This is my soundtrack for Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The House of Asterion," which retells the myth of Theseus and Ariadne from the point of view of the Minotaur. Despite the brevity of the text, Borges' tackles some monolithic themes: birth, abandonment, rejection, solitude, imagination, memory, desire, free will, language, the self, the-world-as-labyrinth, death.

In one particularly sweet moment, we read of the Minotaur spending time with his imaginary friend, "the other Asterion". They play and laugh together. As that laughter reverberates around the infinite house, we may hear - in its dying fall - a quiet summons to make space for the mental lives of others, however different they appear from our own. In today's climate, perhaps our differences are to be re-read as reminders of what we have in common. For we have all been thrown into the labyrinth, and we all have reasons - and they are not necessarily our own reasons - for staying inside, wanting to venture outside, or simply ...

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Borges' "The House of Asterion" identifies the number fourteen with infinity. Therefore, this soundtrack contains fourteen compositions, some of which also embody the number fourteen in their rhythmic patterns.

Several of the songs use small sections from surviving fragments of ancient Greek music, kindly supplied to me in MIDI form by Professor Stefan Hagel:

www.oeaw.ac.at/kal/agm/

For more information on this soundtrack, please visit:

howthenightcame.wordpress.com/2019/02/03/fawm-2019/

A complete sequence of videos for versions of these tracks can be viewed at

www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLK95_uwvCJwCG7wbxPxq2g1Ystbiv18zW

Album art was derived from:

commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maestro_dei_cassoni_campana,_teseo_e_il_minotauro,_1510-15_ca._(avignone,_petit_palais)_01.jpg