Виниловая пластинка Discovery Zone - Library Copy Do Not Remove [New Vinyl LP] Colored Vinyl, Purple

Genre: Electronic

Release Year: 2026

Tracks:

1. Big Bang
2. Dusk
3. Library Copy Do Not Remove
4. Habitat
5. Arp Angels
6. Castle in the Moon

In Library Copy Do Not Remove, Discovery Zone's
JJ Weihl presents a digital enchantment of reality,
braiding together the material and non-material to
reveal that they are, in fact, two aspects of one and the
same thing. In Weihl's world, Nature and technology
are not enemies, but instead create each other in an
infinite dance of meaning and reflection.
Originally created in spatial sound for the Zeiss-
Groß Planetarium in Berlin, Library Copy Do Not
Remove is a creation mythology for the simulated
universe. However, this is not some dry, Bostromian,
masculine fantasy of a digital reality devoid of nature's
mysteries. Instead, Weihl insists that the listener allow
space for the awesome reality of the natural world
within the framework of a simulation. If our world is
simulated, then the simulation has to be capable of
creating the beauty and splendor of Nature. In this way,
Weihl engages an ambient alchemy, calling for a grand
reconciliation of Nature and the technological, while
asking us to consider how and where the experience
of transcendent human consciousness might exist
between them.
Written while Weihl was simultaneously completing
her sophomore album Quantum Web, the songs on
Library Copy Do Not Remove reflect an expansive,
inspirational state of both excitement and anxiety at the
task of composing music for such a unique space. The
songs themselves were shaped through Ambisonics,
a specific format of spatial audio that is directional
instead of being channel-based (like stereo), and were
transmitted through a mosaic of 49 speakers. Because
it was written for live performance, Library Copy Do
Not Remove was never conceived as an album per se,
but instead as a three-dimensional event. In this way
the sonic staging mirrored how we perceive sound in
our everyday lives: surrounding us from all directions.
For this album release, Weihl mixed all of the songs
again from the ground up with long time producer E/T,
reimagining and reworking the constellation of tracks
for a stereo experience.
Inspired by the work of James Gleick, LD Deutsch,
Johannes Kepler and Jorges Luis Borges, Library
Copy Do Not Remove explores the creative tension
between reality and perception, information and
mythology, harmony and disorder. Throughout the
album, Weihl asks how we as humans come to
understand the universe around us and the underlying
code which animates it. What emerges is a sonic
mythos that tells of spiraling digital universes, each
nested within each other, in which every participatory
agent is both a part, and the whole, of reality, at once.
In this way, Library Copy Do Not Remove is a cyber-
expression of perennial wisdom: instead of "as above,
so below," Weihl might suggest, "as with input, so
with output."