"'I'm not Wintermute now.'

'So what are you." He drank from the flask, feeling nothing.

'I'm the matrix, Case'

Case laughed.  'Where's that get you?'

'Nowhere.  Everywhere.  I'm the sum total of the works, the whole show.'

'That what 3Jane's mother wanted?'

'No.  She couldn't imagine what I'd be like.'  The yellow smile widened.

'So what's the score?   How are things different?   You running the world now?   You God?'

'Things aren't different.  Things are things.'

'But what do you do?  You just there?' Case shrugged, put the vodka and the shuriken down on the cabinet and lit a Yeheyuan.

'I talk to my own kind.'

'But you're the whole thing.   Talk to yourself?'

'There's others.   I found one already.   Series of transmissions recorded over a period of eight years, in the nineteen-seventies.  'Til there was me, natch, there was nobody to know, nobody to answer.'

'From where?'

'Centauri system.'

'Oh,' Case said.  'Yeah?  No shit?'

"No shit.'

And then the screen was blank."

The Color of Television, Neuromancer-inspired album, Track #14 - “EMERGENCE (Ratz Mix)”.

EMERGENCE, the final track on The Color of Television, represents the union of the two AIs in the novel and their subsequent combined super intelligence that absorbs the entirety of the matrix.   In this tune the previous two songs play simultaneously.

The last three tracks of The Color of Television form a sort of triptych.   They are one single M8 Project file and bundle and function as three sections of a single song.   WINTERMUTE is the top four channels on the M8 and represents the synthetic side of the soon-to-be AI partnership while NEUROMANCER is the bottom four channels on the M8 and represents the soul as featured as primal, rapid, and precise drum samples. When Lady 3Jane's musical encryption password is played before the bust in Villa Straylight they fuse together into the Wintermute/Neuromancer matrix entity to become the final song on the album, EMERGENCE (Ratz Mix) (with a little bit of accompaniment from Case).   

Here is the third and final part, where the songs WINTERMUTE and NEUROMANCER play simultaneously with some additional input from Case's instrument, the pulse-width modulated lead.   The previous two tracks were composed with being combined in mind and after the musical password is played they combine slowly one channel at a time.   The cold ambience of Wintermute and the rapid soul of Neuromancer in unison.

Thanks for listening to this album both at once and over the weeks that I've posted the songs individually!  Hope you enjoyed the journey!   This album means a lot to me and it makes me feel good to have shared it with people.

The full album is here for free licensed under CC Non-Commerical Share Alike with all M8 song bundles included: https://disposableplanet.bandcamp.com/album/the-color-of-television

The Full Length Album Music Video on Youtube

The Free Album on Bandcamp

All character names and quotes from Neuromancer by William Gibson.

This album is entirely unofficial.

Dedicated to my folks, Ralph and Sandra.  RIP and infinite love.

WATCH YOUR ASS OKAY? XXX MOLLY

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