Small Subsurface Markers

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	1.	Small Subsurface Markers (Demo) 02:58	lyrics	buy track
	This place is a message... and part of a system of messages... pay attention to it! Sending this message was important to us. We considered ourselves to be a powerful culture. This place is not a place of honor... no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here... nothing valued is here. What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger. The danger is in a particular location... it increases towards a center... the center of danger is here... of a particular size and shape, and below us. The danger is still present, in your time, as it was in ours. The danger is to the body, and it can kill. The form of the danger is an emanation of energy. The danger is unleashed only if you substantially disturb this place physically. This place is best shunned and left uninhabited.

Chris Modec-Halverson gently insisted I write a song using this sample message from this report digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1279277/
and its Wikipedia page
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-time_nuclear_waste_warning_messages

The image is from
www.wipp.energy.gov/library/PermanentMarkersImplementationPlan.pdf

My understanding is that all of this is public domain and that all of this is fair use, but if I'm mistaken, someone please let me know!

released August 31, 2020

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To The Mains Duluth, Minnesota

I make a variety of music, mostly by myself, at the new Ohmgrown Studios in Superior, WI. My neighbors here apparently can't hear me at all.

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