Originally included as the last track on on 3:33’s In The Middle of Infinity CD, The White Room was once a 41-minute, 10-second “album within an album.” A conceptual and sonic bridge to the Bicameral Brain double-disc, The White Room has always taken on a dichotomous character, being initially described as “Inhabited by two mysterious figures,” and a place that “implodes and expands unboundedly in every direction upon being perceived.” Considering this, it makes sense for 3:33 to re-imagine the room on cassette (edition of 90 available here), a two-sided medium perfectly suited to convey the ambient drone of negative space.
In streaming sides A and B below, you might notice that the recording now only adds up to 40 minutes and 26 seconds, which begs the question, “What happened to the other 44 seconds?” While we can’t know for sure, we might guess that this lapse was lost in the mouth of madness, a risk one runs when “splitting the mind” into twin peaks of sur/reality.
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