"By the 2030s, serving a prison sentence had evolved into an exceptionally cruel and bizarre experience, though potently efficient and, somehow, well-respected. Gone were the days of sitting around idly, just trying not to get beaten up while waiting for your sentence to be over. No, you were incarcerated in a virtual penal education portal. Imagine a video game that felt, sounded, and looked like reality, but where you were made, with vivid, graphic detail, to relive your crime against humanity from the receiving end in shocking and deeply moving ways that could only be imagined. Then, you were forced to learn, at length, the gaps in your ignorance. Through the brutal autocracy of supply-side economics, private prisons devolved into skyscrapers full of tiny cells, barely wider than the wingspan of a large adult. Strapped into "the machine," as they called it, and plugged into "Convict University", your body and mind were constantly in motion, while in reality, you were in a perpetual state of aestivation. A highly engineered fungus was both part of your daily sustenance and your captor. It was forced through a tube, along with a nutrient-rich slurry awash in hypnotic drugs and antibiotics. This was such a cheaper and more effective form of incarceration and re-education that it swept the globe. Even so, some estimated that a full 3.8% of the planet's global energy output was consumed by these towers of torpor and the systems that re-learned all those who needed their thinking corrected. Curiously, these systems had originally been designed by the Russians for keeping mortal bodies working and minds sharp during deep space travel and were adapted to this disturbingly efficacious purpose upon that once-proud nation’s plunge into the depths of cruel, capitalistic oligarchy..."

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Towers Of Torper

Mirror
Lyrics by Jeff Ramen


because we live
because we die
because the stars
light up the sky

it’s not within
it’s not without
face to face
break through the doubt

because we live
because we die
because the summer
fireflies

its neither here
its neither there
empty rooms
there’s no one there

because we give
because we care
because its lost 
it’s always there

bright prisms
break the light
broken glass 
that splits the night

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Mirror

Keeping it sweet and simple. The staples of classic disco - drum machine, bass guitar, electric piano and string synth. Chill out and boogie on down.

Piano: Valente reed piano
Bass guitar: Höfner Ignition violin bass
Synth strings: Behringer Solina
Drums: Behringer RD-6 and Yamaha RX-21

Disco Valente

ATTENTION ! PLAY  THIS SONG IF YOU CANT GET TO SLEEP. IT WILL TAKE YOU TO THE LAND OF DREAMS

Somnarium

The unlikely discovery of the Cybernatian’s stealth vessel, Polanete ke Sekepe, as it streaks silently toward the Martian Biovatar slave factory, buried in the crowded, convoluted maze of cities that formed under the frigid Uncanny Valley of the Hellas quadrangle, meant that a hasty, improvised plan had to be implemented with the utmost urgency.

After a brief search a volunteer stepped forward from the potential lookalikes, Sensha Sobchak, with a little rouging up she could easily pass for Anastasia, the crashed ships captain. She would sacrifice her body by using her frozen corpse as a trojan horse to smuggle her computer brain onboard the Diplogen in a desperate attempt to sabotage and scuttle their ship, killing her and the miners who had the misfortune of stumbling onto their planet ship and the valuable deuterium ice layer that they used to fuel their very existence.

Taking one last look back down the pipeline tunnel toward the only home she had ever known before being ejected up to the surface, she inhales sharply with a quickening anticipation and blows out forcefully in one heavy heaving breath, this is the adventure she always dreamed about, there can be no turning back once the shaft to the crystal caves has been sealed.

After gracelessly spilling out of the temporary opening and with a few shallow hiccups, she slumps her bleeding, half naked body against the wall above where the shaft used to be and quickly feels the sleep of hypothermia soothe the searing pain as the tissue in her hands and feet burst with ice crystals. With any luck, they will be advanced enough to know how to power her Biovatar computer hardware, but not so advanced that they divinate her plan before she can stop them from alerting the universe of their Cybernatian army.

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Subterranean Cybernatians

A complex series of vacuum breaker discharge exits, diversionary gates, and ever-changing aqueous tunnels pump through the crust of the great moon, like the veins and arteries of a living being. Ships carry supplies like cells, and fusion reactors, like mitochondria, generate energy for the movement of a multitude of necessary things, all suspended within the swiftly throbbing liquid being sucked through the massive maze. 

Like bees in a hive, ants in a hill, like a series of circuits that release dopamine, this is the blood of a living mind, the mind of a moon. As a whole, this moon makes decisions and acts in its own self-interest, moving itself and other celestial bodies out of a naturally occurring gravitational dance toward objectives on the scale of eons. Pulling in resources from interplanetary space, this large moon gains heat and mass at an impressive pace. 

