Imagine the Missile

from A Thousand Years of Sunlight by NWSPR

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Imagine the Missile was inspired by a passage in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. This track is unique on this EP as it is the only composition to use no percussion. It was written as an intro to set the tone of the EP rather than an individual song, it is composed entirely of monophonic synthesizer using the Arturio Microbrute keyboard. Spoken word voice over using the Mac OS voice feature.

lyrics

Note: Text to Speech by NWSPR. Inspired by and in direct reference to the works of Thomas Pynchon.

Imagine a present. A gift unknown.
A rainbow arching endlessly
Tracing all points to the same conclusion.
Imagine the missile. One hears it approaching.
Imagine a line describing the missile's path beyond it's impact.
Imagine the missile.

(This portion is an excerpt from Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon)
Imagine the missile. One hears approaching only after it explodes.
The reversal. A piece of time neatly snipped out.
A few feet of film run backwards.
The blast of the rocket, fallen faster than sound—then growing out of it the roar of its own fall, catching up to what’s already death and burning . . . a ghost in the sky. . . .

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from A Thousand Years of Sunlight, released April 1, 2015
The text to speech vocal on this track uses a quote from Thomas Pynchon 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity%27s_Rainbow

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