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My Father and the Nature of the Universe

from Combinatorics by Mad Kate | the Tide

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in loving memory of Klaus Günther Fischer

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To understand my father is like to understand the universe. When he is dead, he will still be the gas that his bones were, the matter of his body will still occupy a place, like the matter of his body must have occupied a space before he was born, but this matter came from inside the matter of his parents. In this perspective, we are all like Russian dolls: the universe is infinitely large to enclose all of our matter, past and future, inside each other and it all already exists. The future already exists inside of all of us and in some sense our “deaths” already exist inside of us as well. It is as though our lives are like black holes, a kind of curve in our own space time, in this curve, we experience consciousness, we exhibit some kind of feeling of time endlessness, we observe something of the rest of the continuum, but before us and after us we exist but without boundary.

There on the horizon we are endless, we observe -- We are all things at one time; we are insignificant, and we are profound. Our time is endless; it is finite; our time is everything inbetween. We live as an asymptote, never nothing—approaching zero, we feel the weight of our smallness. And yet, how massive. We are multiple. These numbers are … illusion …

Endless.
we observe ...
The Continuum
I am spinning in circles ...
Of my own black hole
I create in space time
There on the horizon it is endless ...

(sung)
Keep him in, keep him to the place keep him too late, keep him to the way we are--there--
Like ...
Like an instance borrowed from your fine-bounded space
Keep him in that way
So like a star shines
Endless upon your horizon we fall
Infinite
vacant and round
Keep him to your horizon
Ah naked before your
Golden span

Spinning in circles …
But one thing I can say
Is all the progress we've made
Til we open
Ah naked before your –

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from Combinatorics, released April 3, 2013

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Mad Kate | the Tide Berlin, Germany

Mad Kate (vocals text movement) and the Tide (guitar loops electronics) collaborate in a perpetual adventure pet that touches the multiplying ways we access music and performance. From electro-folk to Afro-noise to punk-word, they speak with an urgent voice as they explore the concept of ALIVE:ness. ... more

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