Cosmosis

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Cosmosis is an electronic music project, specifically goa trance. Personnel originally consisted of Bill Halsey and Jez Van Kampen for the first album: "Cosmology" widely regarded as a classic in the Goa Trance genre. Subsequent albums from and including "Synergy" lean towards the less melodic but more complex Psy-Trance sound and were produced by Bill Halsey only. (aka Bilbo Bagginz)

[edit] Discography

Cosmology (Transient Records 1996)
Synergy (Transient Records 1998)
Intergalactic (Transient Records 2000)
Contact (Transient Records 2002)
Trancendance (Holophonic Records 2005)

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Cosmosis (pl. cosmoses) can also be considered a figure of speech used in poetic works. Derived from the Greek κοσμεω, meaning "to put in order", it describes a relationship in grammatically inflected languages such as Latin or Greek in which two or more words appear successively in order by case, gender, or person. This is usually associated with a descending order of criteria, rather than ascending.

The following line from Virgil's Aeneid is a prime example of cosmosis, wherein the underlined words descend in case from nominative to ablative:

 Ipse deum tibi mē clārō dēmittit Olympō    (4.268)

An expansion of this definition includes scenarios where some elements in the order are skipped; as the order is nevertheless retained, this figure of speech still applies. Generally, the cosmotic association between two words alone appears too weak and thus is not accepted as a legitimate instance of cosmosis, especially if the words skip as in the previous definition, or if they are separated in or beyond the given line.