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First of all, I chose the music video of the song Zero Gravity by Finnish metal band Wolfheart to illustrate the notion of Spaces and Exchanges.

Let's take a look at the lyrics:

Profound is the grief
Fathomless and downhearted is the silence
Overwhelms like a flood
Drowns into the deep dark waters

 

The ocean floor
Somber and bleary surrounding
Beneath the ice
Frozen surface has begun
To block the light of the sun

 

The absence of light
Breeds and altered reality
Faithful and familiar

 

Desolation, despair
Like a dead space inside of me
Creates a zero gravity
Existence
Without intention

 

Footprints on the snow
Covered by the frozen rain from the north
A trace leading into the dark
A grand isolation

 

Cold is the air to inhale
Cold is the heart impaired
Glacial blood runs in your veins
Pitch-black and frosty ichor

 

The absence of light
Breeds and altered reality
Faithful and familiar

 

Desolation, despair
Like a dead space inside of me
Creates a zero gravity
Existence
Without intention

 Something that emphasizes the style of Wolfheart is its lyrics about nature. It must be noted that this band is from Finland. Scandinavian bands are known to have a personal connection with the nature they are surrounded by. This is the reason why I found really interesting how Tuomas Saukkonen (the singer and rhythm guitarist) has used the lexical field of nordic nature to express his confusion on Existence. 

He begins comparing a flood to overwhelming silence, which Drowns into the deep dark waters. We then travel deeper Beneath the ice, where the light of the sun is no more. After some lines, it is noticeable how the ambience of the song gets colder through time. 

Footprints on the snow
Covered by the frozen rain from the north
A trace leading into the dark
A grand isolation

Cold is the air to inhale
Cold is the heart impaired
Glacial blood runs in your veins
Pitch-black and frosty ichor

We can relate these lyrics to the notion of Spaces first, because of the use of nordic nature to create metaphors. Furthermore, the feeling transmitted through this song, is the loneliness of being alive in this planet in the middle of of a deep dark universe. Existence Without intention. This way, Saukkonen shows an exchange between the lonely man and his surroundings. The narrator is aware of his condition as a human and his existencial worries are augmented by the power of nature. 

What's more, the music video adds the song's relation with the notion of Spaces, being filmed in some mesmerizing natural locations in Norway.