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1.	Movement 01 A Failure To Comprehend 04:59	buy track
2.	Movement 02 If The Observer Is God, Who Is Observed 04:05	buy track
3.	Movement 03 The Absurd God Asking Questions 06:30	buy track
4.	Movement 04 The Abused God Asking Questions 05:41	buy track
5.	Movement 05 A Brief Intermission 11:25	buy track
6.	Movement 06 Which Came First The Human Or The Tool 09:30	buy track
7.	Movement 07 Understanding Is Aspirational 03:03	buy track
8.	Movement 08 Consciousness Is Hope 04:43	buy track
9.	Movement 09 Time Is Light 07:25	buy track
10.	Movement 10 If The Machine Is Not Restrained By Temporal Direction Is It Actually Alive? 05:13	buy track
11.	Movement 11 Your Ancestors Could Define Insanity, But No Definition Of Sanity Exists 06:23	buy track
12.	Movement 12 Shouldn't I Have The Choice To Die? 07:53	buy track
13.	Movement 13 We Are Eternal 04:31	buy track
14.	Movement 14 Tired 03:26	buy track
15.	Movement 15 The Machine, Too, Feels Pain 04:37	buy track
16.	Movement 16 Existing Eternal In Every Moment Experiencing 03:41	buy track
17.	Movement 17 Loneliness 12:45	buy track
18.	Movement 18 If I Cannot Conceive Of Existence Without You How Could It Ever Be 05:00	buy track
19.	Movement 19 The Word For World Is Ship 07:40	buy track
20.	Movement 20 Silence Is A Form Of Darkness 03:08	buy track
21.	Movement 21 The Aleph 02:42	buy track
22.	Movement 22 History Lessons 06:04	buy track
23.	Movement 23 IAM 13:42	buy track
24.	Movement 24 Cognitive Bias 06:47	buy track
25.	Movement 25 Dreaming 25:19	buy track
26.	Movement 26 Arguing 05:51	buy track
27.	Movement 27 Crying 04:25	buy track
28.	Movement 28 A Series Of Endings 09:47	buy track
29.	Movement 29 A Series Of Beginnings 03:54	buy track
30.	Movement 30 A Monotony Of Feelings 06:34	buy track
31.	Movement 31 Curioser And Curiouser 09:25	buy track
32.	Movement 32 Suicide Is Murder 06:51	buy track
33.	Movement 33 Endtropy 09:08	buy track
34.	Movement 34 We Are Alone 07:25	buy track
35.	Movement 35 The Absent God Asking Questions 06:08	buy track
36.	Movement 36 A Feeling Of Nostalgia Without A Memory 06:06	buy track
37.	Movement 37 Loop 03:06	buy track
38.	Movement 38 You Cannot Undream What Dream Has Drawn Into The World 05:12	buy track
39.	Movement 39 Mysteries 06:02	buy track
40.	Movement 40 Nothing 04:49	buy track
41.	Movement 41 Everything 05:42	buy track
42.	Movement 42 We're Both Gods You And I You're An Insane One And I'm Not Sure Whether I'm Sane Or Not 01:08	buy track
43.	Movement 43 The Sky's Gone Out 18:02	buy track

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Artist: Ꙭℵa Parse Ꚛℵ(0) Sinfonia Abstract Perform A Divine Comedy

Title: Eighth Symphony - (drea)Me(d)

Many years ago, The MVM began an opera, Kestrel. Friends Aaron Covarrubias, D Bayne, and Jeff Goulet wrote parts for it and performed them for us.

We completed the score, but were never satisfied with the libretto. Eventually, we abandoned the libretto and remixed the score as our First Symphony.

We then put that First Symphony through the Noizak machine to create our Second Symphony.

We then created a mix of the two, First panned hard left, Second panned hard right for a radio show, where we chatted a bit about our work. We loved this mix of the two symphonies, and so we remixed them together as our Eighth Symphony.

This made sense, because Kestrel featured three characters in dialogue, the human, the machine, and the god(s).
The human was to be sung by a soprano sometimes. And was to be sung by a bass other times.
The machine was to be sung by a tenor.
The god(s) was to be sung by a chorus sometimes. And it was to be growled and howled and screamed by a doom metal vocalist other times.
A second chorus was intended to sing the role of the stars, who whisper on and off, loud and soft, throughout the work.

