Today sees the premiere of The Fall of Metatron, the new music video from MIRA新伝統, the performance and audiovisual duo formed by Honami Higuchi and Raphael Leray. Based in Athens but originally founded in Tokyo, the pair have become known for their haunting blend of sound, ritual, and philosophy. Their creations often feel suspended between the sacred and the synthetic, merging Shinto-inspired gestures with post-industrial atmospheres to explore how myth might survive in the digital age.
The Fall of Metatron envisions the descent of Metatron, the scribe of God and celestial intermediary, as a rupture in myth. Rather than illustrating a divine catastrophe, the video stages an act of transformation. The archangel’s form dissolves into Lambdochian, a symbolic language invented by the duo from lambda-calculus diagrams and Lojban phonetics. It is both a code and a prayer, where logic meets poetry and data becomes ritual. Minimal yet immersive, the film unfolds with a meditative rhythm. Fragments of light and movement evoke an atmosphere of controlled tension, suggesting a world in which technology itself becomes sacred. The fall becomes a rewriting, a reconfiguration of myth in times of cultural collapse. Every frame feels deliberate, choreographed like a ceremony of translation.
The track, released last week, offers a glimpse into Mythoplaxy, MIRA新伝統’s debut album out January 16 via Infinite Machine. The record gathers eleven compositions that move between electronic ballads and mythogenic fragments, conceived as “the rudiments of a symbolic architecture.” Through these pieces, the duo imagines the myths and ruins humanity might choose to carry forward, echoing the thought of philosopher Federico Campagna.
With The Fall of Metatron, MIRA新伝統 extends an invitation to descend, listen, and decode. Theirs is a language of sound and image that refuses to separate the human from the divine, a poetic system where even collapse becomes creation.
