1992
THE NAME
A later Facebook record says that while working on a dissertation about virtual reality as a tool for entering the worlds of psychotic people, the term “Silicon Psychosis” imprinted on Ian’s brain.
SILICON PSYCHOSIS
CHRONOLOGY
THE CHRONOLOGY
ARCHIVE MARK
THE CHRONOLOGY
A timeline of the surviving records surrounding Lights Arise and Silicon Psychosis.
1992ORIGIN / MEMORY
c. 1990–92
EXODUS / MIND SHIP MAN
The artist links the early electronic-music period, Psychic TV, Exodus raves and LSD experiences with the later history of Mind Ship Man.
c. 2007–2012CREATION / MEMORY
c. 2007
PROBE 1 / GLUMINILUMNI
Two surviving tracks are remembered as important creative markers. Their exact creation dates remain approximate. Both tracks still exist, residing in Ark Hives ⇔ Earth, awaiting ‘decontamination’.
LATE 2012
THE UAE MATERIAL
Later track notes connect Cat Stalking and Crabs, Sheep and Other Beautiful Things to experiences in the Emirates.
JAN–APR 2013CREATION / DISCOVERY
JAN–MAR
THE TRANSMISSIONS
The surviving SoundCloud trail establishes when much of the material became public, but not necessarily the creation order.
APRIL
THE SEQUENCE
April posts show the 23 tracks being rearranged, interpreted as a story, and discussed as possible transmissions or signals. More than one order survives.
APRIL
UNFOLD THE VOID
The track becomes an experiment rather than only a composition: listening is given an intended function, and a UFO manifestation is attempted.
16 MAY–JUNE 2013THE LABORATORY
16 MAY
THE EXPERIENCE
After synchronised listening to Unfold the Void, Ian reports a genuine UFO experience and says the event changes his beliefs about UFOs, Greys and human transcendence.
17 MAY
SANDMAN / GREYS
Popular-culture examples of the Sandman are compared with Grey phenomena as part of a theory about the transcendent other and the ego.
19 MAY → 6 JUN
PALMER / THE CENTRE OF BEING
Lucy Palmer says she met Ian via Lynda Richardson on 19 May. On 6 June she publishes her account of the “Centre of Being” experience.
21 MAY → 3 JUN
LISTENING EXPERIMENTS
Synchronised experiments produce participant reports, including the 3 June account of visual imagery, bodily sensations, memories, religious imagery and sleep.
3 JUN
JAMIE GOSLING / SUBSTRATA
Jamie Gosling shared artwork that became an important visual influence on the later Substrata artwork.
9–10 JUN
AUDIO → VISUAL / DREAMING
The methodology expands into drawing, questions about geometric pattern perception and lucid dreaming.
20 JUN
INTERNET MONITORING / COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUSNESS
A post asks whether government monitoring of electronic communication might amount to mapping an emerging collective consciousness.
JUL–OCT 2013THEORY / RESPONSE
17 JUL
SOUND AS PHYSICAL FORCE
Research into Swiss experiments using sound waves to manipulate floating objects enters the sound-experiment context.
SEP
THE THEORY
The UFO/Grey/collective-consciousness framework is assembled into a longer theoretical background for the sound experiments. This records the 2013 theory, not a present-day conclusion.
OCT
LISTENER RESPONSE
A later listener describes an intense response to Physician Magician involving bodily sensation, power, love, peace and connection.
2014–2016MATERIAL / REASSESSMENT
2014
EARTH MISSION / STUDIO
Track provenance, new equipment, circuit-bending plans and a studio turn the experiment toward physical tools and music production.
25 OCT 2016
SOUNDS FROM THE MOTHERSHIP
A later project explicitly draws on the earlier UFO-through-sound research while acknowledging the aim of avoiding another personal psychotic episode.
2017–2019ARCHAEOLOGY / RECOMBINATION
2017
DREAM MAN / SANDMAN RESEARCH
Childhood material is revisited through cultural and historical research, including the Sandman tradition.
17 MAY
THERE ARE NO MEMORIES IN THE MOMENT
A production note records the construction of the opening from later material slowed and repitched.
29–30 MAY
UNFOLD THE VOID / WORLD-SOUL RESEARCH
2018 posts place Unfold the Void alongside Terence McKenna and Patrick Harpur, returning to earlier questions of transcendence, UFOs, collective consciousness and the World-Soul.
19 MAY
CHRYSALIS UNFOLDING
An artwork image is posted as part of the later visual history of the project.
21 JUN
CRABS, SHEEP AND OTHER BEAUTIFUL THINGS
A later post records the UAE inspiration and the decision to synthesise rather than sample the animal-like sounds.
2016 / 13 MAR 2019
INQ + ADJ / STATE + PENDING / INQ£ADJ
The naming history runs from Inq + Adj to State + Pending and later INQ£ADJ. The relationship between the rename and upload record remains under reconstruction.
2025–2026RECONSTRUCTION
2025
LIGHTS ARISE
The wider body is gathered into a 24-track release and becomes the current focus of the archive.
Dates are reconstructed from surviving records and recollection.
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