Peter C. Bruno - Be Linear | Strategic Tape Reserve Staff

Peter C. Bruno - Be Linear

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Grey C-57 cleverly disguised as a typical minimal-wave synth-pop cassette with paint splattered shell label. Tape version is slightly different to the digital for reasons of security.

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1.	False Floor 02:59	info	buy track
2.	Topographical Features 05:05		buy track
3.	Figures 05:07		buy track
4.	Buildings 04:15		buy track
5.	Actions 03:54		buy track
6.	Professions 04:06		buy track
7.	Unclassified 05:28		buy track
8.	Vehicles 04:17		buy track
9.	Parts of the Body 04:04		buy track
10.	Common Idioms 04:16		buy track
11.	Fauna 05:27		buy track
12.	Materials 04:38		buy track

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‘Peter C. Bruno - Be Linear’ by Strategic Tape Reserve Staff is an audio codebook disguised as a synth pop tape. The first track on Side A, ‘False Floor’, is a decoy - an innocuous piece of industrial-tinged minimal wave designed to satisfy the customs inspector or security services officer whose meticulous skepticism drives them to examine the audio content of this seemingly neutral cassette. For this reason, we we strongly recommend the tape always be kept rewound to the beginning of Side A when not in operation. ‘False Floor’ is engineered to convincingly portray what most people would regard as actual music, and additionally to subtly dissuade the casual fan of songs from prolonged listening. The rest of the tape comprises the codebook.
The cypher is split into 11 themed sections which function as a cryptological lookup table. 103 carefully selected words and phrases are paired with purpose-built synthetic sounds. In practice, one party reproduces these sounds (using a music synthesiser, acoustic instruments, manipulated field recordings, or vocalised interpretations) in a sequence to communicate information to another party, who decodes their meaning by comparing the transmitted sounds to those on the tape.
In time, it’s likely that experienced intelligence operatives and skilled electronic musicians will obtain a high level of proficiency in using the cypher, in which case the tape could be reserved as a reference to be used only with tricky, especially expressive renditions of the code.
To prevent the tape from simply being fed into a high-powered computer for decryption, an evolving drone sits behind each section. This functions similarly to the ‘CAPCHA’ test found on some internet sites, exploiting certain competency gaps between artificial and human intelligences (in this case, segmentation and parsing), erecting a secondary level of encryption against machine learning.
Finally, we anticipate the concerns from those who perhaps detect paradoxical behaviour in a tape reserve PUBLISHING a SECRET code. While probably well intended, we feel that such concerns are not warranted. According to our internal research, the number of people who are aware of Strategic Tape Reserve stands between 35 and 60 individuals (roughly 0.00000067% of the global population). Other successful substitution cyphers, such as the WWII code based on Navajo language, were significantly more well known during their time of use. It’s also worth noting that there are slight differences in the content of the digital version and the tape version of this release. Therefore, the tape version of the code, whose dissemination we hold greater control over, should be considered the more secure form of encryption. If we suspect that a tape has been ordered by a party whose ethical and ideological views do not align with our own, e.g. the counterintelligence bureau of an authoritarian police state, a false-cypher tape containing incorrect sounds will be sent, setting back and likely demoralising their codebreaking efforts.

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released July 23, 2020

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The Strategic Tape Reserve is a fully independent (non-aligned, secular) organization dedicated to the dissemination and responsible management of ferric cassette material and content.

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This release is amazing. All of my favourite sounds (and sounds that I didn't know would be my favourite sounds) arranged in the most perfect way possible. I love love LOVE this. Super fun and experimental. I can't recommend this release enough. The tape is super nice sounding and well packaged with some lovely goodies included. Great artistc+ great label. Thankyou!!.xxxx utopia cloak
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