[Instrumental Intro] [Isolated sub pulse, distant room tone, faint tape hiss] [Spoken] Now, listen carefully. Not to the melody. To the space underneath it. Today's demonstration is about expectation. We are not studying what you hear. We are studying what your mind supplies. [Pause] [Sub pulse stops] [Spoken, dry and close] You may already be filling in the silence. [Tape click] [Instrumental Movement] [Slow hollow bass phrases answer one another; sparse broken percussion enters gradually] [Spoken] Interesting. Let's hear that again. A little slower this time. [Recording slows and cuts] [Instrumental Movement] [Stretched bass responses; long silences; percussion grows intricate and rapid] [Spoken] You're beginning to anticipate it. That little silence— you expected something there, didn't you? [Isolated bass phrase; final note absent] [Silence] And when it didn't arrive… did you supply it? [Brief echo ad-lib: supply it] That's the curious thing about this demonstration. It becomes rather difficult to tell which part we played… and which part you supplied. [Tape cuts] [Instrumental Development] [The familiar bass phrase returns with its final note missing; another voice answers; intricate rhythmic switches and granular bursts] [Spoken, composed] Now… has the pattern changed? [Pause] Or have you? [Tape snaps off] [Instrumental Development] [Earlier bass voices return in unfamiliar rhythms; rapid percussion circles the slow sub foundation] [Breakdown] [Percussion disappears; solitary sub pulse and distant fragments] [Tape hiss rises] [Spoken, intimate and matter-of-fact] Of course, I could describe what comes next. But that would rather spoil it. [Silence] We've observed your response. [Complete stop] [Spoken, dry and faintly amused] Now… let's see what happens when it answers back. [Recording cuts] [Final Climax] [Transformed interlocking bass motifs, enormous slow wubs beneath intricate rapid broken percussion, granular bursts, dramatic pauses and sudden returns; extended instrumental] [Outro] [Percussion falls away; opening sub pulse returns] [Spoken, distant archival recording] That concludes the demonstration. You may find… the silence sounds different now. [One final deep bending wub] [Hard cut to silence]
