Who Is Earthshine?

Recorded in November 2021 for the REM Challenge

Running Time: 35:00

Later Released On: "Ratione Personae Mentalis"

Label: The Church Of Noisy Goat

Release Date: 9th March 2022

Format: Download

Buy Link: Bandcamp

< Cage Edit - 4:33 / Full Version - 35:00 >      

Skit works his evil magic on innocent white noise...

Unfortunately, these have come into the public domain backwards! "These?" Allow me to explain; it's actually a run-on from UnCaged: 33'4'', which you can read about on the next page, coz it came out several days afterwards. White, pink and brown noise are often used to mask background sounds, that's what that track was all about, silence by other means, but Skit wondered about alternate uses. You know, could you make ears bleed with it? He's very interested in things like that. And, as luck would have it, we had only a few days to produce our 10th 35 minute aural torturer for the RPM Challenge's monthly cousin...

Our Twizz has a white noise machine in her room to help her sleep peacefully (not that I'd be snoring in an adjacent bedroom or anything), I didn't want to think of white noise in any other way. But Skit insisted.

"Look what happen when Skit mess with EQ!" He grinned fiendishly, lifting one of the frequency bars with a click of the mouse.

Suddenly, this peaceful bringer of sleep was hissing ferociously at us. I slunk into the corner, dropped to the floor and put my head on my knees in distress.

"Skit not finish yet! Hah!" He shouted, continuing to manipulate controls I could no longer see.

I started to tremble and sob audibly. It engendered no empathy.

"What about THIS!?" He continued without mercy.

It was worse. To be honest, I could have used a fresh tissue, but didn't want to give him the satisfaction of asking. I wanted to leave The Mmatterialisation Chamber, but I was in an awkward position, and it's not that easy getting up again at my age.

"AND THIS!"

I was just waiting for him to shout "IT'S ALIVE!" by this point.

"HARSH WHITE NOISE, YAS!"

You'd think he had invented something completely new, and maybe he has, only time can be the judge of that.

"We can't possibly put that out," I said, "it could permanently damage people's hearing."

"You big girl's blouse." He replied, poking me in the face with Twizz's dressing up wand, I knew the game was up.

"Alas, I fear I am undone by your skilfully crafted expostulation." I had no choice other than concession, and he accordingly made me wear Twizz's fairy wings for the rest of the afternoon.

So here it is, our 10th cacophonic symphony for Mr. Lien and crew. Who Is Earthshine? Why, by some strange coincidence, it just happens to be an anagram of 'harsh white noise'. And as we usually say at this point, small world...

UNCAGED: 33'4''