Miskatonic, some guy called Adam McLean (6:54) and others:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WFFaTcsexQ

Short but nicely illustrated article with good links:

https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/ouroboros-meaning

"Written in 2021 and ‘woven from threads leading out of the alchemical world of Elizabethan London’, each of Adès’ four movements takes a simple idea and transmutes it into something rich and strange."


https://www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...gJk-_D_BwE

https://bachtrack.com/fr_FR/concert-even...025/405455

"Alchemy is full of secrets. Nevertheless, over the past generation scholars have been revealing more and more of its surprising content and importance. No longer is it dismissed as a waste of time or a fool’s quest. Alchemy is now increasingly recognized as a fundamental part of the heritage of chemistry, of continuing human attempts to explore, control, and make use of the natural world."

https://www.sciencehistory.org/stories/m...f-alchemy/

"This article explores the origins and evolution of alchemy, particularly focusing on the terminologies "chemeia" and "chumeia," which reference alchemical practices in Greek and are connected to traditional practices in China and India. The author, S. Mahdihassan, posits that alchemy was initially centered around the search for longevity and life-enhancing remedies using various substances, notably those with red coloration that symbolized life and vitality. The discussion unfolds through a historical narrative that traces back how early humans sought longevity through natural drugs derived from plants and minerals."

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3331503/

"Best-selling author Pedram Shojai, "The Urban Monk", presents a comprehensive guide on how Taoist alchemical practices can help you release stress, harness life force energy, and awaken your true self."

https://www.learnoutloud.com/Audio-Books...emy/121218

Présentation de l'Oeuvre de Nicolas Almand, la voie dite "du vide" lors du Colloque d'Alchimie à Lyon avec hommage à Patrick Rivière organisé par les Editions Alkemia.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFtwp1uf31M

http://www.nathor.fr/

ChatGPT prototype.

https://www.zerohedge.com/technology/cha...-prototype

"The overall form of Transit is dictated by the texts and their order of presentation. Whilst each of them retains a large amount of internal self-sufficiency (each representing one type of transformation) taken together they collectively represent an open-ended progression from material transformation (represented by texts concerning transmutation by Paracelsus) via cosmological (Heraclitus on the perpetual dissolution and reconstitution of the universe through fire) to universal/mystical transformation (the teachings on the nature of eternity contained in the Corpus Hermeticum attributed to Hermes Trismegistus)." - Ferneyhough, source unknown.

"Transit was composed between 1972 and 1975 and reflects in its lengthy period of gestation the slow development and musical realisation of an idea which I had carried round with me for several years - that of trying to redefine common ground linking the arts with other fields in a manner rising above the tastefully descriptive..... The starting point for my work on this composition was an anonymous woodcut depicting a renaissance magus in the act of penetrating the last sphere separating the mortal from the divine, the contingent from the absolute." - Ferneyhough.
(Woodcut shown below).

Available here along with his other works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGFHH2YW...Y&index=19

   

Contemporary Neoclassical Music by Anna Bondareva - Allure, Pt.4: I. Alchemical Dream, II. Nigredo, III. Astra Mortem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84fXK7kY-2M

https://annabondareva.com/