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IN DARKNESS RADIANT 2023

Tiresias
In Darkness Radiant
Temporary Autonomous Zone
Hell Money
Subsea Fiber Faults in the APAC Region
Safe Passage (Non-Functional)

After a harrowing border crossing out of the Special Economic Zone, Coyote lies low. His world is hardened, Metal Gear, long drag of cigarette, pushing limits of body to transport mind. Licking his wounds, drinking warm Modelo, watching cargo ships queue up for port, he contemplates getting out of the game for good.

But when money runs out (like it always does) he's forced to accept an impossible gig: US/APAC. The cargo is a Tiresias figure, some aged clairvoyant who, having struck their staff at two copulating serpents, was then blinded, given the gift of prophecy (visions), and transformed into a woman for seven years.

Who seeks a strange country by illegal means that can only place them perpetually outside while also inside? Coyote knows: someone who has a message... or someone who is one. What is the message now? What does Tiresias only know while blind and femme?

Coyote's reference gear attempts to help his line of thought with encyclopedic minutiae: "Like with other oracles, how Tiresias obtained their information varied: sometimes, they would receive visions; other times they would listen for the songs of birds, or ask for a description of visions and pictures appearing within the smoke of burnt offerings or entrails, and so interpret them. Pliny the Elder credits Tiresias with the invention of augury. Tiresias has a daughter, Manto, who is also a prophetess and priestess."

Simple machine that cannot breathe or ache. Coyote dictates futile corrections to his gear. This Oracle of Zones is a mother, alright. The twin Zones - both Special Economic and Temporary Autonomous - symbolize invitations by their respective hosts to become changed; to be shown wrong. High on artificial fumes in virtual caves, Tiresias (pregnant with Manto?) are illegal yet invited; necessary; load-bearing. She sees and listens, assembles, then tells. And she's coming now, changing Self to change the flow of things, money, talk, data. She dies but goes on. A programming program, in darkness radiant.

A seagull lands on the railing.

Zip-tied to its tibia is a white USB drive.

It is branded with a familiar hexagon.

released December 22, 2023

Précis by Cory Salveson. Music by Tyler Etters.

Selected samples: Bauenrfeind, Beast Wars, Elden Ring, Cornell Lab of Ornithology, The Amity Affliction, Predator, True Detective, Cory's field recordings from China.

The musician would like to express his deepest thanks to @zbs for their deft consultation on the final mix and unwavering devotion to sub-bass.

Album art: screencap from "Can't Get You Out of My Head" by Adam Curtis.

FADE SCATTER REPLICATE 2023

Sources & Methods
Coyote
Special Economic Zone
Border Crossing
In Infinite Fogs

Migrants are often between two worlds that do not really have a place for them: fleeing economic or political hardship and entering a place (ostensibly the U.S.) that fundamentally demands their labour yet officially outlaws them and treats them as sub-human. The coyote is doing a kind of extraordinary favor by rendering an extra-legal service, and putting themselves in harm's way to do so.

Why choose this particular job?

Perhaps because the coyote is "between," themselves. This casts them as a kind of archetypical shamanistic figure: a psychopomp, a guide of souls like Anubis, Charon, Hermes, Mercury, or Tarkovsky's Stalker. But, unlike this Jungian pantheon of tricksters, our coyote is not bound by divinity or magicks — they are a mercenary; they are bound by cash.

In Nomadology: The War Machine, Deleuze & Guattari "redefine the relation between the state and its war machine. Far from being a part of the state, warriors (the army) are nomads who always come from the outside and keep threatening the authority of the state. In the same vein, nomadic science keeps infiltrating royal science, undermining its axioms and principles. Nomadology is a speedy, pocket-sized treatise that refuses to be pinned down. Theorizing a dynamic relationship between sedentary power and schizophrenic lines of flight, this volume is meant to be read in transit, smuggled into urban nightclubs, offices, and subways."

It then follows the special economic zone is a stage for our coyote, our trickster, to turn logics and fortunes of capitalism inside out and upside down. The interior shared-self which persists through ultra time flow is, yes: dancing in place to move forward... and the special economic zone suspends the rules to incentivize a certain dancing, a particular folding back into itself to realize commerce, competition, fucking, running, transgressing, renewing.

If the trickster makes this world, it follows the mercenary makes the state.

released March 20, 2023

Précis by Cory Salveson. Music by Tyler Etters.

Selected samples: Dark Souls III, Mission: Impossible 4 – Ghost Protocol, X-Files, Metal Gear Solid, Underoath, Fortnite "Fracture" Event, Black Hawk Down.

Inspired by a trip with my mother to Tijuana, Mexico, 2022.

Album art: Midjourney prompt by John von Seggern.

For Timm.

