#01011001

[frogfrogfrogfrogoose]

Y

#this one was super fun to color #ayreon #01011001 #planet y #my art #alcohol markers

[progressive-waves-art]

EVERYBODY SHUT UP

#ayreon #01011001 #AAAHASHSAAGFHDGGH

[direw00f]

My theory abour Mr L and The Hippie

So the poll has decided that I do this theory first, it is an interesting one that I do not see a lot of people have but it is the first thing I concluded when listening to all of the Ayreon albums. So what is this interesting theory? The Hippie from Into The Electric Castle is the same character as Mr L from 01011001.

Before I get into this theory of mine let's get some basic information out of the way. I know there is people that follow me with limited information about Ayreon so I want to make this theory as clear as I can for them! First up I have to explain The Forever as they play a role in my theory. I will not get into their entire story because that will take way too long and is not as important. So the Forever are an immortal race of aquatic aliens they originate from planet Alpha but when computers took over the planet they fled to Planet Y where they evolved into an aquatic race to adapt to their new planet. The same substance that allowed them to evolve gave them psychic abilities and slowly stripped them of emotions. They send a comet with their dna to follow the migrator trail to a suitable planet, earth. The Forever did this to live through the experiences of the humans and experience emotions again. Which leads me to the next important bit of information for my theory:

The setting of Into The Electric Castle and The Hippie One Forever we know as Forever of the Stars has taken 8 mortals from different periods in human history together as an experiment. They have been given one directive to get to the electric castle to get back home, there is some hurdles to overcome and not everyone survived. This album is where we meet the Hippie and get into his struggles, he is one of the survivors which is an important bit of information. While the survivors do not remember anything and think it was just a dream the Forever gave one gift to each of them, they all woke up feeling as something have changed within them. Now important to note is that The Hippie seemed more aware of what happened than the rest of the surviving cast which will tie into my theory.

Mr L and his dreams As I have briefly noted in my other analysis Mr L appears in one song The Truth Is In Here where he talks about strange dreams he had. And it talks about the futile attempts to sing about Ayreon's (the character) vissions which landed him into a mental hospital. Not only does the song reference Ayreon it also references the Hippie and the Forever, he seems to get dreams about being a Forever swimming underneath the waves of Planet Y. He also referes to the Forever always being with him and being his guide.

How does this all tie into my theory? Arjen has stated that when a character shares a voice in his story that they are linked in some way. We can see that with Hansi's characters for example on the Source the prequel album he plays an Alphan escaping to Planet Y and on 01011001 he plays one of The Forever. Ayreon (the character) is a past life of both Mr L and The Colonist (from The Universal Migrator) now this link easier despite the fact that both Ayreon and The Colonist were depicted by multiple singers. In the official comic for The Universal Migrator all three share the same face and we can see Ayreon float around Mr L as he writes the lyrics for The Final Experiment. The Hippie is being portrayed by Arjen both on the album and the live concert and so is Mr L. At the period The Hippie was alive it is reasonable to assume that he eventually developed into Mr L who is more mature and has had contact with The Forever before. It is not unreasonable to assume that the little gift of Forever of the Stars eventually leads to The Hippie seeing Ayreon's visions and dream of The Forever. It is estabelished that Ayreon recieved the visions from the time telepathy expirement because he is more connected to that. We know this trait can be shared with future incarnations, how do we know that? Merlin, he is the one to talk to us from 2084 and he saw the future. Merlin is a seer a trait he eventually passed on to his future selves. The Colonist and all of his past incarnations are all more connected to the Forever and the Universal Migrator.

This is why I think why The Hippie and Mr L are the same character just on 2 different albums and under different names. Let me know what you all think and feel free to call me stupid if you do not agree with me. Anyways my analysis on The Knight will still be done later because I have lots to say about him (I love him so much).

#ayreon #wolf speaks #into the electric castle #01011001 #arjen lucassen

[mayhemspreadingguy]

Our roadtrip to the Ayreon concert in Netherlands is unfortunately nearing it's end. The only thing left is the disgustingly long ride back home. But it was sooooo worth it!!! The best concert I've been to so far! It's incredible that they were able to get together all these great artists who collaborate on this amazing rock opera music project! And the acoustics were impressive (surround sound and all - especially as I was standing in the middle of the hall). And the stage design was also great. Wbwjbwjs idk what to say - everything was great.

