Traveller's Tales by Ucholak
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"All he has seen through the windows of his spaceship,
strange places he visited,
living species he met,
unbelievable events he witnessed,
dreams he dreamt,
memories that haunted him,
loneliness he felt...
...it all is here."
In the distant past, when interstellar travels began and humans knew literally nothing about the outer universe, travellers visiting other worlds obviously went through a lot of one of a kind experiences. There was need to capture all of it in the best and most comprehensive way possible. Therefore, thanks to advanced neurotechnological science at the time (very simple and obsolete today) "capsules" were inserted into the brains of astronauts to provide a "travel report" after the crew returned to Earth. Tens, hundreds and even thousands years later. Of course, most of the time found dead and stored in cryo chambers.
Data contained in capsules were, when successfuly retrieved, invaluable for scientists preparing space travels. Especially considering the unprecedented diversity of environments visited and phenomena experienced.
The capsule was a little neural container, a neurotechnological device connected to a brain by artificial synapses. All that brain captured or created during a travel - impressions, experiences, interactions, feelings or thoughts - all had been encoded to a digital file providing a complex report of the journey. It would be decoded later to its initial parts and "played back" and the scientist would see, hear, feel, experience all the traveller did.
Many of such retrievals, however, went wrong resulting in a damage of the report files.
If a brain of a subject was not alive anymore, was not stored properly, or the capsule was disconnected violently or not according to a certain and a very delicate procedure, data could not be decoded fully or at all. In most cases, all that researchers were able to retrieve were conglomerates of waves and frequencies in a kind of a digital imprint - a mere reflection of what was originally stored.
Such travel report could be decoded only in a form of a spectral, often an audio collage - a very desultory and almost metaphorical way
missing all the exact data. A bizzare mixture of what was experienced, imagined, or even dreamed ba a brain - all glued together in a single file.
For improving our knowledge, this was completely unusable.
Unable to distinguish what was actually experienced and what only imagined, these incomplete reports are now known as "Traveller´s Tales".
Credits
Written, performed, recorded and mastered by Martin Huba between March 2021 and May 2022. Cover art by Martin Huba.
