SOLARCORE is a state of mind, a genre, a broad set of brainwaves from our various collaborators.
Here you find some of the works:
Biocomputer
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I may seem a little bit mute
But I just don’t know… how to compute
I am a biocomputer
I’m not robotic or neuter
I’d like to communicate in the future
With a cuter biocomputer
Basic metaprograms of existence:
Body operations automatic
Information overload is experienced
Signals dissolving in the static
Other beings can be contacted
If useless programs don’t interfere
Error, error! Problem is detected:
Failure to interlock because of fear (1)
I am a biocomputer
I’m not robotic or neuter
Let’s communicate in the future, you
You cuter biocomputer
Energy, Energy
Solar powerWind power
Will Power
Energy, energy
Limitless energy (2)
Lawless energy
Energy Energy
Transition
Transmission
Translucent
Supervision
Technocratic dreams
Easy as it seems
We are desiring machines (3)
Solar power
Wind power
Will to power*
* Chanted by the entire solar cult
The Secret of the Dolphin
(with Omninaut)
We inhabit(with Omninaut)
A fata morgana:
Sarabande
Through our simulacra
I will teach you
Some abracadabra,
The secret of the dolphin:
Time to get away now (4)
Let us go away soon
Let us leave our safe cocoon
Escaping is better than imprisonment (5)
Escaping is better than imprisonment (aaah)
We orbit, we obey
Much unlike Sinatra
We smile at the magic mirror
Aquatic automata
I will teach you
Some abracadabra,
The secret of the dolphin:
Time to splatter the patterns
Let us go away soon
Let us leave our safe cocoon
Escaping is better than imprisonment
I wanna feel your blue lagoon
Solaristics (6)
The ocean reflectsDeep, deep, deep
Silver thoughts
Dark, dark
Coral brain
The shells dance
The star melts
The ocean reflects
Old, old, old
Lost desires
Cold, cold
Spire caverns
The ocean reflects
Exorcise
Improve your mindYour body type
The cure is clear, exorcise
Reduce the stress
Improve your rest
Give it a try, exorcise
Exorcise it’s a solution
Exorcise it’s a revolution
Exorcise it’s a revelation
Exorcise, start your levitation
A heart disease
A violent sneeze
Will pass you by, if you just exorcise
Exorcise
Bubonic plagues
Severe toothaches
Take my advice
You need to exorcise
Exorcise:
Bend your back
Just a little bit further
Remember to exhale while you let your head drop
Uncurl
Twist your neck sideways
Just a little bit further, one more round
Exhale, one more round
Keep your arms straight and breathe deeply
Hold for ten seconds, with your eyes closed
Open your eyes, let your body rise
Unhealthy spirit in an unhealthy body
The power of health compells you!
Levitate a bit more
And… relax.
The poltergeist, the evil eye
The bogeyman, exorcise
Exorcise
The succubus, the incubus
Your soul might die
If you don’t exorcise
Exorcise
Clockwork Friend
More, more, more I’m playing cos I want to score
I don’t wanna be a bore
Hardcore hardcore
I will not stop until I’m poor
I wanna have some fun
Dance for me cos you’re the sun
I can’t hide and I can’t run
Go on, go on
Your gaze is like a blazing gun
Truth or dare
Involve me in your poisons affair
Get me high on toxic air
Don’t care don’t care
If it’s a wig or your real hair
O, Clockwork Friend
Solarcore
(Solarcore) A magic mirrorMade of molten metal
Facets of a fantasy
If you dare to look up
(Solarcore) The gay science (7)
Of transfiguration
Numerology of abundance
Helium turned into gold
(Solarcore) A new hedonism
That is what this century wants (8)
The heat of magma
An underexplored sensation
(Solarcore) The sound of the summer
Etherial and poetic
A symphony of the nervous system
A language for the stars
(Solarcore) The heartbeat of the cosmos
An automated harpsichord (9)
Cybernetic dance music
Excess luxuriously spent
(Solarcore) A sensibility
Something like camp (10)
Unexpected bliss
If you dare to laugh
at yourself
Ha ha.
