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Project; After the Event.

Log #47

23/11/09 AD2198

It's been three years now and I am still no closer to understanding artefact KRANK043 than I was when we first unearthed it. Having scrutinised the paper and the cardboard outer layer, handling them delicately with tweezers, any clue, any hint of what this might have represented before The Event has led to a dead end. Oftentimes it feels as though a cruel joke or as though the architects of this widely debated archaeological find are laughing from their graves as we try to reconstruct the message delivered in this thing of untameable power. The most recent of these was the lead which we followed when we made the connection between the band in the photograph inside and the Nazi Punk movement of the late 20th Century. Having sourced some of the music from this genre we could only conclude that the band pictured were most certainly not the band that we hear on these discs and furthermore, the words on their clothing look to have been superimposed, which only adds to the mystery as this could well be another statement being made to the people who lived before The Event. Perhaps a warning of some kind?

On the reverse of this photograph is a timeline which seems to describe the path of the music and assembled sounds. This has furthered our understanding of what the musicians were trying to achieve but, alas, has also opened up more avenues of thought amongst the professors studying this relic. There are moments in "Gathering Storm" where the mood does seem to create an image in the head of the listener of a gathering storm of heavy clouds which eventually breaks, but it is followed by an announcement issuing a warning against people not affiliated with Barco AM/PM; some thinkers are proposing that it was members of the Barco AM/PM cult who instigated the events leading up to The Event whilst others dismiss this as paranoid ramblings of clueless men, but argue instead that a black cloud of pollution did cover the earth during the early years of the 21st Century, and the fear that these musicians had was that it would break and their efforts to warn the planet of the dangers that they would face should it rain down on them were crystallized in the very dark and sombre mood which follows the moment when the storm breaks. But then the gathering of the storm sounds quite beautiful and the first drops of rain that we hear are very gentle.

So this part of the evidence can be frustrating to look into, particularly as the timescale seems to be incorrect in many instances and the numbers seem to be purposefully misleading as opposed to helpful or enlightening. But I have nowhere else to turn and I am running short on answers. I know that it remains imperative that I come to some conclusions as this has been a discovery which holds so much power and knowledge if we can only extract it. There is a chance that there is a warning hidden inside, a warning that might help us to avoid another event like The Event.

The only thing that I can be completely sure on is that this artefact can take me by the throat and drag me, sometimes against my will, through every aspect of the human condition; with it playing I can feel every emotion that our forefathers felt before The Event. Rather than just fear and hunger I can feel the human response to beauty; sometimes during what we have come to call "World Police and Friendly Fire" every hair on my body pricks up on end and I feel for a moment the electricity and the rush of absolute terror, a memory I have from my early childhood just before The Event. There is elation and thrilling excitement for a brief moment and the disappointment when it is snatched away as quickly as it was given some time during the indeterminable section we are guessing is called "She Dreamt She Was a Bulldozer". Sometimes I think that all of my research is in vain, that no single interpretation is ever going to be enough. I have tried without success to convince the head of the research team to allow me to release this to all of the survivors in the hope that collectively we can all understand it, and that it can enhance their lives as it has mine and the other members of the research team.

There continue to be mysteries to unfold but I personally feel that I cannot unfold them alone; there is something very human about this and it is as hard to unlock the complex workings of our brain as it is to unlock the message which this music is undoubtedly delivering. But as we enjoy the company of others, and often for reasons that are completely unknown to us, so too could we all benefit from regular exposure to artefact KRANK043. Healing the wounds following The Event could maybe be sped up tenfold or more with a glimpse at what once made us great as a race, without all of the things that brought about our downfall.

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