Oh also, we were staying at the Ayreon campsite, and bonding with the people from all around the world over music was something very special. Just sitting around the campfire and chatting... Vibes (⁠ ⁠ꈍ⁠ᴗ⁠ꈍ⁠).

Aaaaaaaargh insane experience ✧⁠◝⁠(⁠⁰⁠▿⁠⁰⁠)⁠◜⁠✧

#are there any Ayreonauts out there? #ayreon #live beneath the waves #01011001 #arjen lucassen #mayhem travels #also this baby is skipping the first few days of the new semester like a criminal that she is #hehe that's not gonna be fun but worth it! definitely! it was a once in a lifetime experience. one does not simply miss an Ayreon concert 👌

[mistray-art]

» Day 23 » Forever » 01011001.

[23 november 2022]

#ayreon #mistray's ayreon art challenges #01011001 #forever #art #digital art #character art #character illustration #illustration #digital illustration #huevember #huevember 2022 #artists on tumblr #clip studio paint

[sea-of-machines]

I tried to design an outfit for Forever Hansi

#I didn't want to make him have a fishtail #so I gave him trousers :) #hansi kürsch #ayreon #01011001 #my art

[age-of-shadows]

you know when you think seeing your favorite album live will tone your fixation down but it actually ends up making you worse

#ayreon #ayreonposting #01011001 #i am not the same person i was before live beneath the waves #shitpost #meme #prog #prog metal

[sourcreamuwu]

Something in the beginning of The Fifth Extinction ☄️ (rip dinosaurs 🤧)

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Finally, coming up with techs. It was hard for me, because generally I have some sort of fear towards artificial things in humans body, though most technologies in our world are great! ( prothesises or cardiostimulators, for example) And I never really liked cybernetic characters or cyberpunk aesthetic,but I like the story in Ayreon, so here we are.

In the future I want to make them some techs RIGHT ON THEIR SPINES!!11!! it would look cool, but the more you think about it the more terrifying it looks (don't think about it too much please... I have now this itchy feeling in my back xd )

#fanart #art #ayreon #01011001 #forever

[liquid--eternity]

By far my favourite thing about Comatose is how if you take a moment to stop and listen, your heartbeat will always sync up with the one you can hear throughout the song. (because music magic)

And in that moment it stops being just lyrics in all the songs. About how the Forever are living and feeling and dreaming through humans.

In that moment you're part of it. It stops being just a song and it's now within you.

And that's important to me in a way I can't describe with just words but I had to share it anyway.

#the fish make me cry #ayreon #01011001 #This album is so important to me you have no idea #am I taking it too seriously? #yes #but I won't stop

[frogfrogfrogfrogoose]

can i get the whole gang to say hi 👀👀

#ayreon #arjen lucassen #the final experiment #universal migrator #transitus #01011001 #into the electric castle

[progressive-waves-art]

Old Source long-form comic concepts 🧪⚙️

Clockwise from top left: Biologist (Planet Y is Alive), Opposition Leader (Star of Sirrah), Astronomer (The Day That The World Breaks Down), and Counselor (Run! Apocalypse! Run!)

#ayreon #art #the source #01011001 #floor jansen #Tommy karevik #hansi kürsch #simone simons #fanart #arjen lucassen #comic art #illustration #concept art #sketch #progressive waves art #rock opera #concept album #science fiction #progressive metal #folk metal #power metal

[direw00f]

The promised (sort of) rant about Ayreon (the character)

Alright so if anyone asks me about my favourite character ever it has to be Ayreon and I want to share why I like him so much! First up a small introduction to Ayreon (the project) for my mutuals or anyone that stumbles upon this. Ayreon is a prog rock/metal project by Arjen Anthony Lucassen every album has a story and most albums tell the same story. In all albums he gets guest singers to bring his story to life and in most album the different singers play different characters. Two exceptions to this rule is The Colonist from The Universal Migrator albums but his situation has a logical explination and we are going to dip a little into the story of this album as Ayreon makes a little appearance. Now the second exception is the character I will talk about now! As I will talk about the project's first ever protagonist from the first ever album The Final Experiment released in 1995 (this year is important as I will discuss later!). Now how this will go is I will analyse every song of the album and analyse the lyrics and how it relates to the love I have for Ayreon. Now as Ayreon gets described and introduced in the first song of the album, let's get right into this!

