»256 light years of latency« presents eighteen pieces of speculative sonic archaeology, imagining how a distant future might reconstruct the sounds of our present.
long after the collapse of contemporary civilization, researchers recover faint electromagnetic echoes of earth’s radio broadcasts, television signals and data streams reflected across interstellar space.
decoded through unfamiliar technologies, these fragments form an unstable archive of a world whose languages, cultures and machines have become almost impossible to understand.
created in collaboration with the ACIDS lab and IRCAM in paris, the album introduces torch-bend, a form of code-based circuit bending that pushes neural synthesis models trained with RAVE beyond stable operation. recognizable sounds surface within fractured textures, shifting harmonies and noise, then dissolve into distorted reconstructions.
conceived as both an album and an audiovisual performance, »256 light years of latency« approaches AI as an imperfect archaeological instrument. its reconstruction errors shape the listening experience, blurring the boundaries between recovered memory, interference and invention.
