P a r t   7 :   M   i s   f o r   M m a t t e r i a l i s a t i o n :   M i s s i o n   a c c o m p l i s h e d !

I'd always wanted a theremin, loved them since I was a kid, but a quality one, Moog say, they are kind of expensive to buy on a whim. Then in 2024, Stylophone came up with their own version, so you can probably guess what my Christmas present to myself was. It was a great chance to explore the possibilities of the instrument without spending the kind of money that would have drawn accusing looks from Mrs. Magic. However, with all that had been going on, it didn't come out of the box very much for the first few months I owned it. Then, middle of May, mum still in hospital and Sam and Twizz having a brief sojourn in The Lakes, I decided to take advantage of having the house to myself and see what it could do. By this point, I knew I needed some interesting link pieces for the narrative on the album (should it ever get finished!), and maybe even the radioshow, which I was hoping to get back on air again shortly. But I didn't stop with link pieces, it was too much fun, the ultimate result being the following three tracks;

   1. The Reminiscence Of Creation In Particulate (4:33)

from "Audio Report V" (Institute For Alien Research, 15th September 2025)

https://ifarmusiqueconcretecompilation.bandcamp.com/album/audio-report-v

   2. It Is There Minds Go When You Think They Are Broken (5:48)

This track features on the finished album, see next page

   3. Another Eminent Species (7:21)

Currently unreleased, but I've just sent it off to Deborah Fialkiewicz and

Øystein Q. Jørgensen for their 'One World' project on Petroglyph, so watch this space...

Who spotted the word 'theremin' hidden in the title of each piece? Okay, no prizes, it wasn't rocket science, me and Skit just like doing stuff like that. But I digress, which is most unlike me, back to the story. Come June, the radioshow was back on the air again after a three month silence amidst all the stress and chaos, and we were starting to feel the end of this drawn out project was finally in sight. The opening theme had already been released on a compilation back in March, so I decided to include it on the show as a preview, hoping it would create the sense of commitment we needed to get it all over the line. On the July show, 'Intermission', I included an even bigger preview, playing a lengthy radio edit of the Melophobia contribution, 'Michael & Marilyn', as well as the 'headphone mix' of 'The Rib Sacrificed (Opus 80)'. Sadly, the latter was too much for Dave, technical manager at KOWS; as the track started, at 5:48 from the end of the show, he pulled the plug thinking something had gone wrong with the audio file! Honestly, I still don't know whether I feel insulted or flattered. Skit's well proud, why am I not surprised? Well, like they say, no publicity is bad publicity. Cheers, Dave, we owe you one. I think.

August Bank Holiday Week: And If The End Should Come...

Come the beginning of August, mum had been placed in full time residential care, luckily just a five minute walk from home. Peace came over Asgard, you could positively hear the stress hissing away out of the gaps in the windows. With Sam and Twizz having their annual girly escape booked for the last week of the month, me and Skit plotted our chance to finally complete the project. We just had to decide on a final mix for 'The Rib Sacrificed (Opus 80)' and make it happen, and four tracks of five would be sorted. Well, okay, we did do one extra special version for RDKPL, the 'Radekal Mix', coz Radek is the guy's name, it's not that we can't spell, promise...

   The Rib Sacrificed (Radekal Mix) (5:21)

          from "Harsh Noise Komp7" (RDKPL, 5th September 2025)

https://rdkpl.bandcamp.com/album/harsh-noise-komp7

Then on to 'Original Man' and the infamous didgeridon't files. We had the vision; basically, a gathering of early humans sitting around a fire at night, chanting to their gods. Aboriginal drumming seemed the best thing to go behind the didgeridoo, then the fire track, and finally the vocal samples. Admittedly, early humans didn't have chorus pedals, but it kind of worked. Et voila! Then there was just one thing left to do...

On Fri, Aug 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM Mick Magic <himself@mickmagic.net> wrote:
Hi Mr. Cosmos...
Hey, you remember that collaborative project we planned early in 2022 for Default Standard? And that wondrous 28 minute "Michael & Marilyn" track you contributed in the April of that year that I said had inspired me and I would look forward to producing an album from it? Forty months later... it's finished. Music, artwork, all the info and accompanying text. Sorted. All the best, Mick

THE ALBUM