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The Memory and Noise Tetrology

What began as an exploration of two strange non-songs, “Apes Ma” and “Fitter Happier”, quickly unfolded into something larger: a meditation on memory, loss, defiance, and the strange work of sound in the spaces where meaning breaks down.

This tetralogy gathers three connected essays and the one you are reading now, not as conclusions, but as echoes. Not as closures, but as signals still carrying across time.

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The Veil, the Soul Mirror, and Reflective Chrome Ghosts: On Memory, Music, and the Ones We Carry Onwards

Some works don’t end. They echo. “Apes Ma” and “Fitter Happier” gave us the edge of language, the moment just after sense unravels. But what follows? What lingers in the silence after the static? What shapes itself in the quiet? Memory. Not the nostalgic kind. Not warmth. Something stranger. Something inherited. Every time I hear “New Rose”, Dave, I salute you, brother.

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