Mimetics from Observation Gentle by Vireme

When test subjects are placed across from one another in the Loamfold Mimetics Ward, they're instructed to replicate each other's smallest movements until individual identity dissolves. We recreated this clinical ritual by setting up two pianos facing each other in the observation chamber, their innards prepared with paperclips and medical gauze.

The repeating piano figures aren't just musical patterns—they're behavioral algorithms from actual subject transcripts we found filed away in cabinet R-7. Each phrase echoes its predecessor with slight degradation, just as patients would eventually introduce "errors" into their mimicry. The gentle syncopation maps the increasing anxiety of participants realizing they're becoming less themselves with each repetition.

During recording, we noticed something unsettling. After seventeen continuous takes, Eliza and Mirek began playing identical patterns without planning it—their fingers moving in perfect symmetry. They couldn't explain afterward how they'd synchronized so completely. We kept that take.

The medical device chirps sampled throughout come from actual EEG monitors we salvaged from the basement lab. They seem to pulse in time with the piano canon, though we never programmed them to do so. The Graders insisted on documenting this unexplained synchronicity in the official ledgers.

That singular, clear melody in the outro represents what the facility staff called "the breakthrough moment"—when subjects would suddenly snap back into autonomous movement after hours of mirroring. It's the only unprocessed sound on the entire album—a brief window of clarity before the tests would inevitably resume.

We scavenge the frequencies others discard. Broken equipment, mechanical failure, industrial decay—these are our instruments. Prepare for sonic trespass as we transmit from the abandoned Loamfold Facility. No melodies, only disruption.