Broken Lines (Mix)

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If you have ever watched Stanley Kubrick‘s “2001 – Space Odyssey“, you will definitely remember the impressive scene in which the memory modules are slowly taken away from HAL, the ship’s main computer, because it started to disfunction and became a threat to the astronauts and their mission.
Just before his memory fades completely, HAL remembers being programmed to sing“Daisy”, one of his earliest digital ‘childhood memories’.

With this scene (as well as with HAL‘s name), Kubrick directly referred to the IBM 7094 computer (used to control the Mercury and Gemini space flights, as well as the Apollo missions) which was programmed to sing Daisy in 1961 – a remarkable accomplishment at that time!

Computer systems revolting, loss of memory, human utterings that seem to come from lost souls….
I guess you’d better be prepared for a dark and suspenseful listening hour …

If you have listened to this mix, I’m really curious to know what you think, so please let me know!
(and please let your friends know, also… just spread the word and make these mixes heard … thanks for your help!)

Playlist

Track Start – Sample Length – Artist – Title
Album Details

• 00:00 03:33 Huan Qing – Guang Wu Road #108
  Hexiefu, 2011, FM Productions Ltd, FM3CD01
• 01:27 02:16 Hiroki Sasajima – Nanoparticle
  Escala 2.3.1 Ice, 2012, Escala 2:3
• 01:46 03:25 Aalfang Mit Pferdekopf – Die Hungervogellockvorrichtung
  Kall Trä, 2012, Empiric Records emrec 1
• 03:51 01:46 Maile Colbert/Simon Whetham – Light Brutal
  Meditations on Light, Reconstructions, 2011, Monochrome Vision mv35
• 04:47 01:11 Neil Milton – The Broken Lines
  Brave New World, 2011, FeedbackLoop Label FB010
• 06:02 01:43 Pierpaolo Leo – Bioluminescence
  Underwater Noises, 2010, Ephre Imprint IC/eph01
• 06:28 01:50 Alio Die – Little Pain
  Funeral Songs, 2001, Crowd Control Activities CCA 026
• 07:25 03:33 Max Richter – When She Came Back
  Elle S’Appelait Sarah, 2010, Jade 6997269
• 09:24 05:06 Loscil – Endless Falls
  Endless Falls, 2010, Kranky krank141
• 12:57 02:15 Ex.Order – Shuchu Ryoku Part 3
  Incendium III, 2011, Loki Foundation LOKI 54
• 14:31 02:33 Specta Ciera – There Were No More Days After That
  Ceci N’Est Pas Une Pipe, 2009, Public Spaces Lab PS010
• 15:23 04:17 Somatic Response – Fear Chasing Hope (Zombie Subway HC Edit)
  …And Darkness Came, 2012, Headphone Commute HCD001
• 16:45 04:52 Stanley Kubrick – HAL Memory Unload Sequence
  2001, A Space Odyssey, 1968, MGM
• 18:22 06:02 Runar Magnusson – The Heathen Harp: A Pärt for the Dreamachine
  Options, 2009, Hljóðaklettar – #HKUSB1
• 21:31 01:55 Holly Herndon – Breathe
  Movement, 2012, RVNG Intl RVNGL 15
• 23:15 01:45 [Blank] – Sueño
  Sueño, 2012, F4TMusic F4TS001
• 23:50 02:52 Dustin O’Halloran – Fragile No. 2
  …And Darkness Came, 2012, Headphone Commute HCD001
• 25:33 05:20 Richard Chartier – Rendered 1_2009
  10, 2011, Room40 DRM410
• 27:16 05:19 Y Create – Diablo Coast Range
  The Walls Are Whispering vol. II, 2004, EE Tapes EE05
• 31:33 02:01 Pawel Grabowski – Untitled
  Essays on Radio: Can I Have 2 Minutes of Your Time?, 2005, Cronica 020
• 32:14 03:31 Carlos Suarez – Vanitas
  Escala 2.3.1 Ice, 2012, Escala 2:3
• 33:53 02:27 Enrico Coniglio – Calls of the White
  Dialogue One, 2011, Silentes CD 201128
• 35:51 03:40 Alva Noto – Stalker (For Andrei Tarkovsky)
  For 2, 2010, Line Line_044
• 38:35 00:59 Kate Carr – One Minute For the Stars
  One Minute For the Stars, 2011, SEM Label, SEM 011
• 38:37 04:34 Runar Magnusson – The Delicate Work of the Creator
  The Greatest of the Great, 2005, Hljóðaklettar
• 39:13 08:52 Sala – The Hollow Pine
  Somewhere on the Edge, 2012, Gruenrekorder GRUEN 100
• 40:19 06:15 Antonymes– Collapsed
  Five Pieces, 2012, Rural Colours RC050
• 46:10 01:15 Machinefabriek – Cymbal (edit)
  Sequence 3, 2012, Future Sequence SEQ003
• 46:33 03:05 Andrew Liles – Foreigner
  New York Doll, 2004, Infraction INFX 013
• 48:36 02:20 Atom TM – Vienna
  1I3835Tra3Um3, 2010, Rather Interesting RI 067
• 49:55 03:36 Lawrence English – A Ballad for the Machine
  Loud Listening, 2012, Cronica 067
• 51:51 03:44 Dead Voices On Air – From Afar All Sparks and Glee
  From Afar All Sparks and Glee, 2010, Lens Records LENS0118
• 54:14 05:01 Bass Communion – Dronework
  Dronework, 2005, Headphone Dust HDBCCD14
• 56:50 01:35 IBM 7094 – Daisy Bell
  programmed by John Kelly and Carol Lockbaum,
  accompaniment programmed by Max Matthews (1961)
• 59:15 End

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Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do,
I’m half crazy all for the love of you.
It won’t be a stylish marriage,
I can’t afford a carriage,
But you’d look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.
(Harry Dacre, 1892)

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