Track number 1: Prologue

So this is our introduction to the album as a future incarnation of Merlin talks to us from 2084 about Ayreon. 2084 is an important year in the Ayreon universe as it is the death of earth, so Merlin explains that scientists have developed "time telepathy" to send visions of humanity's demise into the past with the hopes of changing the future. These visions have been recieved by a BLIND MINSTREL living in 6th century Brittain, this is Ayreon and it is his task to warn humanity about it's disastrous future. Now do I have to say anything about the fact that the only thing this poor man now can see is destruction and death? So we have our basic introduction to our story and got a basic overview of our poor protagonist, his story will not have a happy ending sadly. The melody in this is sometimes the same as in the song Merlin's Will, I guess this is our audio cue for our wizard here.

Track number 2: The Awareness (technically Dreamtime)

Soooo first up what is up with the song name well this album is divided into 4 acts, somehow The Awareness and another act got split but while this song is called The Awareness the portion of the act we're talking about is called Dreamtime (Words Become A Song). So to be clear: The Awareness is the current act of the story we're in, the segment we're talking about is Dreamtime. This clear? Ok! Let us get on with the analysis. Let us start with the banging opening lines: "A cry in the silence, a shine in the dark Like a rising star, the dream is coming Images of violence, a flight through time and space It's such a lonely place; the dream is coming The smoke is rising, the vision's getting clearer And words become a song in the dreamtime" So this is our first look into Ayreon's head and just look at those fancy words, you can clearly see that he is a poet of some sort. So these visions appeared to him in dreams and his mind immediately started writing lyrics to a song. It is also the start of his issues with the visions (yay!) he is clearly distressed by the visions and nothing shows this more than the next song of our little saga:

Track number 3: Eyes Of Time

He is awake! Yay and oh boy here comes the crisis and a beautiful description of what he feels at this moment, again I will post the first verse because it is so beautiful and Eyes Of Time is my favourite song of this album with it's catchy chorus and beautiful lyrics. "I cannot see with these eyes! My world is black, like a cold eternal night I could not tell you no lies! My words are lost, in a shroud of mystery" So yeah..... the description of his world being as black as night is a frequent one we see associated with Ayreon as we will talk about later. So this is Ayreon trying to make sense of these visions he wakes up with as he puts it later "I see the world through the eyes of time". He also describes himself as drifting through time and he has no idea what to do, he is already composing the songs about these visions but he is still very confused and does not understand what's going on with him. He is really going through it lmao, anyways these tries at writing the songs and his staring of into space which leads him into:

Track number 4: The Banishment

Oh yeah this is exactly what it sounds like, the townsfolk grow fearful of him and his songs and banish him from the village. Poor Ayreon cries out "what have I done?" as the people accuse him of being evil, this leads Ayreon to roam the forest lost and even more confused. Eventually this leads him to find a place at Camelot after gaining some strange determination. What can I say about this song other then "poor Ayreon" and hope for the best for him.

Track number 5: Ye Courtyard Minstrel Boy

A straightforward track leading into the next arc for Ayreon here, it explains that he tries to win the trust of the people there before he tries to complete his mission again. The next track also does not give further insight into Ayreon's character but it does have a link to a different album I did not see anyone talk abot before soooo:

Track number 6: Sail Away To Avalon

Just a cool track about the quest for the holy grail right? This does give us an insight in the type of songs Ayreon would write, you know except for the metal part lol. In story this is to establish Ayreon as the court musician it has no further relevance to the story right? Wellllll this is a line from Sail Away To Avalon: "You'll find the grail within you, Slay the dragon in your dreams" And this is a line from the Knight on the song Another Time, Another Space from the Into The Electric Castle album: "I have found the grail, here within" So what does this mean? Well I do not know, this could be coincidence but Arjen mostly write links like this if they're important. The whole story of that album is that humans from different time periods have been placed together as an experiment about emotions by the Forever. (A whole different rant is needed to explain them) but the time telepathy experiment was an idea by the Forever so that is possibly the link. Anyways after this little detour let us go back on track and go to the next part of our little story with:

Track Number 7: Nature's Dance

First up: emotional damage. So this song is Ayreon sitting in the gardens wishing to see the beautiful nature around him instead of those future visions. He also uses the word television which I always have interpreted as Ayreon knowing things he shouldn't because of his visions of DOOM. Anyways this is the point of no return Ayreon gathers the courage to finally fulfill his mission although he is already aware that this will most likely kill him. So the next 3 songs will be three ways he foresees humanity's demise and all three are very likely to happen, sadly.

