… noise is violence…
It is a simulacrum of murder.
…music is a channelization of noise…
… a simulacrum of … sacrifice.
Jacques Attali in Noise (26)
Genesis 4 is violent. And noisy.
Listen; your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground!
Gen 4:10 (NRSV)
Now Cain fears violence against him. God proclaims a deterrent by promising a seven fold vengeance.
But Lamech, Cain’s descendant poetically multiplies vengeance to seventy fold.
The first poem in Gen 2 exuded oneness while this one is about tearing down.
And Lamech the violent, noisy one is the father of Jubal;
he was the ancestor of all those who play the lyre and pipe.
Gen 4:21
Is Jubal the musician now the priest? The one who provides a simulacrum of sacrfice?