Vitamin D
We play minuets in CAt the tanning salon
We get Vitamin D
At the tanning salon
We recite some Battaile (11)
We recline for a while
At the tanning salon
We are gods made of bronze
At the tanning salon
Bring your automaton
We will turn it on
And then have a bonbon
At the tanning salon
K-formula
You’re a supernatural presenceYou resonate
Technological adolescence (12)
But if you want to control yourself
You must first control the universe
You can have the energy of a star
I can have the energy of a star*
You are a vision
In a crystal ball
You will have it
You will have it all
You can have the energy of a star
I can have the energy of a star*
You’ll be a winner of the human race
Keep up with the K-formula
Mass
Curves
Space
* chanted by the entire solar cult
Level X Information, knowledge, light
Atoms, vibration, electricity
Omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience
Sungodx
Atoms, vibration, electricity
Omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience
Sungodx
Cyrano
Cyrano He is from another century (13)Cyrano knows how to use his cosmic energies
Cyrano flies a solar powered space machine
Cyrano I would love to go with you
Cyrano His face is a sundial
Cyrano The clues are in the shades
Cyrano “it’s about time… hop on” it reads
Cyrano: “sí o no?”
Cyrano He is Heliogabalus (14)
Cyrano He is Ra
Cyrano He’s a perpetual motion machine
Cyrano He is…
Cyrano, take me for a flight in your UFO
Cyrano, let’s oscillate like a neutrino
Cyrano, take me for a flight in your UFO
Cyrano, enlighten me with your albedo
Cyrano, Sí sí, yeah yeah, o
Cyrano, CEO!
Cyrano, Y2K30, Cyrano, Piano
References
- John C. Lilly, Programming the Human Biocomputer (1968). Lilly spent many years studying dolphins, taking LSD and testing his own invention, the sensory deprivation tank. He reasoned that the brains of mammals are programmable biocomputers. As a dolphin has a heavier brain than humans, communication (interspecies interlock) should be possible if humans succeed in erasing useless programs like ‘fear’.
- As both Marjan van Aubel (Solar Futures, 2022) and Aaron Bastani (Fully Automated Luxury Communism, 2018) point out: only a fraction of the immense amount of solar energy reaching the earth is currently used for electricity production.
- The concept of desiring machines frees us from the limitations of the Oedipal triangle, thanks to Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus (1972). In our wish to merge with new energy technology we also keep in mind the wise words by Donna J. Haraway (A Cyborg Manifesto, 1985): “Cyborg monsters in feminist science fiction define quite differently the political possibilities and limits from those proposed by the mundane fiction of Man and Woman”.
- This song is inspired by Melody Jue’s contribution to the Ecotopian Lexicon (2019), where she imagines loanwords from Dolphin’s speech.
- Thus said Hafid Bouazza in an interview with literary magazine Bzzletin (2004). Ten years later, Bouazza wrote the novel Meriswin, which is named after the Old High German word for ‘dolphin’. The book is an unparalleled ode to hedonistic intoxication.
- Solaristics is a form of science in Stanislav Lem’s sci-fi novel Solaris (1961). The science’s yet unachieved aim is finding a way to communicate with a vast and mysterious ocean on the planet called Solaris. The Sun Age could witness a similar science while we figure out how to give meaning to the fact that we can literally channel the sun’s energy.
- In The Gay Science (1882) Friedrich Nietzsche advocates a covenant between wisdom and laughter. His ‘sunniest book’ is inspired by the Mediterranean weather and the gaya scienza (poetry) of the poet-knights of Provencal.
- A quote from Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1897). Lord Henry’s remark has never been more relevant.
- The harpsichord with an automatic, solar-powered lid was a creation of the Dutch inventor Cornelis Drebbel (1572-1633)
- In Notes on Camp (1964) Susan Sontag displays an amazing way to distill the essence of a fleeting aesthetic sensibility, which we gratefully try to build upon for Solarcore.
- Georges Bataille wrote not only the twisted and erotic poem The Solar Anus (1927), but also The Accursed Share (1949), an economic theory of excess. “Solar radiation results in the superabundance of energy on the surface of the globe,” wrote Bataille, among other things.
- American celebrity astronomer Carl Sagan built upon the work of his Soviet counterpart Nikolai Kardashev in inventing the K-formula, a formula to calculate the level of a civilization based on its energy use. According to the scale of Kardashev, a civilization goes from Type 1 to the more advanced Type 2, if it succeeds in using the energy of its nearest star (in our case, the sun). Currently humanity is in its ‘technological adolescence’ according to calculations by Sagan, as it mainly uses the energy of its own planet. Of course this song is also dedicated to another famous expert in human aspiration whose name starts with ‘Kardash*’...
- We bring an ode to Cyrano de Bergerac, the visonary sci-fi writer who wrote Comical History of the States and Empires of the Sun (1662). This unfinished novel is about a voyage to the Sun in a solar-powered flying wooden box.
- Heliogabalus (203-222) was an androgynous and debauchery-minded Roman emperor who wanted to introduce the Syrian solar cult of Sol Invictus. At Solstice, he danced for the people and handed out free food.