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Overlooking a Small Town

from Die Alone by Silence and Secrecy

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What, exactly, would it feel like to be a god walking the earth? What would the shift in perspective do, given prior experiences? See the little people. See their petty fears and cruelties. Now begin to subtract....

One of my first attempts in earnest to fuse the xenharmonic tuning practices I had been working with in my Fever Carpets material with more conventional song forms and chord progressions. The process of individually pitch-shifting, cutting, copying and pasting different notes and chords using an outdated version of Garageband and an as-yet-not-pimped-out version of Audacity was arduous but rewarding. The beau's rather radical remix is directly integrated into the final version, resulting in a very full, rich sound, I think.

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There are trees.
There are doors.
There are steps.
There are windows.
There are holes in the walls.
There are people in the holes.
There are people in the holes in the walls.
I am laughing at the people in the holes in the walls.

Displace my view; displace my location.
The view forever changes, but the viewer never changes.
God is ever watchful.
They tell themselves that God is ever watchful.
How they do these things to one another, I will never know.
How they do things, I will never know.
How do they know?
Do they know they know?
They know what they know.
How do I not know?

In the mirror, I am laughing.
I cut myself shaving.
There's broken glass in the meal and in the bread—
I will take these things from them.

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from Die Alone, released May 7, 2016

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Purveyor of fine musical curios, grotesques and arabesques since 1 January 2014. Mostly just one weirdo in a literal attic.

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