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Terra incognita by Tuonela

“You can’t know where you’re going if you don’t know where you’ve been.” ― William Gibson

Track list and start times:

00:00 El Wud – The cloud and the snail (naviarhaiku632)

08:42 Austin Williamson + Blanket Swimming – Temporary Utopias

16:10 John Duncan – Tempered

23:07 ambiMatter – Liminal Spaces - Plane

29:53 numbers in the dream – Shine The Lamp From The Cliff Edge

40:20 KMRU – They Are Here

47:09 Gianantonio Patella – glowingly opaque - naviarhaiku632

50:55 Mira Calix – The Wolf, The Sheep & The Door

56:54 Stephen O'Malley – Phase I Organ (excerpt)

1:06:33 encym – impact oscuro_disquiet0737

1:13:17 Blue Arkangel – Wasteland

1:19:31 Loscil – City Hospital (excerpt)

1:31:00 Sicker Man – Mean Drift

1:34:52 ray_cobley – Spring Day with Sparrows (naviarhaiku631)

1:40:34 Tuuligan – Cerulean

1:44:59 Okkyung Lee – One Hundred Years Old Rain (The Same River Twice)

1:50:49 Austin Williamson + Blanket Swimming – Horizons (excerpt)

1:58:38 synkrotron – Dark Clouds (excerpt)

2:08:05 Aultone – Terra incognita

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Image: Lexica.art

"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions." - William Gibson

Back in the dark ages, my early copy of Audacity was set up - accidentally, incorrectly but fortuitously - so that audio recorded on it would go into a reverberation feedback loop, controlled by the volume input.

I used it during the recording of an interview with William Basinski (whose monumental Disintegration Loops are about to be re-released) in 2013. This piece, recorded in full but unreleased, begins with some of the resulting track, then uses extracts, stretches and cut-ups made from it. The sound sources are Basinki's voice and some short passages of his work.

“Here's the truth: people, even regular people, are never just any one person with one set of attributes. It's not that simple. We're all at the mercy of the limbic system, clouds of electricity drifting through the brain.” ― Jonathan Nolan

Track list and start times:

00:00 Sion Trefor – The Cabin in the Woods | How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

02:16 Insectarium – The child’s laugh

08:05 Dominique Lawalree – La Maison Des 5 Éléments

17:15 alice freshmouth – cut - out 06

25:10 KMRU – They Are Here

32:09 ray_cobley – One Leaf after Another (naviarhaiku630)

36:11 Shifting Path – Unsaid, Unchanged

40:48 Talst – Thread

48:07 Thomas Park – Radioactive_Cab_Ride_06

51:38 Yuki Aizawa – Dazzling Light

56:55 SHIFALA – we never made it

1:00:45 bruno Bernard – cuisine ouverte

1:06:15 Sion Trefor – The Doll You Don't Want | How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

1:09:37 Loo(p)cy – The Distance Becoming Light

1:13:28 Emily Wittbrodt – Porous

1:15:50 Carlos Giffoni – Whirlwind (featuring Iggor Cavalera)

1:22:25 Sebby Kowal – Sonar

1:28:12 Ocean in a Bottle – Soundtrack for Global Warming on Earth Over 1,000 Years (excerpt)

1:33:00 Termotank – Piedras

1:36:33 zenbytes – one leaf falls - Naviarhaiku630

1:40:07 thomas fleischhauer – habitat (excerpt)

1:44:57 ホテル shampoo – airport Buddha

1:48:40 thomas fleischhauer – asian dream

1:53:36 Aultone – Limited exposure 02

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“No sound, once made, is ever truly lost. In electric clouds, all are safely trapped, and with a touch, if we find them, we can recapture those echoes of sad, forgotten wars, long summers, and sweet autumns.” ― Ray Bradbury

Bells fried in acid by Tuonela

Lumoscapist by Tuonela

“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.” ― Carl Sagan

Track list and start times:

00:00 Maya Shenfeld – Netherworld (from ‘Cover-Up’)

03:27 Genesis Jane – Sailboat

08:05 A Thousand Reasons – Evolutionary

13:21 Jack Sazonov – Asynchronous Groove Theory

16:25 ianos by Dalot & Sound Awakener – Tone in A Minor

22:47 Brad Rose – In Collapse (excerpt)

32:27 mora-tau – decsent to the second planet in the altair system

41:37 Perlonex – Present (excerpt)

47:50 seki takashi – it's been a long time

55:55 rikardfvs – falls first-naviarhaiku629

1:00:10 Rafael Anton Irisarri – Signals from a Distant Afterglow

1:07:40 Maya Shenfeld – Cataphora

1:14:31 Szymon Wójcik – it’s only begun

1:21:17 Stan Magendanz – Having third thoughts about everything_02

1:25:21 von jeglichem wort – ich erinnere mich nicht dass die machthaber mit ihren glaenzenden stiefeln sich um uns kuemmerten (excerpt)

1:31:05 Solis Noctis – Unter_m Eis (excerpt)

1:47:09 PLumP00H – EXcursion14

1:51:02 Yzymyr – New Eon 05

1:57:21 zakè – Cantus for Winter, Part One

2:04:15 Sleep of Ages – Ear Found While Strolling Through The Woods

2:07:45 Cousin Silas & Maximum Movement Theatre – Timeships

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Image: Lexica.art

“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me.

The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are!

We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas.

The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

Plastic… asshole.”

― George Carlin

Limited exposure 04 by Tuonela