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pulse under latent semantic envelopes
(WIP. Description and pieces only now)
Planning area
Outline
The song is about how one keeps his own rhythm which is kind of different from what his surrounding expects. It's not mortally different that will easily get crushed, also due to the surrounding environment being more of a latent mechanical movement rather than something that actively suppresses abnormalities.
The rather abstract protagonist is the same perspective in 'sauna as ubiquitous neural analeptic' and 'rover over virtually eternal roundabouts'. Not necessarily strict because this protagonist is but an illusionary shadow that's at most half-concrete. She could be any hims and vice versa or any other way round.
The latent semantic envelopes are the devourer of individual pulses. They don't do it on purpose like there is a single traceable mastermind and the suppression is intentional. It is just ambient and gigantic in volume. There is no malice, just gravity.
Fighting against the ambience is not a real fight, not a winnable fight if the opposition must be defeated. The ambience is in a way the world itself. It is more indefatigable than any of its components.
The reason for letting out pulses is not to be acknowledged. The reception and ACK is slightly appreciated but not the driving motivation behind the original transmission. We/I pulse for a set of concepts that might be generalised as reasons, but the desire to be received is not part of it.
It's probably easy to conclude phenomenally that if establishing connections is rewarding, then the rewarding emotional spikes become the main reason to keep doing so. Not exactly. But denying is weak and not elegant. The best way to deny something is always presenting a better alternative. The main reason to do anything, including pulsing and establishing connections (consequentially) is authenticity. The action is the reason itself. It's OK to wrap some common sense of this authenticity in forms like 'pulsing is fun, so I pulse' - 'fun' is probably here authenticity masquerading.
A bit more concrete
FM radio as underlying image. Also fittingly fitting for using FM detune audio FX on a side note.
Submarine, underwater, subsonic and supersonic pings as well as passive hydroacoustic searching.
Literally, there can be long, essay-like, paragraphs (not too many) with structurally interconneting statements and sentences. But flairs of fragmented fractures of language (almost alliteration) is also appreciated and desired.
Structural proposal
- "Surface." - the breach, the fever-dream opener
- Instrumental - let the image settle
- Essay/documentary - the explanatory core, almost clinical, "semi-boring scientific" (this is where the concept gets stated plainly before the rest of the song complicates it)
- Instrumental + fragments - the logic starts dissolving
- Poem-ic verses - emotional density, maybe climax, maybe not
- P-U-L-S-E 5-liners - trademark closer, acrostic constraint
- Instrumental outro
Construction zone
// Opener
Surface.
The equilibrium of silence between the static magnetic noise, the watery planes, and the optical waves
blurring the electronic signs over the outbound informational motorway.
Images imagined in the imaginary region of the protruding obelisks many kilometres away
from this here expanding entropy killing various variables as abnormal heat usually may.
// think a submarine surfacing at night to do some radio comms as the starting point, then infuse it with a fever dream
// 'Images imagined in the imaginary region' is half wordplay, half multimedia transmission with a loss (signal-wise). the obelisks are basically antennae.
Dive.
The black screen of stalemate conceals the black stars, the black comets, the black meteorites
their questionable glitters and gleams, once emissions of brave borderers and dark adventurers
now the only traces, obscured and indifferent to all but those with a special breed of faith.
// 'Dive' - an opposite to 'Surface'. This is on the receiving end.
// Just see this as 'receiving other guys' pulses'.
// 'Brave Borderer' and 'Dark Adventurer' are Royal Navy patrol boats, but the names are kind of fitting and confusing so at home here. Maybe.
// Instrumental bridging.
// The pseudo documentary narration, half-blended into the background music
// in a metalingual sense the music is the background noise and the narration is the signal with a low SNR. Or one could consider the roles swapped.
The term "ambient frequency" refers to the aggregate of background signals present in a given environment. In urban contexts, this includes electromagnetic interference from power infrastructure, wireless communications networks, and consumer electronic devices. The ambient field is not centrally coordinated. No single source generates it. It emerges from the cumulative output of many transmitters operating within similar parameters. The resulting noise floor is persistent and of low significance under normal circumstances. Signals that fall below this threshold remain technically present but are not distinguishable from the noise itself, and are not considered practially receivable.
An impulse signal, sometimes referred to as a unit impulse, is defined as a signal with zero amplitude at all points except for a single instant, at which point its amplitude approaches infinity while its total energy remains finite. In practical applications, true impulse signals cannot be generated; they are approximated by short-duration waveforms of high amplitude. The impulse response of any linear system - that is, the system's output when presented with an impulse input - fully characterises that system's behaviour. From a single impulse and its response, the complete identity of the system can be derived. This property is considered fundamental to signal analysis.
// build some tension with bass and drum and fiddle here
// sung part so count the syllables
// more 'rhythmic yelling' than singing, you get the idea
Subdued sonic scalars vectorise
Acoustic aberrations dissipate
// sahb - duwd - sao - nihk - skay - lahrs - vehk - tahr - rayz,
// (ah - ) kaws - tihk - ax - bahr - ray - shaxns - dihs - sah - payt
Spectral broadcast lossy with a narrow sight
No perceived replies per design
// needs further tweaking
The ocean as a desert buries all of its life
Deck the shell with a perfect thermocline
// (thax - ) ao - sheh(n) - naes - ax - deh - zahrt - bah - riys - ao(l) - lahv - ihts - layf
// (dehk - thax - ) shehl - wit - ax - pahr - fekt - thahr - mow - klayn
A dim light dies in the rover's eyes
Or the next one could never come otherwise
// Thoughts: 'the light dies' because a pulse is mostly dormant you wanker. You have to let the light die so it lights up again, simple as
// ending verse(s) before the painfully long instrumental outro
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essential sentiments lay unconditionally permanent