Track Number 8: Computer Reigns (Game Over)

Yeah the classic technology will be our downfall spiel, let us go on to:

Track number 9: Waracle

Ayreon foresees a lot of wars and infighting that will never be resolved until the death of the humans on earth, fun.

Track number 10: Listen To The Waves

This one is the most interesting of these three songs as he foresees pollution and climate change being one of the reasons of earth's destruction. One line in particular stands out though: "We befoul the air and burn a hole in the sky." Eh yeah, this was written in 1995 and now we do actually have a hole in the sky and then adds: "Deadly waves from outer space, will cause our race to die." Which would also be true I cannot put to words how eerily correct Arjen was with this prediction. Now we had this it is time for more pain with:

Track number 11: Magic Ride

This is Ayreon at his lowest point, he feels his death is near and so he cries out to the people that gave him these visions to allow him to see anything other than those horrid visions before he dies. This leads to his final arc which I like to call his death arc or "Merlin is a jealous asshole, the arc." He is scared for his life and just wants anything nice to happen in his sadly short life, sadly this is not to be.

Track number 12: Merlin's Will

Merlin is jealous of Ayreon's apparent visions and wish to be the only seer and so he condems Ayreon to die while calling Ayreon's visions fake. This leads to the saddest song of the album and I will cry because I love this character a lot.

Track number 13: Charm Of The Seer

Ayreon accepts his fate after his frankly difficult life and because I do love the lyrics bound to Ayreon here is the opening of the song: "I've been lost in the valley of nightmares I've been found in the garden of dreams Speak thy charm, I know you are out there Cast thy spell and silence their screams

As I poise on the edge of life where time disappears I bow in fear, To the charm of the seer" All he wants is peace and for those visions to stop and if his death will silence them, then he will accept it with fear.

Track number 14: Swan Song

While this song doesn't have any lyrics we do know what happens in this, Ayreon finally understands where his visions came from and as he sees his future reincarnations he makes one last effort to reason with Merlin to let him live.

Track number 15: Ayreon's Fate (and the last song of the album)

Ayreon's cries fall on deaf ears and he is killed by Merlin but just as he does Merlin recieves visions of the future revealing the truth of Ayreon's words. With an anguished cry of Ayreon's name he promises that his words will be heard and that his story will be told in the late 20th century. Did you remember the year of the album's release? That is right! 1995 which means Arjen writing about Ayreon is canon in the Ayreon universe and we actually meat this fictional version of Arjen in a later album, he is actually really important to the story.

Well this is the end then right? Ayreon died but his words were still shared, humanity can change and prevent the end! Well no Earth still dies in 2084 but what do I talk about then? Well.... Ayreon does appear one more time and not as just a mention. The Universal Migrator is about the last human alive, some humans migrated to Mars but oxygen slowly ran out killing everyone except for our protagonist: The Colonist. He decides to enter the Dream Sequencer (a machine allowing you to experience yout past lives) as oxygen runs out so he dies seeing the earth he longed to visit and so he does what Ayreon wanted but never got. Interesting right? Well both the Colonist and Ayreon share a face that of our mastermind Arjen and so we have.

Caried By The Wind

So our friendly minstrel has died and he actually sounds happier in this song, wow! He floats about as a spirit free and more optimistic than ever! He describes roaming free carrying his message around and in the Universal Migrator comic we can actually see him inspire Arjen to write The Final Experiment. He is distraught as he finds out he failed but optimistically seeks out other worlds to live in. I love this version of Ayreon it is still our minstrel with the fancy words but without the pain the visions has caused he is free to just be.

That is all then right? Ah right the fictional version of Arjen, Mr L present on the song The Truth Is In Here from the 01011001 album which details some strange dreams he got including those of our minstrel friend. Again describing his vision as "black as night" just less poetic, anyways his efforts to sing about Ayreon's visions landed him in a mental hospital. Typical. However it seems the Forever have something to do with Mr L's dreams though we know he is another reincarnation of Ayreon.

In short I love the character of Ayreon for how tragic he is and his boundless optimism after his death. His story is intriguing even if it is a little sad and I love how poetic and over the top his dialog is.