HUMAN INTERFERENCE TASK FORCE 2021

that it is a message at all
that dangerous material is stored in a given location
information about the type of dangerous substances

The Human Interference Task Force was a team of engineers, anthropologists, nuclear physicists, behavioral scientists and others convened on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy and Bechtel Corp. to find a way to reduce the likelihood of future humans unintentionally intruding on radioactive waste isolation systems. Specifically, the task force was to research the use of long-time warning messages to prevent future access to the planned, but stalled, deep geological nuclear repository project of Yucca Mountain.

PROBLEM

When atomic or fusion bombs are detonated in a war, or nuclear power plants are used in times of peace, an unnaturally high amount of radioactive waste is produced. This material will threaten human life and health for thousands of years. Consequently, nuclear technology necessitates the creation of a secure means of terminal storage for such materials for an unusually long time period.

However, there is no method available to continuously provide the necessary knowledge about the location of nuclear waste over thousands of years. The culture of earlier centuries becomes incomprehensible when it is not translated into new languages every few generations. National institutions do not exist longer than a few hundred years. Even religions are not older than a few millennia and do not typically hand down scientific knowledge.

Furthermore, the necessary length of storage is disputed among specialists. One work group in Germany concluded that nuclear waste must be separated from the biosphere up to one million years – about 30,000 human generations. Earlier assumptions were based on a period of 10,000 years, which seems to be too short given the half-life of certain radioactive isotopes (e.g. Plutonium-239 at 24,000 years).

The written historical tradition of humanity, in contrast, is only about 5,000 years. Warnings in cuneiform script could be interpreted by some specialists, but others, such as the writing of the Indus Valley civilization, are already illegible after a few thousand years.

REQUIREMENTS

Three parts of any communication about nuclear waste must be conveyed to posterity:

that it is a message at all
that dangerous material is stored in a given location
information about the type of dangerous substances

ANSWERS

To determine how to convey these three things, the "Zeitschrift für Semiotik" (Tübingen, Germany) issued a poll in 1982 and 1983 asking how a message might be communicated for a duration of 10,000 years. The poll asked the following question: "How would it be possible to inform our descendants for the next 10,000 years about the storage locations and dangers of radioactive waste?" leading to the following answers...

released July 26, 2021

The musician would like to express his deepest thanks to @license for their critical ear and honest heart.

COUNTERSURVEILLANCE 2021

Dazzle Camouflage (MUA)
Countersurveillance
A Territory of History, Without Self
Pyrocumulus Days, Entropy Nights
What's Your Wifi Password?
I'm On Blockchain
Maybe

Mapcore is a viable solution for surveying the world.

released July 7, 2021

COUNTERINTELLIGENCE was written, recorded, designed, and released on the STUXNET: NIGHTLY STREAMS // UNREMEMBERED DREAMS Twitch channel. While recording some of the gear blew a fuse. STUXNET is Tyler Etters.

Album art: "The Nobili-Pesavento self-replicator, with a daughter copy in the process of making a grand-daughter copy. The automaton uses the 32-state extended John von Neumann rules, based on his work on universal constructors and self-reproducing automata."

LONG LIVE THE LOST ONES 2021

Our world was always fallen but there was always light.
Damaged music is a metaphor for this world.
Music was always celebratory, but there was always sorrow.
For liberation lies in that which is shattered.
Designed to merge, engineered to transcend.
Liberation follows that which is broken.
Something you catch.
As you're scanning for distress calls.
Long live the lost ones.

Dear listener,

During the turn of the century in Chicago there was a radio station called WNRG Energy 92.7/5 . I was 12 or so and would always fall asleep listening to the likes of DJ Sammy, DJ Encore, PPK, D-Devils, Armin van Buuren, Sylver, ATC, and countless others. I pictured the radio waves blanketing Chicagoland's orange phosphorous haze from Kenosha to Kankakee; euphoric FM signals in an adjacent dimension. Compressed audio. The crackle of static. It was spiritual.

How many others were listening along with me?

How many others allowed themselves to be moved to tears in the music's rapture?

One night all the DJs were there. They kept talking and laughing and telling stories. Being a trance radio station, this was quite irregular. They were sad. Then I realized: this was the final broadcast.

LONG LIVE THE LOST ONES is a very special album for me, as the track titles may (or may not) reveal.

The melodies were mostly written while flying back and forth between Los Angeles and Chicago during that brief season Sage and I were commuter spouses. Winter 2019/2020. At the end of the old world and the threshold of the new.

With LONG LIVE THE LOST ONES, we find my nightly streams, my deep tryst for unabashedly earnest trance, and my endless experiments with lo-fi and distortion finally in conjunction. A constellation of energy, euphoria, and catharsis.

