Description
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The Antecedent Patchwork of calamities presumably includes climate change, crop failure, exodus, unmentionable rhetoric, nuclear bomb. Little resistance, if any, would be put up to the gentle spiral, the catastrophe always someone else’s, somewhere else, inevitable, familiar, boring.
The promise of rescue through technological advance turned out to be something of a damp squid.
Residual society retreats to hollow metropoles and suburbs witch, though varied, are generally lifeless, individualistic, convenient, synthetic, semi-stable. Ordinary humans depend on flimsy regional governments, bogus corporate subscriptions, local hoarders of resources (landlords), etc.
Infrastructures was gradually ruined in the collapse, obviously. The Internet seems to be off. essential materials are unavailable, skills forgotten. Officially (apocryphally) the world « rebuilds ».
Paintings, books, musical instruments, etc. are generally hoarded, burnt for energy or otherwise lost. A steady diet of rubbish tech-food, amoral hyper-tainment and sedative mod-cons is available; conventional wosdom states that fresh food is a thing of the past, factory-animal pulp aside.
Despite all this, the birds, ungovernable, continue to sing.
Much of the rest of the surface of the plane has returned to the default state of things, and the particulars of the wilderness zone are by this point basically unkonown. »
TRACK LISTING:
1. ouverture; prologue
2. fawn
3. geodesic dome i
4. oboe fantasy
5. good idea *
6. pond scene
7. pond dream
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8. many-oboe fantasy
9. geodesic dome ii
10. group dynamic *
11. personal computer
12, 13, 14. probable future i, ii, iii *
15. waltz; reprise
CREDITS:
original music by naran ratan
performed on the casio cz-1 synthesizer
libretto (unfinished) by brian bird; synopsis attached
album art also from the archive of brian
ornithological foley by the water feature group (TST046)
mixed and mastered by rory mccarthy
* to the following source material,
exclusively available from morsels,
naran is gratefully indebted:
good idea – parish council, ‘socks before trousers’ (TST028)
group dynamic – water feature, ‘richard iii (duke of gloucester)’ (TST030)
probable future – h hunt, ‘nice arp’ (TST016)
