{"id":50951,"date":"2026-02-12T12:44:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:44:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idea.membrane.com\/songwriter\/?p=50951"},"modified":"2026-02-12T12:44:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T12:44:18","slug":"what-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/2026\/02\/12\/what-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"What Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence]<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental, Guitar, Whistle, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums]<\/p>\n<p>[Intro]<br \/>\nHey, man<br \/>\n(Butterfly)<br \/>\nIn what begins&#8230;<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Whispered Vocal]<br \/>\nTiny motion, motion, motion (wide)<br \/>\nButterfly<br \/>\n[Instrumental \u2014 Syncopated Bass Pulse, Organ Flickers, Delayed Guitar Echo]<br \/>\n[Guitar Riff \u2014 fractured, off-beat]<br \/>\n[Snare March \u2014 slightly staggered]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 1]<br \/>\nShift a grain<br \/>\n(Change the sky)<br \/>\nDrop of rain<br \/>\n(Multiply)<br \/>\nSmall mistake<br \/>\n(Big cascade)<br \/>\nLines that break<br \/>\n(Rippled braid)<br \/>\nHey, man<br \/>\n(Butterfly)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nIn what begins&#8230;<br \/>\n[Instrumental, Whistle Hook \u2014 playful but slightly off-time]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nHey, man<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t you see?)<br \/>\nEvery move<br \/>\n(Seeds the sea)<br \/>\nBend the curve<br \/>\n(Set it free)<br \/>\nStrange attractor<br \/>\n(Entropy)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nIn what begins&#8230;<br \/>\n[Instrumental \u2014 Organ Swell, Rising Synth Filter]<\/p>\n<p>[Verse 2]<br \/>\nLoop the loop<br \/>\n(Feedback hum)<br \/>\nFuture\u2019s group<br \/>\n(Where we\u2019re from)<br \/>\nEdge of phase<br \/>\n(Flip the state)<br \/>\nSimple phrase<br \/>\n(Complicate)<br \/>\nHey, man<br \/>\n(Butterfly)<\/p>\n<p>[Bridge]<br \/>\nCome on, man<br \/>\n(Nonlinear)<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat Drops Out \u2014 Sub Bass Alone]<br \/>\nOrder hiding in the blur (there)<br \/>\n[Scream Vocal]<br \/>\nAmplify!<br \/>\n(Classify!)<br \/>\n[Instrumental Build \u2014 Drums Re-enter Polyrhythmic, Guitar Ascends in Uneven Phrases]<\/p>\n<p>[Chorus]<br \/>\nHey, man<br \/>\n(Can\u2019t predict)<br \/>\nWhat begins<br \/>\n(Interconnects)<br \/>\nEvery spark<br \/>\n(Architects)<br \/>\nStrange attractor<br \/>\n(What\u2019s next?)<\/p>\n<p>[Breakdown]<br \/>\n[Organ Drone, Bass Oscillation]<br \/>\nFractal fire<br \/>\n(Self-similar)<br \/>\nClimb the wire<br \/>\n(Regular)<br \/>\nNear and far<br \/>\n(Spiral tight)<br \/>\nChaos theory<br \/>\n(Holds it right)<\/p>\n<p>[Instrumental \u2014 Extended Jam, Guitar &#038; Organ in Call-and-Response, Rhythm Slightly Shifting Time Feel]<\/p>\n<p>[Outro]<br \/>\nHey, man<br \/>\n(Butterfly)<br \/>\n[Minimal Beat, Whispered Vocal]<br \/>\nTrace the pattern (in the sky)<br \/>\nHardwired?<br \/>\n(Amplified)<br \/>\nFrom a whisper<br \/>\n(Worldwide)<\/p>\n<p><strong>From the album &#8220;<a href=\"\/albums\/Macroscopic-Perspective\/\">Macroscopic Perspective<\/a>&#8220;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Silence] [Instrumental, Guitar, Whistle, Organ, Synth, Bass, Percussion, Drums] [Intro] Hey, man (Butterfly) In what begins&#8230; [Minimal Beat, Sub Bass, Whispered Vocal] Tiny motion, motion, motion (wide) Butterfly [Instrumental \u2014 Syncopated Bass Pulse, Organ Flickers, Delayed Guitar Echo] [Guitar Riff \u2014 fractured, off-beat] [Snare March \u2014 slightly staggered] [Verse 1] Shift a grain (Change the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-4d-music","category-chaos-theory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50951"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50952,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50951\/revisions\/50952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kingarthur.com\/songwriter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}