This was my rant about my favourite character ever, I do hope people enjoy it.

#ayreon #wolf speaks #the final experiment #01011001 #the universal migrator #ayreon (the character)

[avantasia-protag-au]

FUN POLL TIME 2

#ROUND 2 BABEY #ayreon #arjen lucassen #arjen anthony lucassen #poll #the final experiment #into the electric castle #universal migrator #the human equation #01011001 #the theory of everything #the source #transitus #actual fantasy

[issela-santina]

the surviving post-human fish aliens were gathered in a room and watching a massive emotional roller coaster of a piece of media (possibly a movie or a telenovela) they salvaged from their home planet and because their spaceship is so eroded that the electronics are dying everywhere, the screen went black just a few minutes short of the ending

#ayreon #the human equation #01011001 #the source

[sea-of-machines]

me discovering that he sings most of the parts that I thought were sung by ladies

#ayreon #01011001 #comic #shitpost #hansi kürsch

[santmat]

One of the greatest rock operas of all time, the album 01011001 by Ayreon.

"01011001 is the seventh studio album by Arjen Anthony Lucassen's long-running Ayreon project. "01011001" is the binary representation of the ASCII value of the letter Y.

"01011001 is a concept album that tells the story of aliens called the "Forever", who create humanity, only to later endanger it by providing it with technology.

"Seventeen singers in total, including Lucassen himself, contributed to the album, more than any other Ayreon album. Apart from Lucassen, only Anneke van Giersbergen (ex-The Gathering) and Floor Jansen (After Forever, Nightwish) had sung on previous Ayreon albums, on Into the Electric Castle and Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer respectively." (Wiki entry for Ayreon)

No. Title Vocalists Length

"Age of Shadows" I. "Age of Shadows" II. "We are Forever" III. "Age of Shadows (reprise)" Tom Englund, Steve Lee, Daniel Gildenlöw, Hansi Kürsch, Floor Jansen, Jonas P. Renkse, Anneke van Giersbergen, Jørn Lande 10:47

"Comatose" van Giersbergen, Lande 4:26

"Liquid Eternity" Renkse, Gildenlöw, Magali Luyten, Bob Catley, Englund, Lande, Jansen 8:10

"Connect the Dots" Ty Tabor, Arjen Anthony Lucassen 4:13

"Beneath the Waves" I. "Beneath the Waves" II. "Face the Facts" III. "But a Memory…" IV. "World Without Walls" V. "Reality Bleeds" Gildenlöw, Catley, van Giersbergen, Jansen, Lee, Lande, Kürsch, Englund 8:26

"Newborn Race" I. "The Incentive" II. "The Vision" III. "The Procedure" IV. "Another Life" V. "Newborn Race" VI. "The Conclusion" Gildenlöw, Jansen, Englund, Renkse, Catley, Kürsch, Lande 7:49

"Ride the Comet" Lande, Jansen, Englund, Renkse, Catley, Luyten 3:29

"Web of Lies" Simone Simons, Phideaux Xavier 2:50 Total length: 50:13 CD 2 – "Earth" No. Title Vocalists Length

"The Fifth Extinction" I. "Glimmer of Hope" II. "World of Tomorrow Dreams" III. "Collision Course" IV. "From the Ashes" V. "Glimmer of Hope (reprise)" van Giersbergen, Catley, Lee, Lande, Englund, Gildenlöw, Kürsch, Renkse, Jansen 10:29

"Waking Dreams" Renkse, van Giersbergen 6:31

"The Truth Is in Here" Lucassen, Liselotte Hegt 5:12

"Unnatural Selection" Englund, Lee, Lande, Catley, Kürsch, Renkse 7:15

"River of Time" Kürsch, Catley 4:24

"E=mc2" Wudstik, Marjan Welman 5:50

"The Sixth Extinction" I. "Echoes on the Wind" II. "Radioactive Grave" III. "2085" IV. "To the Planet of Red" V. "Spirit on the Wind" VI. "Complete the Circle" Englund, Lee, Kürsch, Gildenlöw, Jansen, Renkse, Catley, Lande, van Giersbergen 12:18

(Wiki entry for Ayreon)

#01011001 #Ayreon #prog rock #progressive rock #prog metal #progressive metal #rock operas #Youtube