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28/9/2022 0 Comments

Scattered Light - D​.​A. #017-A​.​D. 2022 (Dust Archive)

What Your Ears Say & The Cover Looks LIke


What We Say

Phantom piano sounds float about the late night introspection encouraging sound stage at will, as instrumental bubbles float to the surface before bursting at the limits of their physical limitations to become one with the gently swirling ambient surrounds in this fine midweek decompression soundtrack from Scattered Light for Dust Archive.

What The Release Notes Say

On 31.12.2021 we found in the mailbox of our studio an eviction letter, for defaulting behavior, reporting the address of some place we never rented. Being the location just a couple of blocks from our studio, we immediately jumped on the car for on-the-spot investigation, to find a small white building we never noticed, even though we grew up in the neighborhood. Big windows covered from the inside with taped paper, a green metal door, firmly locked. As soon as one let the handle go, another slowly said: “I think we do have the key”. We ran to the studio to grab the key we found in a box, sent to us by someone unknown, exactly 2 years earlier. 
Jump cut, 

and the key clicks into the lock. 
Cellar smell, dust particles dancing in the light, there’s a table in the center of the room, on top of the table there are 4 cardboard boxes, on the top of each box, handwritten, with a black thick pencil: “A.D. 2022”. 

What follows is the content of the box 
Dust Archive protocol code: D.A. #017 - A.D. 2022 

∙ [SP#085] to [SP#092] spools of tape 
∙ [IT#047] abstract print* 
∙ [IT#048] VHS tape** 
∙ [IT#049] cyanotype portrait; on the back, handwritten: 

Scattered Light, Sydney, Australia, 1911*** 

∙ [IT#050] sheet of paper, containing notes handwritten with a black 
ballpen. Transcription follows: 

"1.2037 
A snowflake down 
a quite different line 
a position in time 
up toward a 3-sphere 
now there 
now here 
like a climber 
hanging on the fractures 
in an uncountable number 
of exotic smooth structures"

CREDITS
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D.A. #017 - A.D. 2022 

Aural findings level matching, internet streaming transmigration and cyanotypes investigation: BIAS 
www.bias.space 

Abstract prints digitization and graphic design supervision: Vita Tae Zorat 

VHSes digitization, poetry transcription, metaphor tracking: Arnoux 
fabioarnosti.com 


*The “abstract prints”, punctually present with each group of tapes, were chosen to become the cover art for the online music streaming platforms, superimposing subsequently the protocol code we generated for the boxes 

**Excerpts from the VHS tape can be seen at: www.instagram.com/dustarchive 

***Tracking down the personal details present in the back of the cyanotypes we got in touch with the unknown, getting to know there is an actual correspondence between names, locations and subjects of the portrait, even though the dates make no sense. The persons were totally unaware of the existence of these boxes and its content, denying that the portrait was ever taken, and although we are informed the persons are all musicians, they can not confirm they ever performed the music recorded in the spools, although recognizing it as “extremely familiar”, “absurdly typical”, “as own”. 
For completeness we had permission to disclose the identity of the subject to get a fully tackable thread on the facts surrounding Dust Archive: 

www.instagram.com/scattered____light/ 

The box and its content is in storage at our new facility.

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