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Slow Sleep
03:34
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The soundtrack for nights in the open. Substrate for whatever landscape emerges from nothingness that's precedes. Dreams are optional, with any narrative you choose, or other's choose for you, or ones even forced upon you. Don't mind the Slow in the title, it is allowed to be frantic or even still as can be.
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Sakarun 06 2012 pt1
03:12
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And the sort of noise that psychotropic medication can sometimes give you. Still, you choose the narrative, or, er, someone else or, well, you know the rest.
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Refractions
02:42
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[Disclaimer: I’m by no means a physics, astronomy, or cosmology expert, only an enthused layperson unable to grasp the mathematics of Cosmos, but nonetheless trying to create my own, very crude models of cosmic reality, ever since my early childhood. Based on my intuition and imaginative capabilities, while reading many pop-science books about everything.
By this time and age, the physics have been surpassing the realm of intuition for over a century, increasingly leaning on mathematical and very abstract spatial modelling of the cosmology and subatomic structures which are beyond my education as a Historian of Art, and, quite frankly, intelligence as a humanities master’s degree holder.
So, the concepts I describe here are partly learned as axioms not to be questioned and partly by intuitively, and even counterintuitively, questioning even the fundamentals, universally agreed upon, tested and proved beyond doubt. I don’t doubt basics of quantum mechanics because they make sense to me even without the expert knowledge of the formulas behind it, and because I use this Machine I type on, enabled by the advances in electromagnetic manipulation. Able to create the music and which I could lose instantly, if not connected to a electric grid. Virtual, artificial, non-performative, is it even reliably real?
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Light is a wondrous thing. It is a phenomenon which has the limiting effect on the speed of transfer of information in arbitrarily defined space. My girlfriend has a knack for finding the most beautiful textures almost anywhere. I look at a photo she took while we were on the beach and wonder – is it a photo of the light and reflections off of the shimmering water surface enmeshed with refractions of the shallow seabed, or some yet unpublished, hi-definition photo, sent by Webb Space Telescope from the not so distant future, of some focal point in the Cosmos, after the calibration of its enormous gold-coated beryllium mirrors is finally finished.
At 5.6 times larger than old Hubble's mirror, and with various technological improvements, it has the ability to observe objects approximately 100 times fainter than our dear Hubble, and so able to see further back in time and, hence, the further back in past of the Universe. When it reached the Sun-Earth L2 Lagrange point, it finished assembly of its 18 hexagonal parts and is, as of today (February 12th, 2022), still to cool down to its final operational temperature. For this exact same reason, the beryllium was chosen as a very light but stable metal – under the cold conditions of deep space (which is meant here by its loosest definition as any point in space beyond earth’s gravity well). The gold coating gives it durability and more importantly, increases its infrared sensitivity over its thirty years old predecessor.
That mid-infrared band of electromagnetic spectrum is needed to see the distant foci which tend to shift to infrared light more and more, corresponding to the increasing distance to the point of observation ([PO] – in further text). This shift increases until they pass something called cosmic horizon ([CHor] in further text). That horizon is like the inverse of the black hole horizon – the limit of the observable universe, only on macroscopic scale, since everything beyond has moved too far for its electromagnetic radiation to ever each us, overcome by the only phenomenon faster than light – the expanding of space itself.
In other words, everything that has passed beyond Our ([CHor], a sphere centred on us as the [PO], has passed beyond the lowest part of the electromagnetic radiation spectrum to ever be visible to us, the causality lost between these two points in space-time – they’ve moved out of each other’s past cone.
I still have questions about this; for example: what is with the halfway point between our [PO] and [CHor] since it is still causally connected with both points, does it connect causally still, at least theoretically, the two extreme points, a sort of inferred causality? If we were able to create a quantum entanglement communication machine that is connected to halfway point between Our [PO] and the point somewhere beyond Our [CHor] wouldn't we still be able to know what is happening beyond our [CHor]?
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The myriad of photons are collected in the telescopes mirror mesh. The point of origin in time-space, depending on the scope of the observation area and time that passed while the mirrors concentrated photons from that direction, could be of any scale – a set of a million stars inside our own galaxy, or a macroscopic structure, a super cluster of galaxies, and even beyond the limitations implicated by the concept of cosmic horizon – if we can allow ourselves some imagination, a representation of the filaments of matter webbed throughout the omnipresent void of Universe.
The cover photo of the album 2009 is edited into the cover of this track, to vividly represent my thoughts when looking at the original photo (the seabed album cover), with wonder of a child looking for the first time at Carl Sagan’s illustrated mysteries of "Cosmos".
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Synaesthesia
04:28
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A phenomenon usually caused by psychotropic substances of the hallucinogen and psychedelic spectrum, and sometimes by neuro-atypical anomalies in the brains of the happy few. It confuses the signalling of various senses within the synaptic system, so that people can taste colour or see scents, and even touch phantom phenomena.
Isn't it really weird that we mostly have to take strong hallucinogens to feel such wondrous things, or be struck by neuronal damage, or atypical brain structures.
It should be natural and felt at one's willing. It really should.
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Dreamscape
01:24
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Mind's landscape or scenography where dreams take place. Could be large as cosmos as there circulates, probably unverifiable, information on the world wide net that there are possible synaptic connections or permutations of them as there are particles in the Universe
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Prayer
03:23
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The early signs of atonal, aleatorical, not-giving-a-fuck path. A Prayer of sort.
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23.41
04:36
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It's nineteen to midnight!
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Sakarun 06 2012 pt2
04:00
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Lying on a desolate beach, evening sky above turning slowly into a Milky Way, very visible in the lack of light pollution. Listening to "Merriweather Post Pavilion", melting in the warmth of life's rare moment of peace. If only I could live like this...
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N-03
05:38
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[and here] [and here]
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Consenescence
05:50
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Wave Function Collapse
03:59
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Wave Function Collapse is phenomenon that describes why it feels like particles behave sometimes like points of energy, then mischievously decide to tease as behaving like waves, doing it cleverly so that it feels like they know when to behave which way. Particle-Wave duality creates the fuzziness that drives my creative juices to overwhelm my imagination with unstoppable desire to create. Kunstwolle it was named, in the early 20th century, by Alois Riegl, Kunsthistorischer, just like me. Unlike me, he made some useful contributions to the field of study.
I was never attached to anything else but creating visual, verbose, soundscape Chaos-mos. Thank you Meshuggah!
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23trees Zagreb, Croatia
I’m a soundscapist. These tracks are little cuts of my inner states. I create them on my fairly good headphones (AKG fyi),
so I recommend listening on ones of your preference. These pieces should fuel your own inner narratives, they're not
performative. Liquid and morphing often, tracks can even disappear into oblivion. Albums solidify over time. Have access to all the mischief if you buy in.
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