Lost between a WORM's tunneling spoil and the giant freighters, Hugh picks off the larger boulders with the fore rail gun, easily making his way toward the moon's cortex, the Oracle of the Is. The Oracle sees the big picture for the organism, and Hugh possessed the favorite thing that all oracles value: information that would improve the accuracy of future predictions, and he wasn't asking much in return for the confidence. The great sphere was poised like a cue ball before a split, almost sizzling with potential energy, and Hugh had both the chalk and the stick. A sure shot, so long as he didn't scratch.
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This was the opening live improvisational set from the week of 2-21-20 when Chris Decato came in for a landing on "In Synthesis with Infinite Is" bringing with him an Apple laptop running Main Stage software and a Nektar 88 controller. We rapped a bit about his decades of synthesis, played a few of his recordings and he even played a couple of tunes live, including a brand new composition. We also improvised a couple of groovy live sets. Keys were tickled, buttons were pressed, knobs were turned and much fun was had by all.

"In Synthesis with Infinite Is" was produced live in studio for 91.5 WOOL.fm community radio in Bellows falls Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks and could be heard every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm throughout the Upper Connecticut river valley at 91.5 fm. The show also streamed worldwide live at:

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Oracle Of The Is - In Synthesis With Infinite Is Feat Chris Decato 2 - 21 - 20 Closing Live Set

General Tovis aboard the finest warship ever conceived to that day, a frighteningly well armed tactical carrier called the HIVE, leads the first fateful launch into the infinite aether. A great ship needs deep waters, plunging the depths, you’ve got to carry fire in one hand and water in the other and don’t let the dead hand drop. The Buzzer buzzed and that narrow linear time crept forward, if you listen close you can hear the music between the bursts of radio modulation. This beacon carries with it a lofty flight of adventures, sideways into spacetime, into the soup of swirling suppositions. For the swarm may live as long as the Buzzer Buzzed, there was a way to go back, even if the closest you could ever come to again is an approximation, there was comfort in the memory. So much depended on that lonely signal, there was an enormous, carefully stacked string of scenarios that could end this one, insignificant branch of sapient souls in a ball of heat, plasma and poisonous fission products. There was no choice but to keep it going at all costs and Tovis built his army around that objective. He was the first great General to see the infinite possibilities of an intermultiverse spacetime traveling military. That signal would be the hill they die on when it failed deadly if need be and every Bot and soldier who volunteered took that sentiment to the grave, but they died free so long as the Buzzer buzzed.





Here is the opening live improv set from this the week of 3-13-20. Jeff and Evan explore some strange and unsettling soundscapes, the first improvisational live set being sufficiently ridiculous for nearly an hour. The Is then reviews a not so distant live recording called "Rover Automoton", we pass a few announcements, then the second improv instrumental synth set escalates into a frothing blossom of exquisite, expounding, pounding.

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The HIVE At 4625 Khz - In Synthesis With Infinite Is opening live set 3 - 13 - 20

Taken from the Glassworks 12' Vinyl release on BineMusic

Glassworks (Blue)

Hugh had to pay extra for the surface work suit on account of his unusual size, and waiting impatiently for the clerk to print it, he walked through the plan in his mind. His first stop would be the Oracle of the Is, you had better possess some pretty interesting information as payment, if you expected to rise to the top, like the cream of the crop. Hugh had that valuable inside information, and in no time at all, in his new suit, still warm from the printer, he set out into the orange glow of the streets of Dynahollow, looking for the notorium nodes that would lead the way through the crowded dusty streets to the Overlooker’s temple. He would need control of the city centers oldest mothballed power plants, Stationary Low Powered Experimental Reactor number one, affectionately known as “SLoPER 1” Unfortunately the surly Palos Hills meatbag he hired to pull out the control rods yanked a bit too hard, when the old machine stubbornly held one back due to corrosion, and 130 megawatt seconds would be instantaneously plowed into the Bionicorp mesh network, straight from the 100,000 kilowatt reactors switch yard. The 20 gigawatt excursion precipitated a steam pressure wave that blasted the the rod assemblies up with such great force, that one impaled him through his groin, exiting through his shoulder, pinning his steaming, bloody. body to the concrete ceiling 13 meters above. Hugh was hoping that his copies would then propagate across the planets population like a virus, but an overloaded preamplifier would send the instructions echoing from the Hershel crater antenna, through the entire murmuration. Freedom for the slaves that were the operating system of every Biovatar in the galaxy!

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Here is the opening set from this, the week of 4-17-20 on In Synthesis with Infinite Is Jeff and Evan take you on a magical, synthesized musical adventure with an epic opening live improvisational set with two movements. 

"In Synthesis with Infinite Is" was produced live for WOOL.fm Bellows falls Vermont by the members of the band Infinite Is, Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks and could be heard every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm throughout the Upper Connecticut river valley at 91.5 fm. The show also streamed worldwide live at:

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SLowPER 1

"Morton understood the implications of his reckless endeavor, but he knew he had to succeed. He was the first to learn that chickenbots had an easy to exploit vulnerability. They could be soothed and and reprogrammed, using their audio modem. Every now and then another one would show up, presumably looking for what happened to those who came before them. He would trap them, and encode his own costume program into them using a primitive computer, and a modified Buchla synthesizer. He had a whole flock of them that he kept behind a stockade fence, programmed to look and act like average 21st century chickens. Being a brilliant, bored, self aware Immortalite, he thus proceeded to copy himself into many different bodies across the globe, in an effort to evade total extermination, should the murderous murmuration ever catch him off guard, without his noisemaker. He kept one on his person at all times, which got easier as the primitive humans developed their technology, from tape, to compact disks, to hard drives, to handheld computer phones. If a chicken were to cross his path he would immediately begin the sequence. The chicken would stop in place and begin to sway, while holding it’s head perfectly still, entranced and under his spell. He could then disconnect it from the mumeration, and deconstruct it’s memory, quickly re configuring it in a matter of about a half hour, reducing it’s behavior to that of common livestock..."

