Robot gets hit by a car crossing through Kelley Square (Had he passed the Turing Test, he would have known not to try that.) He ascends into the Chinese Room, where he has access to total knowledge through an infinite number of fortune cookies.

One can hear a lot of interesting things in the silence of the night (particularly when their plumbing freezes).

Bits and Pieces

Executed entirely upon the Roland JX-3P if I recall correctly. The title refers to the three interwoven harmonic lines.

I wrote this while my mother was terminally ill. She had three stays at Sisters of Providence in Portland at the end of her life. Real-life events did not have the rosy outcome I was hoping for.

All Korg M1, I think.

Perhaps inspired by a misremembered line of T.S. Eliot? I thought the line was, "I have measured out time in teaspoonfuls." The proper line is "I have measured out my life in coffee spoons." Oh well. I like my bungled line better.

Everyone is so full of it these days. Know what I mean?

I had something to say about this track, but I can't remember what it was. Never mind. ;) Mostly executed upon the Roland JX-3P, if I recall rightly. Drums, choir pad, and piano courtesy of the Yamaha CS1x.

Madame Fortune seems to enjoy spinning that wheel of hers. It's tough to keep up sometimes. As Gilda always used to say, "it's always something." Executed entirely upon the Korg DW-6000 and Yamaha CS1x.

some punk stuff

A custom QBASIC program wrote this.

A custom QBASIC program wrote this.

Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.

Assembled from QBASIC sound effects and sustained square waves.

Ambient tones and spoken word, a spell by Deborah Blake from her book Everyday Witchcraft. Synth tones created in Pure Data.

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