THE RECOLLECTION
The remembered account is: twenty-three tracks in twenty-three days, one track completed each day. The challenge therefore concerns twenty-three tracks. Unfold The Void is the twenty-fourth track and belongs to the later experimental phase.
THE SURVIVING PUBLIC TRAIL
SoundCloud records show a dense run of publications from 8 January to 28 January 2013, followed by further publications on 8 March, 27 March and 28 March. Unfold The Void appeared later, on 17 May 2013.
THE SOUND CLOUD RECORD
The surviving publication data shows a concentrated January run containing twenty of the Lights Arise recordings. Three additional tracks — Cerebral Parsley, The Machine Elves and Asydo Lemem — appear later, on 8 March, 27 March and 28 March 2013. This establishes a publication gap, not necessarily a creation gap.
THE TWO RECORDS
RECOLLECTION
Twenty-three tracks in twenty-three days. This describes the remembered creation challenge.
SOUNDCLOUD
Twenty tracks published in the January run, then three more several months later. This describes public availability, not necessarily creation.
WHAT WOULD RESOLVE IT?
Contemporaneous Facebook posts, original project files, DAW session dates, rendered audio files, hard-drive timestamps, backups and early conversations may establish when tracks were actually created and when the sequence first became an idea. Upload dates alone cannot answer that question.
WHY THIS MATTERS
The discrepancy is not merely numerical. If the three later-publicised tracks were actually created during the original 23-day challenge, the SoundCloud gap is only a publication-history detail. If they were created later, it may mark a genuine change in the creative process. At present, the evidence cannot honestly distinguish those possibilities.
Creation chronology remains the question.