13. Deep Time

[Wildfire]

So I just found something, might be something, might be nothing but as soon as I heard it I just thought "No way, this is what they used for the 'harp' in Deep Time."

I was sure it was a koto initially as it has more of a 'twang' than a harp does, but then I heard this at 41m in Zabriskie Point, a young kid sitting plucking the strings of a demolished, abandoned piano as it lies on the ground. It gave me Deep Time vibes instantly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz5qwASzFRo

Given their love for the film, I wonder if this was the inspiration.

[Redd Panderson]

Huh, this popped up on my feed. They are opening a trail in Scotland this year called The Deep Time Trail:

"Walk the Scottish coast that changed science": https://share.google/4IdYN3Ao6GoxnUPNo

From the article:

I am standing on the grassy cliffs above Siccar Point, a rocky outcrop on Scotland's east coast, looking out over the steel blue of the North Sea from the final viewpoint of the new Deep Time Trail. This gentle one-hour return walk leads to the site of one of the most important discoveries in scientific history – a place that transformed our understanding of Earth.

The route has been created to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of James Hutton, the founding father of geology, who was born in nearby Edinburgh in 1726. Long before Hutton set eyes on Siccar Point in 1788, he developed his radical theory that the Earth's surface was formed by cycles of erosion and renewal. But it was this rock formation – known as Hutton's Unconformity – that provided the evidence he needed to convince the world.

At Siccar Point, ancient rock standing upright are capped by much younger, horizontal layers of sandstone, revealing a vast gap in Earth's history that couldn't be explained by 18th-Century ideas. This immense span of geological time is now known as "deep time" – the concept at the heart of the new trail.

I guess this James Hutton is credited with being the first to develop and find evidence for the idea of "deep time." It's interesting the trail is opening the same year Inferno came out. I wonder if BOC was similarly commemorating this Scottish scientist.

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Huh, this popped up on my feed. They are opening a trail in Scotland this year called The Deep Time Trail:

"Walk the Scottish coast that changed science": https://share.google/4IdYN3Ao6GoxnUPNo

From the article:

I am standing on the grassy cliffs above Siccar Point, a rocky outcrop on Scotland's east coast, looking out over the steel blue of the North Sea from the final viewpoint of the new Deep Time Trail. This gentle one-hour return walk leads to the site of one of the most important discoveries in scientific history – a place that transformed our understanding of Earth.

The route has been created to mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of James Hutton, the founding father of geology, who was born in nearby Edinburgh in 1726. Long before Hutton set eyes on Siccar Point in 1788, he developed his radical theory that the Earth's surface was formed by cycles of erosion and renewal. But it was this rock formation – known as Hutton's Unconformity – that provided the evidence he needed to convince the world.

At Siccar Point, ancient rock standing upright are capped by much younger, horizontal layers of sandstone, revealing a vast gap in Earth's history that couldn't be explained by 18th-Century ideas. This immense span of geological time is now known as "deep time" – the concept at the heart of the new trail.

I guess this James Hutton is credited with being the first to develop and find evidence for the idea of "deep time." It's interesting the trail is opening the same year Inferno came out. I wonder if BOC was similarly commemorating this Scottish scientist.

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[Wildfire]

I guess this James Hutton is credited with being the first to develop and find evidence for the idea of "deep time." It's interesting the trail is opening the same year Inferno came out. I wonder if BOC was similarly commemorating this Scottish scientist.

This is amazing, and could well be bang on the money.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_time

I highly recommend the book Huttons Arse, all about the geology of North West Scotland and the Torridonian sandstone (which gives the sand at Red Point it's red colour btw).

[fujee]

This track is possibly the best on the entire album.

[Wildfire]

This track is possibly the best on the entire album.

I agree, I love it all but as soon as Deep Time comes on I have a visceral reaction that is unlike what any of the other tracks do to me. I'd still love to know why it was called Tape05 initially though.

[747Music]

This track is possibly the best on the entire album.

I agree, I love it all but as soon as Deep Time comes on I have a visceral reaction that is unlike what any of the other tracks do to me. I'd still love to know why it was called Tape05 initially though.

Tape05 may just be a placeholder name that was the name of the tape they pulled the render from. Throughout the whole album I hear sounds that were likely achieved through recording the audio to VHS tapes, to some degree, for effects. When I was experimenting with tapes, I would end up with audio recording filenames like that all the time.

I like the relationship between the track titles Deep Time with I See Through Platonia.
Deep Time feels like a brewing awareness of time beyond our own short lifespans.
I See Through Platonia feels like saying, "I'm fully aware of the implications of the content of this album, even through the greatest possible reach of what deep time could be. What is in this album is a reflection of that awareness and is my unchanging statement. I am satisfied with the conclusions I've drawn and have accepted my fate. Listen, because you can hear it in the very heart of me."

I really think this album is a tremendously personal statement. See my recent post in The Process thread for a little more on that here: https://www.twoism.org/forum/viewtopic.php?p=338040#p338040