for the earlier paragraphs as well. The passage associated with this piece begins with the following quote:

"There came to that room wild streams of violet midnight glittering with dust of gold; vortices of dust and fire, swirling out of the ultimate spaces and heavy with perfumes from beyond the worlds."

The music is the second part in the Azathoth Fragment video here (at timestamp 4:24): https://youtu.be/vFaz-smYeB4?t=264

I came across Alisa-san's fractal image named "Azathoth" on DeviantArt, inspired by the same passage of the text, and I thought it really fit well with this piano improvisation. 

Azathoth, by Alisa-san: https://www.deviantart.com/alisa-san/art/Azathoth-49384147

Final paragraph of Azathoth, by H.P. Lovecraft:

There came to that room wild streams of violet midnight glittering with dust of gold; vortices of dust and fire, swirling out of the ultimate spaces and heavy with perfumes from beyond the worlds. Opiate oceans poured there, litten by suns that the eye may never behold and having in their whirlpools strange dolphins and sea-nymphs of unrememberable deeps. Noiseless infinity eddied around the dreamer and wafted him away without even touching the body that leaned stiffly from the lonely window; and for days not counted in men’s calendars the tides of far spheres bare him gently to join the dreams for which he longed; the dreams that men have lost. And in the course of many cycles they tenderly left him sleeping on a green sunrise shore; a green shore fragrant with lotus-blossoms and starred by red camalotes.

https://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/az.aspx