This record is the first in a series of fourteen that were produced as part of the exhibition Woven All of Dream and Error, at Hošek Contemporary, Berlin, in September 2024.

Woven All of Dream and Error is a body of work that comprises films, images, and sounds, and which juxtaposes two eras in the history of technology: the sites of abandoned railway lines, and the emergence of machine learning—or what has generally come to be referred to as artificial intelligence. A fuller outline of the work is given in the artists’ introductory video (below) or on their website.

As part of this series of works, the artists produced a run of fourteen unique lathe-cut records—one for each line of the poem by Fernando Pessoa after which the project is titled. Dream 1 is the first of these fourteen records.

The artists produced this run of records in order to allow for a physical release to be given to a series of recordings, which they undertook to accompany asdfasdfasdf /// and which they describe as “compositions that draw from the lineage of drone, dub, and ambient music, to arrive at an organic counterpoint which can act as a suitable accompaniment to our alien trains.”

The compositions are also available online, via Bandcamp.

The records were produced using the SL-24 record lathe, a unique open-source project by Kris Slyka.