denim and diamonds

interviewed by Uter

Which do you prefer, denim or diamonds?

The kind of denim that is found naturally.

What instrument would you most like to be?

ECM Scrambler: This implant improves your radio or audio splice with a scrambler, so it cannot be listened into. It makes all radio or audio-splice communications private, unless the the interceptor has a descrambler unit and a lot of time on their hands.

Which members of the band are fire and ice and who is the lukewarm water in between?

The computer has more personality than all of us combined.

Have you ever written a spherical song?

Only when using the tritone effect developed by Roger N. Shepard. These tones were crafted by Shepard to eliminate all relative pitch discrimination information. As a result, when played in sequence, each tone sounds higher than all tones preceding it and lower than all tones following it (and vice versa when the sequence is played in the opposite order). Since there are only twelve tones in the sequence, played in a continuous loop, every tone sounds both higher and lower than every other at some point in the sequence.

Are you going to Scarborough Fair?

Scarborough Fair is machinelike and inhuman the AI has never seen reason to develop a human persona: what humanlike qualities it possesses are done only as a way of dealing with its irrational masters.

What effects does your locality have on your music and lifestyle?

We jump from Night City to New York from there we can easily jump to London. If we are going to be making a legal long distance jump, going to New York is no problem.

How hard is it to be an American these days?

After the nuclear holocaust, the ability to play the stock market, engage in routine stock transactions, and manipulate stocks profitably soars.

Name 5 things of great importance to you.

1) Pain-Editors
2) CoProcessors or "Add-Ons"
3) Interface Plugs
4) Kirama LPD-12 CyberDeck
5) enough credits to sustain a practical lifestyle

What topics of argumentative debate do you find yourself getting involved in most frequently?

Who gets to to be the first to play the digital chip reader.

Why did you agree to be involved in this recording project?

We had no choice; we were hardwired to do so.

Tell us about Conglomco

Conglomco provides scientific, technical and personal data pertaining
to any subject to any one who can afford to pay for it. Conglomco keeps
tabs on the world by any means possible.

Where oh where has my little dog gone?

Nope.