ASYDO LEMEM
ASYDO LEMEM
Asydo Lemem is a track that became connected with an idea about the same melody.
I remember wondering whether all of the tracks might somehow contain the same melody, and Asydo Lemem came to be understood as a rearranged encoding of “same melody”.
This idea connected with something much older: an extraordinary experience at an Exodus rave where I felt that music was emerging inside my mind and somehow becoming shared by everyone around me.
Much later, the idea returned through the music I was making. From there came the possibility that sound might be holographic — that a shared musical experience could somehow synchronise people.
Whether Asydo Lemem actually contains a “same melody”, whether synchronised listening is possible in the way I imagined, and what the original experience represented remain open questions.
SAME MELODY?
During the 23 Day Challenge I was in a strange state of mind, and I began to worry that the tracks I was uploading might somehow all be repeating the same melody without me realising it.
The thought confused me. I could hear differences between the tracks, yet I was becoming increasingly preoccupied with the possibility that something underneath them was repeating itself.
At the same time, I was developing the idea of synchronised listening — that people listening to the same sounds together might somehow share or synchronise an experience.
I began to wonder whether the two ideas were becoming mixed together in my mind. Was I discovering something genuinely present in the music, or was I becoming paranoid and seeing a connection because I was already thinking about synchronisation?
I remember this uncertainty as part of the experience itself. Asydo Lemem was subsequently understood as a rearranged-lettering way of encoding “same melody”, beginning with the A. It was never actually titled Same Melody.
What I cannot now establish is whether the “same melody” idea arose from something I was genuinely hearing in the music, from the state of mind I was in, or from the growing narrative I was constructing around the tracks.
THE QUESTION
Could different people, listening to the same music at the same time, experience something sufficiently similar to create a form of synchronisation?
THE RECORD
Asydo Lemem · Object 019 · artist testimony · later interpretation · surviving recording.