Simulacrum (2024) by Cairnem
"Simulacrum could be considered my COVID album, marking my first full-length release in eight years. I began working on it during the first lockdown in 2020, while isolated in my flat and working remotely full-time. This solitude and isolation significantly influenced the album's sound.
Around this time, I also discovered the work of Jean Baudrillard and became fascinated by his concept of simulacra. The term simulacrum refers to a copy, imitation, image, or representation that loses its connection to the original (or real) and becomes its own distinct entity.
This idea led me to think about simulacra in our everyday lives - how our social media accounts have become, or are becoming, simulacra of real human beings - of us. These profiles are curated, perfected, and cherry-picked to the point where the connection between the actual person and their online persona becomes so faint it's practically non-existent. People often filter, adjust, photoshop and even mangle themselves into what they perceive as "perfection", but in the process, they often end up looking like a completely different person and losing all authenticity. They create an illusory, idealized version of themselves, highlighted by snapshots of a "perfect life" they don't actually have.
This has become so common that it's unsettling, and it's evident that it negatively affects everyone involved. Yet we now live in a world where not having social media is becoming increasingly inconvenient.
Where could this lead from a more sci-fi, futuristic, dystopian perspective? Is this the behavior that will eventually lead us to create avatars to replace our imperfect selves once the technology allows it? Who knows. It is what it is, but it’s an intriguing topic to think about - and Simulacrum is such a cool word that it simply had to become the album's title :)."
written and produced by Martin Mohyla
2020-2024
https://cairnem.bandcamp.com
Tracklist
| 1. | Simulacrum | 8:03 |
| 2. | Anhedoniac | 3:03 |
| 3. | Beyond Repair | 3:54 |
| 4. | 52 Hz Whale | 5:18 |
| 5. | Ketamine Dreams | 8:41 |
| 6. | Shedding The Layers | 3:51 |
Credits
License
CC BY-NC 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
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