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Shredded Panorama

He nodded.
This is why you guys had to come here
to watch some fragments of the tapes.
We clipped them
we were going to see one hundred and seventy-four minutes
of the material that had been shredded.
That’s what we enhanced,
taped together to form a panorama.
The muddy tape had weighed one hundred and thirty-five pounds.
It’s shot from inside the machine
Of course,
when viewed from inside the machine,
the yellow markers lose resolution.

Of the ninety-five dots on the screen,
sixty were green, the rest were red
and strips of green-and-red neon lights
flashed in a tight grid sodden with water.

She examined the murky images
and sighed as she picked up one of the metal strips
out of a lever on a geared mechanism made up of little dots.
The resolution was too poor
to give us a coherent swirl
of ten thousand pixels.

She watched the knots of dark curly hair
attached to the large wheel
that carried the strip of metal.

Look, this one has a whole string of markings,
but the one that was on the bottom
only has a thin film of loose dust on it.
When we blow up the images on the tape,
they get blurry.
Now those things have vanished into the oily water.

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from The Pre​-​War Noise Encryption Standard, released February 3, 2023
Words and music by Ngel Ayers

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Nocturnal Emissions' Nigel Ayers has continued to work with a strong underground of cult support, avoiding music industry fashions, and following his own creative path he concentrated on creating a strong sense of a wilderness identity through sound.

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