NEUROMANCER
By Disposable Planet on August 25, 2024 5:37 pm
"'I know you,' Case said, Linda beside him.
'No,' the boy said, his voice high and musical, 'You do not.'
'You're the other AI. You're Rio. You're the one who wants to stop Wintermute. What's your name? Your Turing code. What is it?'
The boy did a handstand in the surf, laughing. He walked on his hands, then flipped out of the water. His eyes were Riviera's, but there was no malice there. 'To call up a demon you must learn its name. Men dreamed that, once, but now it is real in another way. You know that, Case. Your business is to learn the names of programs, the long formal names, names the owners seek to conceal. True names...'
'A Turing code's not your name'
'Neuromancer,' the boy said, slitting long gray eyes against the rising sun. 'The lane to the land of the dead. Where you are, my friend. Marie-France, my lady, she prepared this road but her lord choked her off before I could read the book of her days. Neuro from the nerves, the silver paths. Romancer. Necromancer. I call up the dead. But no, my friend," and the boy did a little dance, brown feet printing the sand, 'I am the dead and their land.' He laughed. A gull cried. 'Stay. If your woman is a ghost, she doesn't know it. Neither will you.'
'You're cracking. The ice is breaking up.'"
The Color of Television, Neuromancer-inspired album, Track #13 - "NEUROMANCER".
NEUROMANCER, the penultimate track of the album, is designed to show the primal soul through drumbeat. The final 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 second part, the raw drums of Neuromancer's ability to save the souls of the dead, like a ROM construct recalls a personality, only here there is the ability for the soul of the recalled to grow and live. This tune, aside from a small pumping bass, is almost entirely drums. The final mathematical output of an AI on a collision course with another.
Thanks for listening so far! More to come! Next week is the final track - the third part of the closing triptych - EMERGENCE, where Wintermute and Neuromance combine after being merged in cyberspace with the Turing locks disengaged. What do they become? God? The entire matrix? Find out.
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
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.
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Me love some breakbeats!