Originally Posted by animarorecords
Chay,
It's a truly fantastical video.
I don't know if it has any religious meaning or not.
I think the music is the perfect soundtrack for this video.
Also, I don't really care about left and right in stereo.
For example, the placement of drums from the performer's side and the listener's side are completely opposite.
There are also mixes where the violin and cello are intentionally swapped.
So please don't worry too much about that.
Enjoyed my listen and watch a lot.
Best regards.
Shigeki Adachi

Dōmo arigatō, Shigeki san. The Deya (Goddess) is a character from my novel "Quest of the Solar Flower". Deya is her name, also the name of her planet and her title as the leader of her planet's peoples who is always a female and the most consciously evolved - thus she's Deya the Deya of Deya. For me she also symbolises the Divine Feminine which is found in all spiritual traditions - the Yin of Yin & Yang, Quan Yin to the Buddhists, the 2nd H in YHVH, Shakti to the Hindus, Sophia to the Greek Gnostics, the Virgin to Christians, White Buffalo Woman to the Lakotah Sioux, etc, etc, and probably Amaterasu to Shintoists. So spiritual rather than religious.

Regarding channels, I as a right-handed person tend to take the view as when seated at a piano and drum kit. The piano's high keys are on the right, so I like the high notes to be biased right; plus the drums' floor tom-toms to be heard mostly right, the snare to the left. The rest is personal preference, for example the default channel for the organ when taking a BiaB sample is that it's always to far right, but I much prefer it to the far left. I like the bass to be heard just left of centre as when I was drummer in my teens the bassist was always to my left. Depending on the piece, the rhythm instruments can be centre, left or right depending on what else is in the mix, then when there are 2 solo instruments they should never be on the same side. But the main issue for me is that 99% of my listening is on headphones and when I listen to the channels reversed - not as I intended them - it all just sound wrong to me. So I am definitely going to remix everything I've done as I want my music to be heard the way I intended it to be heard.

Some favourite Waoist Adages:
#1: Play on the Way.
#13: Ask not for whom the flower blooms, it blooms for you.
#58: Bring consciousness to it.
#63: On the road to effortlessness, effort must be made.
#92: Be Love Now, the rest will come on its own.