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CONTEMPLATRON & SHENTZ - His Master's Voice

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Wrotycz Records WRT 025 Release Year: 2016 Note: a Polish soundtrack to STANISLAW LEM's novel "His Master's Voice' from 1968, a philosophical story about the first contact with extraterrestrials and the effort to decode their messages... this unusual collaboration by the ritual dark ambient project CONTEMPLATRON with harsh noise act SHENTZ relates to the ability to decipher structured information out of the chaos of the universe; the 51+ min. noise & ambientscape develops from abrasiveness into something more sophistacted, and back to chaos.. Price (incl. 19% VAT): €12.00 More Info In memory of Stanisław Lem (1921-2006) "Human beings should accept some humility. Sometimes we face phenomena the essence of which we are unable to understand. Even if we are equipped with the most modern scientific apparatus and knowledge we are incapable of resolving whether they are accidental or intentional. Newton once said that with respect to nature we are just children playing with shells on the seashore." - Stanisław Lem "His Master's Voice" (original Polish title: "Głos Pana") is a science fiction novel by Stanisław Lem, first published in 1968. It is a densely philosophical first-contact story about scientific efforts to decode, translate, and understand an extraterrestrial transmission. The novel can also be read as a critique of human intelligence and intentionality in the context of deciphering a message from outer space which forever eludes comprehension. Chaos is the primordial source that cosmically resounds in the microwave background radiation across the universe. To find sequences in this cacophonous confusion, to discover its principles and understand them, only to die holding on to a scrap of something much larger – this is what Lem's book as well as its apocryphal soundtrack are about. The abstract sound layers were created by two Polish artists from Contemplatron (dark ritual ambient) and Shentz (noise), and mastered by Peter Andersson (Raison d'être). Comes in 6 panel digipack. www.wrotycz.com