TRAILER

"A Bridged Comprendium of Many Folds" is a spoken word album and companion film of musicalized short stories by electroacoustic musician and video artist Aaron With. The visual album’s inventive sound design and mysterious narration hypnotically interact with animations of string theory manifolds—abstract geometries conceived in new dimensions to resolve troublesome discrepancies within physics. Manifolds are theoretically imperceptible, making their 3D translations rendered by curious physicists akin to sculptures of deities. Self-consuming forms that constantly fold into themselves, manifolds serve as visual metaphors for the logic knots self-imposed by each chapter’s inward-looking protagonist: the Monk, the Artist, the Manager, the Economist, the Gambler, and the Perfectionist. To lure the audience into their inner topographies, Comprendium utilizes the unsettlingly calming charms of New Age pseudo-spiritualism—ambient harmonies, soothing voices, overtones, guided visualizations, and “sacred geometry”. After following these interior tunnel visions into a dark hole, a cryptic satire emerges, revealing a possible escape.


RELEASE DETAILS

  • Release Date: June 21, 2024

  • Visual Album on BluRay Digipak

  • Audio version available as Digital Download

  • Pre-orders on Bandcamp

  • full press release


CREDITS

  • Music, Mix, and Film by Aaron With

  • 3D Textures by Inti Tonatiuh Gonzalez Delgado

  • Mastered by Graeme Durham at The Exchange

  • Manifold and conceptual geometry model design code contributed by various string theory physicists including Oliver Knill (Harvard University), Carlo H. Séquin (UC Berkeley), and Andrew Hanson (Indiana University).

  • Calabi-Yau manifolds benefit from the work of many contributing scientists, but are named after the foundational work of theorists Eugenio Calabi and Shing-Tung Yau.

  • Additional models contributed by 3D artists Erwin Souveton and Luxxeon.