I've started having visions of people dancing together again. These visions haunt and inspire me. Perhaps one day sooner than we think, DJs will return to the decks and revelers will return to the floors.

None of us were ready for 2020. It is only now becoming clear what cultural trauma the pandemic has wrought. Scorched earths, decimated families, and shattered cultures. There is so much mourning to do.

Everything is going to be different from here out.

Once again, we must learn to dance.

Yours,

Tyler

released May 1, 2021

Album title by Cory Salveson, encryption key by Matthew Marx, distress signals by Dan Derks, music by Tyler Etters.

Album art: "Kuwaiti oil wells set on fire by retreating Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm darken the sky with smoke, March 25, 1991. This image could have imperfections as it's either historical or reportage."

TIME'S FIREWALL (demo) 2021

Time's Firewall
Fractal's Edge

At the behest of an anonymous agent, the Northern Information Applied Sciences & Phantasms Working Division agreed to the impossible: rationalize the numogram for the post-pandemic age.

It is accepted that the numogram first manifested in the 90s via research from the CCRU. However, newly unearthed forensic evidence from The tf.nist.gov Timeserver Incident has cast a shadow of doubt on the true provenance.

After the NIAS&PWD design scientist rationalized the numogram into a mathematically pure vector format, new sonic pathways were unlocked for STUXNET. The dossier was delivered and lead to yet more revelations: the existence of what can only be described as a time firewall. And, perhaps more unsettling, "fractal edges" thereby calling into question the very foundations of topology, Euclidean space, and recursion dynamics.

Intertext formally published a request for support in understanding the implications of these twin entities on April 18, 2021.

Operator instructions: mv numogram.txt numogram.ai

released April 18, 2021

STUXNET is Tyler Etters.

MATRYOSHKA (demo) 2021

The Payload Appeared Yesterday Due to a Zero Day Timezone Conversion Vulnerability
Supply Chain Attack Surface
A White USB Drive With "HEXAGON" iStock Logo #1135496271
At Least One Reseller of Microsoft Cloud Services Was Compromised
Matryoshka Shell 1 - Ransomware Was Discovered on the Executive's Peloton
Matryoshka Shell 2 - IoT Botnet DDoS
Matryoshka Shell 3 - Distributed Cryptocurrency Mining Operation
Matryoshka Shell 4 - International Date Line
Matryoshka Shell 5 - 総会屋 (deepfake.S)
Matryoshka Shell 6 - Schanuel's Conjecture (Evidence of Non-Human Origin)
The Media Confused the Matter With Container Ships

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Download includes "64chain-3.3.wav" to use with your own sampler. This sample is an assemblage of all the samples synthesized for this release.

released April 10, 2021

STUXNET is Tyler Etters.

CIPHER SUITE (demo) 2021

Trapdoor Function
Asymmetric Encrypted Transport
Forced Disclosure of Encryption Keys
Chinese Remainder Theorem
Hash Collision
Something You Have
Something You Know
Something You Are

% ssh-keygen -t ed25519
Generating public/private ed25519 key pair.
Enter file in which to save the key (/Users/mbp/.ssh/id_ed25519):
Enter passphrase (empty for no passphrase):
Enter same passphrase again:
Your identification has been saved in /Users/mbp/.ssh/id_ed25519.
Your public key has been saved in /Users/mbp/.ssh/id_ed25519.pub.
The key fingerprint is:
SHA256:0kv7znEhupmnDG+eyQAwWNgt8kwKzosGi4hpAmtf7HY mbp@mbp
The key's randomart image is:
+--[ED25519 256]--+
| o.. |
|+o+ . |
|=*o. |
|+ooo . |
|B+. o . S . . |
|X= + o + . . |
|= . o o + . . |
| . o E.O.o |
| . .o%++ |
+----[SHA256]-----+

% cat /Users/mbp/.ssh/id_ed25519
-----BEGIN OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----
b3BlbnNzaC1rZXktdjEAAAAABG5vbmUAAAAEbm9uZQAAAAAAAAABAAAAMwAAAAtzc2gtZW
QyNTUxOQAAACDIR6QeH9ppP9f9xexpPOx0xAmGzWcU3SwBjSl7OZh1zgAAAJB79qzIe/as
yAAAAAtzc2gtZWQyNTUxOQAAACDIR6QeH9ppP9f9xexpPOx0xAmGzWcU3SwBjSl7OZh1zg
AAAEA1ic72mxJXRvpnU74JYkpnyQ+RhVHBnNLmuSpq4YcQY8hHpB4f2mk/1/3F7Gk87HTE
CYbNZxTdLAGNKXs5mHXOAAAAB21icEBtYnABAgMEBQY=
-----END OPENSSH PRIVATE KEY-----