The Arecibo Lamentations
LP by Northern Information
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Tracklist
- one is opposite six (2:15)
- Living Numbers (4:39)
- death is the only way out of the information age (1:29)
- baccarat (3:26)
- The Arecibo Lamentations (12:59)
- powerlines (0:48)
- time's arrow, our north star (0:58)
- COMbyne jlu13_0016 (3:32)
- husk_L (2:57)
Notes
-13,800,000,000: the universe forms.
-4,500,000,000: the moon forms.
-66,000,000: the Chicxulub impactor kills 75% of everything.
01945: the first nuclear device is detonated at the Trinity Site.
01960: construction of the Arecibo Observatory begins.
01963: construction of the Arecibo Observatory ends.
01974: the Arecibo message is broadcast.
01985: Carl Sagan's novel, Contact, is published.
02020: the Arecibo Observatory collapses.
03000: the 10,000 Year Clock chimes thrice.
+26,974: the Arecibo message arrives at M13.
+10^14: star formation ceases.
+10^40: black holes dominate the universe.
+10^100: if protons decay, the universe suffers heat death.
*All above dates and events are inaccurate.
Any proceeds from the sale of this album will be donated to the Arecibo Observatory: www.naic.edu/ao/donations
Credits
Thanks to Dan Derks, Brian Crabtree, Ryan Laws, Zack Scholl, Cory Salveson, Sage Etters, & Pasha Petrosyan.
Augured, coded, patched, written, performed, lamented, and engineered by Tyler Etters in 2020.