The Machine Stops

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In 1909 E.M. Forster imagined a world where all communication was through a machine. In 2021 lockdown meant that all of our communication was online. When all of our communication is through the machine, what happens when the machine stops?

Remastered 2022-07-09

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Imagine, if you can, a small room.
There are no musical instruments, and yet,
this room is throbbing with melodious sounds.
She could see the image of her son.
"I want you to come and see me."
"But I can see you!"
"I want to see you not through the machine"
"I want to speak to you, not through the machine"
"The machine is much, but it is not everything"
"I see something"
"But I do not see you"
"I hear something like you"
"But I do not hear you"
The woman touched a switch and the music was silent.
The machine stops.

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from 0 To 1, track released July 9, 2021
Music: Jim Purbrick
Vocals: Jenilee
Words: E. M. Forster

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Alien Alarms combine poetry, prose, philosophy and found sounds with live, improvised generative rhythms, beat chopping and custom software to make music about love, loss, technology and society for the head, the feet and the heart.

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