WINTERMUTE
By Disposable Planet on August 18, 2024 2:08 am
"'Hello, Case.'
A fifty-lirasi coin fell from his hand, bounced, and rolled out of sight across the Hilton carpeting.
'Wintermute, Case. It's time we talk.'
It was a chip voice.
'Don't you want to talk, Case?'
He hung up.
On his way back to the lobby, his cigarettes forgotten, he had to walk the length of the ranked phones. Each rang in turn, but only once, as he passed."
The Color of Television, Neuromancer-inspired album, Track #12 - "WINTERMUTE".
WINTERMUTE, the cold and mathematical artificial intelligence behind the events of the novel, makes their debut this week. This tune is all synthetic and the only one on the album not to have a beat (...yet). 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 first part, the ambient tune that shows WINTERMUTE's synthetic side complete with some cold arps and a haunting and somber refrain. It begins with Case's first encounter with Wintermute along the wall of public payphones.
EDIT: I am updating all my The Color of Television Neuromancer tracks from my WB rule album on weeklybeats with quotes from the novel so check in on some older tracks for some new Gibsonian flair.
Thanks for listening so far! More to come! Next week the eponymous AI of the novel and diviner of the silver paths, Neuromancer is featured as the second part of the closing triptych.
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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