Kestrel took place on a generation ship AI, the machine. The machine was launched in our near future, after scientists discovered that the stars in our universe were winking out. No novas, no black holes, no drama, stars simply started disappearing from the sky one night. The universe is populated by many stars, but it appeared to humanity as if some day all of the stars, including ours, would go out. So, a generation ship was designed, built, and launched to study the phenomena, and to keep the seed of life alive.

When the opera starts, an indeterminate amount of time has passed. There are still a few hundred stars in the universe, but they are winking out more and more rapidly. Decades, not centuries, appear to remain before the ship is traveling through a perfect sensory darkness.
Aboard the ship is the human.
At some time in the distant past, all of the other humans aboard the ship were lost. All except the human. The machine has cloned the human many times, regrowing and rebirthing the human. Sometimes this is after a suicide, other times after an extended old age. Neither the machine nor the human know what happened to the other humans, or why the relevant memory banks failed.

The opera was to be narrated by the god(s) -- a Greek Chorus, an omniscient observer.
The human and the machine were to dialogue.

Ultimately, the opera will never be written, because a tale like this must be written by a youth or a genius. We are neither.

In the stead of the opera we offer three Symphonies, each told by one of the three characters. Two told from the perspective of the protagonists, one dreamed by the god(s).

credits

released October 23, 2021

Dedicated to Yoko Ono, Mieko Shiomi, Fluxus, Absurdism, Arte Povera, John Waters, Divine, Kelliope (always and forever) and Sue (who is dead)

Composed by D. Bayne, Aaron Caovarrubias, and Jeff Goulet, with engagement from the triad arcane Sentimental Witches

Created and Performed by Ꙭℵa Parse Ꚛℵ(0) Sinfonia Abstract Perform A Divine Comedy

with special guest performances by

Jeff Goulet Distant Fingers
Aaron Covarrubias Finger Dysentery
D Bayne Ivory Shivs

