The Precession of Simulacra

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Limited edition cassette, 32-page pamphlet of fiction, essays and collages + art cards and stickers
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Pro-duplicated black cassette with embossed vinyl labelling, single sided insert and transparent solid case.

'Thoughts on the Precession of Simulacra' is a 32-page saddle-stitched A5 pamphlet – a personal collection of ~9000 words of fiction, short essays and artwork inspired by themes of identity and representation, postmodernism and memory. This is in addition to the 22-page PDF digital zine.

Also included: 1x satin art card printed on premium card featuring track list artwork; 1x matte print of the album artwork featuring in its centre a smaller holographic vinyl print of the artwork – the beginning of an image loop and the Droste effect in action; set of 6x large premium stickers featuring release-themed designs; plus, a hand-numbered contents card.

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	1.	Part One 11:16
	2.	Part Two 13:43

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The Precession of Simulacra is a journey through reflections, refractions and the hyperreal, echoing a society where imagination precedes reality.

A: Part One

Sea of symbols
Holographic reality
Truth simulation

B: Part Two

Hyperreal horizon
Anthropogenic signifier
Elegiac maps

Simulation created September 2021.

About the limited edition collection: music | text | art | theory

The accompanying physical pamphlet, digital zine, art cards and sticker set expands themes explored in audio across theory-based fiction, short essays and artwork. These include: reflections on the process of writing and authorship; how we tell and edit our own story; daydreaming about images, meaning and legacy; navigating interstitial online spaces, and more. Replications of analog collages function to link sections.

Text and collages created 2018-2021. Printed by Heavy Cloud Press.

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“Part One begins with aquatic percussive clutter and swirling sonic debris, before moving into text-generated (the author's own as well as some literary heavyweights) synth tones as a sci-fi melancholy floats up from the ocean floor and spreads across lonesome streets.

“Part Two shares a dialogue with what came before, but follows its own simulated network and engagement with the subconscious. Gurgling, watery synths blend with blasts of cut-up samples, polyphonic tones and VHS alien chatter. Melodic waves and lofi loops provide a weathered neon calm.” – Without Origin or Reality (2021)

“No matter what sounds are present, they all have the same quality of feeling, well, unreal.” – On the Fringes of Sound

“The simulacrum is never that which conceals the truth—it is the truth which conceals that there is none. The simulacrum is true.” – Jean Baudrillard, Selected Writings (1988)

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released October 14, 2021

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