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* 04 "Matrix Multiplication" ("Escape the Grid")

"Escape the Grid" was not mortmain()'s first recording, but it was the
first recording to become mp3s that were released on the web site, and
the first recording to be self-analyzed and released with accompanying
written context.  The symbol of an oppressive grid was meant to
dominate the web site.  This grid symbolized the orderly process, the
result of formulas, modern music in general, and how music had failed
us personally.  "Escape the Grid" was simultaneously a self conscious
joke ("we'll get as much sex as Merzbow if we can get this on the
radio!") and a legitimate but naive attempt to escape the prison of
music by destroying it.  Of course, it failed at both intentions.
However, it surprised us, in that it was liberating.  When we fell
exhausted on the sofas in the other room, and listened to it play
back, we accepted it, and understood deeply how to embrace failure.
It gave both of us a great deal of comfort with the idea of creating
and recording disagreeable, radical, noise.

The re-interpretation of these recordings goes far from the process
used to create the originals.  The names given to the four sub-parts
of this recreation are relatively unimportant associations with
concepts related to parallel programming.  There was a fifth track on
the original, but it has been eliminated in this re-interpretation for
no particular reason.


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