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On this the week of 11-6-20 on In Synthesis with Infinite Is we begin the show with a somewhat windy and winding hour long live improv synthesizer set. Then we hear a few tunes sent in to the show by a Mr. Kenny Cobb, you can find more about him and more of his interesting music at his website: https://kennytunes.com/
Thanks for the submissions Kenny!

After a few area announcements you can join the Is for a strange half hour live set that devolves into cascading patches and old school computer noises, fun ear candy for hungry brains.

 You can find the playlist for this show at this link:
https://spinitron.com/m/playlist/view/11963774

"In Synthesis with Infinite Is" is produced live for 91.5 WOOL.fm Bellows falls Vermont by the members of the band "Infinite Is", Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks and can be heard every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm throughout the Upper Connecticut river valley at 91.5 fm. Please consider helping to keep this member owned, volunteer run community radio station on the air, you can become a member, underwriter, donate and buy sweet Black Sheep Radio swag at the station website where the show streams worldwide live at:

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Would you like to Come to the studio in Bellows Falls Vermont so that we can feature your music and improvise live synthesizer sets with us on the air?

 Please swing by our  website for contact info, pictures, track lists, links and sometimes video or even if you just want to say hi, we would love to hear from you!

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Livestocking Botnik

"If the stars fell from the sky, when would they fall and why? Aeneas Fish swirled her hands on the wet grass with her outstretched arms, as she laid, staring up, and out, into the brilliant dance of slowly drifting points of light. Somehow she could hear the silver moon singing to her, as it shimmered down on her from the cold, vast expanse. Was that just the wind in the reeds that had gripped her to this spot?  Out here, just off in the rough of the 17th hole, at the Tri-Par golf course, she hoped she would be safe. She hoped, out loud, by chanting just under her breath “I’m safe here, I’m safe here, I’m safe here…”. That morning she had witnessed a shocking, and bizarre murder, it was so strange, and horrific that she had been perpetually moving until this moment, trying to outpace those weird, cruel, murdering, dressed up chickens. Where did they all come from, with their shiny Mylar outfits? That awful morning, just about sunrise, while waiting at the bus stop, they had seemed to come from all directions. Poor, gentle, brilliant, Morton Sue Botnik, why on earth was he shredded up so savagely by that strange pack of weird looking chickens? The last thing he said to her, just before they appeared was, “be the change you want to see”, after he sympathized with her dismal outlook on the state of humanity. Oh the noise they made, it only took about 6 minuets for them to tear that poor man into shreds, of flesh, and bones. Carrying every last bit of him off in small pieces, they left nothing but a big red puddle of blood. Then as the last bird was departing, it spotted her across the street, when the suns leading edge peered out over the hill, bathing her fresh, apple shaped face in the golden morning light. She had been on the run ever since, it seemed like there was a chicken around every corner in town, and everyone thought she was crazy when she pleaded for help, ranting about blood thirsty chickens..."

You can download or stream this entire radio program free at our archive, here: https://archive.org/details/11-6-20-in-synthesis-with-infinite-is

On this the week of 11-6-20 on In Synthesis with Infinite Is we begin the show with a somewhat windy and winding hour long live improv synthesizer set. Then we hear a few tunes sent in to the show by a Mr. Kenny Cobb, you can find more about him and more of his interesting music at his website: https://kennytunes.com/
Thanks for the submissions Kenny!

After a few area announcements you can join the Is for a strange half hour live set that devolves into cascading patches and old school computer noises, fun ear candy for hungry brains.

 You can find the playlist for this show at this link:
https://spinitron.com/m/playlist/view/11963774

"In Synthesis with Infinite Is" is produced live for 91.5 WOOL.fm Bellows falls Vermont by the members of the band "Infinite Is", Jeff Ramen and Evan Parks and can be heard every Friday night from 8 to 10 pm throughout the Upper Connecticut river valley at 91.5 fm. Please consider helping to keep this member owned, volunteer run community radio station on the air, you can become a member, underwriter, donate and buy sweet Black Sheep Radio swag at the station website where the show streams worldwide live at:

http://blacksheepradio.org/WOOL/


Would you like to Come to the studio in Bellows Falls Vermont so that we can feature your music and improvise live synthesizer sets with us on the air?

 Please swing by our  website for contact info, pictures, track lists, links and sometimes video or even if you just want to say hi, we would love to hear from you!

http://infiniteis.org/

Somnarium

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