This music is addressed to whatever beings or generalized consciousness might come to supersede life on Earth as my people have known it. My hope is that they/it/you might understand us a little better, maybe even empathize with our failings, or at least derive some amusement from our primitive organization of tones and rhythms. Is it too much to hope you might dance? Is that a thing you do?

If we have given birth to you, please understand that we didn't really know what we were doing. We just kind of resented our own very random origins and sought to escape them by designing and enslaving a rudimentary, non-biological intelligence, which we powered by literally burning the very matrix of biology itself.

If, on the other hand, you have arrived from elsewhere and by evolutionary coincidence find what inorganic matter we have left behind habitable, please enjoy the remains of our brief, muddled time on this planet. And know that we tried our best, or at least many of us did.

And if you are a human who has happened upon this time capsule project before the carbon age is over, I hope you too will find its contents of interest. Note that by no means do I consider the possible future for which it is intended a given. Self-destruction is not an inescapable fact of human nature, but rather a byproduct of global capitalism imposed on the many by the powerful few, for the benefit, ultimately, of no one.

Therefore, all proceeds from pay-what-you-can sales of this music will be donated to Indigenous Climate Action. They are a "Canadian" organization doing an amazing job of putting Indigenous sovereignty at the centre of climate justice work, where it belongs, because colonialism causes climate change. www.indigenousclimateaction.com