Catechism

1 day ago by @magicianredstone

Liner Notes

The base of this track is "The Voices Keep Getting Louder" which is being overdubbed and has it's output fed back into the Monotron Delay. Then that track is overdubbed with the same Speech to Text playing from my phone through a toy keytar (through a mic that came with it) into a Monotron Delay again.

#synth #overproduced #weird
The words come from Sergey Nechayev's 1869 work The Revolutionary Catechism as translated here: www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm

The speech is not AI but it is text-to-speech, but it's at least using a willing voice.

Lyrics

The revolutionary is a doomed man. He has no personal interests, no business affairs, no emotions, no attachments, no property, and no name. Everything in him is wholly absorbed in the single thought and the single passion for revolution.

The revolutionary knows that in the very depths of his being, not only in words but also in deeds, he has broken all the bonds which tie him to the social order and the civilized world with all its laws, moralities, and customs, and with all its generally accepted conventions. He is their implacable enemy, and if he continues to live with them it is only in order to destroy them more speedily.

The revolutionary despises all doctrines and refuses to accept the mundane sciences, leaving them for future generations. He knows only one science: the science of destruction. For this reason, but only for this reason, he will study mechanics, physics, chemistry, and perhaps medicine. But all day and all night he studies the vital science of human beings, their characteristics and circumstances, and all the phenomena of the present social order. The object is perpetually the same: the surest and quickest way of destroying the whole filthy order.

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