EVIDENCE

THE RECORD / NOT THE VERDICT

Evidence is used here to establish provenance and limit claims. It is not presented as proof of a supernatural explanation. A record can show that an event, file, statement or publication exists without establishing what caused it.

WHAT SURVIVES

Dated posts, SoundCloud publication records, messages, screenshots, photographs, source texts, project files and later conversation exports can all contribute to reconstruction. None automatically proves the interpretation attached to it.

EVIDENCE HIERARCHY

• A — CONTEMPORARY RECORD: original files, dated posts, messages, project files.
• B — NEAR-CONTEMPORANEOUS: records made close to the event.
• C — LATER RECOLLECTION: memory reconstructed after the fact.
• D — INTERPRETATION: meaning assigned later.
• E — AI-GENERATED: machine interpretation or transformation.

THE PROVENANCE PROBLEM

Where did an idea actually come from? A project file, dated post, memory, later description or AI conversation may show when an idea was recorded, but not necessarily when it originated. The archive therefore distinguishes first surviving appearance from claimed origin.

ASYDO LEMEM

Surviving project material is labelled 2013. Artist testimony says it was deliberately titled Asydo Lemem because it encoded “same melody” in rearranged lettering, beginning with the A. Later AI discussion is evidence of later articulation, not proof of original intent.

INQ + ADJ / STATE + PENDING

The original title referred to Ian’s brother Ben. In 2016 the track was renamed State + Pending while material was being added and renamed for Substrate Unknown, formerly Beyond The Body Computer. A later record gives 13 March 2019 for an upload under the form INQ£ADJ; the exact naming state at that upload remains under reconstruction.

AGAPISM

Surviving project material includes Republic, internally dated 2012. Artist testimony says Agapism was the later name and may relate to an idea of an agapistic society. The exact conceptual timing remains partly unresolved.

SILICON MIRROR

The phrase appears in the surviving ChatGPT archaeology as a later-developed concept. It should not be projected backwards into the 2011–13 material without evidence.

THE THE LIVING ARCHIVE

The surviving publication chronology shows a concentrated January 2013 run of 20 tracks, followed by 3 more in March. This does not prove that the three later-published tracks were created later. The recollection is 23 tracks in 23 consecutive days, with failure on day 24. Creation chronology remains under reconstruction.

UNFOLD THE VOID

BEFORE: an intention to attempt a UFO/soul manifestation was specified. DURING: several people synchronised online listening at 11:11pm GMT on 15 March 2013, with the intended point at 4:32. AFTER: Ian reports seeing two red orbs above Newcastle Cathedral. Ian was the sole physical witness to the orbs; online listeners did not see them.

What the orbs were, and whether they had any relation to the listening experiment, remains unresolved.

EXTERNAL SOURCES

External material should be read as source → what it says → possible connection → limitations. The source itself remains distinct from the project’s interpretation of it.

AI ARCHAEOLOGY

Later ChatGPT conversations are evidence of what was discussed later, not automatic evidence of what existed in 2011–13. They also contain factual errors and invented connections. Those errors belong in the archive because they demonstrate how easily a coherent narrative can be manufactured.

WHAT WOULD CHANGE THE ARCHIVE?

• Original 2011–13 project files
• Contemporaneous Facebook posts and messages
• Original audio recordings or photographs
• Participant communications
• Earlier versions of track names
• Original upload metadata

New evidence should change the reconstruction where it warrants it. The archive is not a verdict; it is a reconstruction under revision.