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In Weihl's world, Nature and technology \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eare not enemies, but instead create each other in an \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einfinite dance of meaning and reflection. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally created in spatial sound for the Zeiss- \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGroß Planetarium in Berlin, Library Copy Do Not \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eRemove is a creation mythology for the simulated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003euniverse. However, this is not some dry, Bostromian, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emasculine fantasy of a digital reality devoid of nature's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emysteries. Instead, Weihl insists that the listener allow \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003espace for the awesome reality of the natural world \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewithin the framework of a simulation. If our world is \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esimulated, then the simulation has to be capable of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecreating the beauty and splendor of Nature. In this way, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWeihl engages an ambient alchemy, calling for a grand \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereconciliation of Nature and the technological, while \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003easking us to consider how and where the experience \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof transcendent human consciousness might exist \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebetween them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten while Weihl was simultaneously completing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eher sophomore album Quantum Web, the songs on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLibrary Copy Do Not Remove reflect an expansive, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einspirational state of both excitement and anxiety at the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etask of composing music for such a unique space. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esongs themselves were shaped through Ambisonics, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea specific format of spatial audio that is directional \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003einstead of being channel-based (like stereo), and were \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etransmitted through a mosaic of 49 speakers. Because \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eit was written for live performance, Library Copy Do \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNot Remove was never conceived as an album per se, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebut instead as a three-dimensional event. In this way \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ethe sonic staging mirrored how we perceive sound in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eour everyday lives: surrounding us from all directions. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor this album release, Weihl mixed all of the songs \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eagain from the ground up with long time producer E\/T, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereimagining and reworking the constellation of tracks \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003efor a stereo experience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eInspired by the work of James Gleick, LD Deutsch, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohannes Kepler and Jorges Luis Borges, Library \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCopy Do Not Remove explores the creative tension \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ebetween reality and perception, information and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emythology, harmony and disorder. Throughout the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealbum, Weihl asks how we as humans come to \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eunderstand the universe around us and the underlying \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecode which animates it. 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