The Boy Who Invented the Saw A Dark Greek Myth of Envy

In the shadows of the Acropolis, envy once turned an architect into a monster. This is the tragic chronicle of Perdix—the boy who invented the saw by watching the spine of a fish—and his uncle Daedalus, whose jealousy forged a crime that history tried to bury.

Behind the Artifact:
The myth of Perdix is often overshadowed by the wings of Icarus, but the true tragedy lies in the "Neighbor's Goat"—the silent, cancerous envy that destroys the innovator. In composing this, I wanted the music to sound like the grinding of metal against wood, transitioning from the rhythmic precision of an inventor’s mind to the hollow, suffocating silence of a murderer’s workshop.