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Music and words: Michael W. Dean
Voice and words: Phil Wormuth
This song is not microtonal except the intro before the arps come in (5 TET). Also some of the vocal samples are 24 TET.
Fun fact: there are 42 tracks in this song, the most I’ve ever used in a song. Reaper did not balk and did a great job.
LYRICS:
Sorting the data and uploading me to the cloud.
Snorting the data and uploading me to the cloud.
Here’s a little USB drive.
It’s ancient technology.
It was my grandfather.
You can talk to him with this.
All his dreams and all his schemes and everything
he felt between
gone in an instant
but here today in a zettabyte of binary truth
and non-synthetic thought.
Vocoded and replaced with indistinguishable intelligent
agents that allow him to live on.
Take, eat, this is his life.
Snorting the data,
snorting the lyrics.
Snorting the data,
SNORTING THE LYRICS
through the crayon up my nose.
Before the system was categorical chaos
manifested in digested conversations
that only no one heard.
Hurled words that met with difficult resistance.
Hard to comprehend the extent
of the hollow malice intended to crush
and sublimate, rather than elevate
and inspire that which it negates.
Snorting the data and uploading me to the cloud.
Snoring the data and uploading me to the cloud.
Snorting the lyrics and uploading me to the cloud, through the crayon in my nose.
Sorting the data and uploading me to the cloud.
Snorting the data and uploading me to the cloud.