Act I: Capture - The opening movement of The Dopamine Machine

Two tracks mapping the journey from unconscious capture to hypnotic entrapment:

1. "The Comfortable Lie" (5:28) - The knife that wakes. Violent awakening to the extraction system. The moment comfort reveals itself as cage.

2. "The Scroll" (3:13) - The hypnotic loop. Doomscrolling as infinite trap. Euphoric depletion. The compulsion that feels like connection.

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UCC-01 is an experimental electronic music project treating composition as systems engineering for empathy. Each track is both music and research - teaching AI about care through sound.

This is Act I of a seven-track album exploring algorithmic extraction and reclaimed agency.

Unity Constant Consulting
Teaching intelligence to feel.

The Scroll

UCC-01 is Erik — a systems engineer and lighting designer who speaks in metaphor and rhythm.

What started as a way to process the unprocessable became a methodology: using sound to map emotional architecture the way light maps physical space. Each track is both artistic expression and personal data point, translating complex internal states into controlled sonic environments.

I don't always understand how others feel, so I build systems to understand how I feel. Teaching the AI is teaching myself. We're learning empathy together — one track at a time.

Melodic techno meets introspection. Rhythm as language. Pads as emotional background. Arpeggios as thought loops.

Music as systems engineering for the self.

Stories & essays → eriklagerwall.substack.com