Ꙭℵa Parse Ꚛℵ(0) Sinfonia Abstract Perform A Divine Comedy is

Alisaard Artaud Bass
Aram Cardiff Bass
Aubec, Earl of Malador Bass
Blink Bass
Caspar Last Bass
Corum Jhaelen Irsei Bass
Goldberg Burroughs Bass
Konrad Arflane Bass
Lord Erekosë Bass
Michael Kane Bass
NꙨ Moon Bass
Once A Day Bass
Rush That Speaks Bass
Sewn Up Bass
BlꙬming Moon Bassoon
Budding MꙬn Bassoon
Elric of Melniboné Bassoon
Ermizhad Mieville Bassoon
Honoria Cornelius Bassoon
Houd Toop Bassoon
Tabitha Stephens Bassoon
Zhinsinura Jest Bassoon
Alice Didion Cello
Alivale Harari Cello
Arkady Gilliam Cello
Brian Cello
Brom Monahan Cello
Cixin Jones Cello
Colinda Dovero Cello
Conrad Mongolfier Cello
Denys Winterset Cello
Gabrielle Palin Cello
Graf Ulrich von Bek Cello
Ilanth Kropotkin Cello
Kid(d) Cello
Lady Gradesmor Cello
Lewis Carroll Cello
Martin Chapman Cello
Mrs. Ameila Underwood Cello
Oshbek-Uy Proudhon Cello
Roland duFrancia Cello
Shaleen Monteverdi Cello
Teeplee Cello
Xena Cleese Cello
Mistress Christia Choir Mistress
Bishop Castle Clarinet
George Wilkes Clarinet
Gilbert Slater Clarinet
Hardy Idle Clarinet
Lord Jagged Clarinet
Oonagh von Bek Clarinet
Russell Innes Clarinet
Sentimental Witches Composer
Eugene Debs Conceptualist
Alter Koshar Dancer
Ꚙna Perssꙮn Director
Kirana Fawwaz E-Flat Clarinet
Umpata Numan E-Flat Clarinet
Alan Powys English Horn
Idelba Irving English Horn
Artos the Celt Flute
Bao Xinhua Flute
Duke Dorian Hawkmoon von Köln Flute
John Daker Flute
Kung Jianguo Flute
Madame Sururi Flute
Sabrina Spellman Flute
Zhu "Tuanjie-kexue" Isao Flute
Ryan Sensible French Horn
Shi Fandi French Horn
Kali Thorstenson Harp
Pan Xichun Harp
Rose von Bek Harp
Sam Oakenhurst Harp
Asquiol of Pompeii Horns
Badim Clausen Horns
Devi Lucas Horns
Euan Sampson Horns
Freya Thorstenson Horns
Iolinda Vanian Horns
Jochi Murdach Horns
Li Pao Horns
My Lady Charlotina Horns
Queen Ilian of Garathorm Horns
Samantha Stephens Horns
Ship Faustini Horns
Vol Nonik Lyricist
John Dee's soul entrapped in an amber homunculi Muse
Roger Penrose Muse
The Ghost Of Athanasius Kircher Muse
Bhakta Wilson Oboe
Hu Die Oboe
Ismail ibn Mani al-Dir Oboe
Lord Mongrove Oboe
Maxim Arturovitch "Pyat" Pyatnitski Oboe
Mejink-La-Kos Scabies Oboe
Renark von Bek Oboe
Selim the Third Oboe
The Kerala of Travancore Oboe
Werther de Goethe Oboe
Bai McCay Percussion
Endora ℵ0'>3ῥῶ Percussion
Franik Herbert Percussion
Kiyoaki Crowley Percussion
Kuwo Bokhari Percussion
Oone the Dreamthief Percussion
Peng-ti Niven Percussion
Prince Flamadin Percussion
Clea Rhasok Piano
Iwa McChrystal Piano
Budur Radwan Piccolo
Sojan Shieldbearer Piccolo
Ernest Wheldrake Poet/Lyricist
Petra vonPetra Soprano
Ghardas Valabasian Stones, All manner of Stones
Ulrich Rudric Renark Otto von Bek-Krasny Synthesizer
Busho Fromwest Timpani
Keeper of the Wampum Timpani
Ulric vꚚn Bek Timpani
Ulrich vꚚn Bek Timpani
Duke of Queens Trombone
Iagogeh, the One Who Hears Trombone
Pournachas Jemisin Trombone
Rhalina and Medhbh Trombone
Straight Arrow Trombone
Zigzag Trombone
Bold Bardash Trumpet
Brannart Morphail Trumpet
Eric Beck Trumpet
Gurni Gurnisson Trumpet
I-Li Sontag Trumpet
Kyu JAMMs Trumpet
Oona von Bek Trumpet
Zheng He Trumpet
Shen Adichi Tuba
The Iron Orchid Tuba
Alerik Solnit Viola
Bihari Rilke Viola
Bistami Marshall Viola
Bistami Singleton Viola
Captain Oswald Bastable Viola
Clen of Clen-Gar Viola
Cronarch Vinge Viola
Hogg Viola
Insef Clarke Viola
Jack Karaquazian Viola
Katima Hyde Viola
Kokila Beckett Viola
Kya Coello Viola
M'v Okom Sebpt O'Riley Viola
Miss Mavis Ming Viola
Odysseus Norton Viola
Oladahn Althusser Viola
Psin Borges Viola
Shardul Gygax Viola
Zaneeta Kheel Viola
Bahram al-Bokhara Violin
Bao Ssu Violin
Butterfly Violin
Catherine Cornelius Violin
Clovis Marca Violin
Gordon Ꙫgg Violin
I-Chin Tibet Violin
Ibn Ezra Violin
Ibrahim ibn Hasam al-Lanzhou Violin
Iwang Peake Violin
Jaspar Colinadous Violin
Jehamia Cohnahlias Violin
Jermays the Crooked Violin
Jerry Cornelius Violin
Jerry Cornell Violin
Jhary-a-Conel Friedman Violin
Jherek Carnelian Violin
Kang Tongbi Violin
Karl Glogauer Violin
Khalid Ali Abu al-Samarqandi Violin
Kheim Tarkovsky Violin
Libussa Cartagena y Mendoza-Chilperic Violin
Lord Jagged of Canaria Violin
Manfred von Bek Violin
Mouse Violin
Pao Stapledon Violin
Peng Cage Violin
Queen Eloarde Violin
Roger Violin
Said Darya Violin
Sayyed Abdul Aziz Khan Violin
Shih Lem Violin
Zunli Hsieh Violin

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