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**50 MANTIC ORDS — “Album No. 1” (C90)**
Side A begins with a *hum*—a raw, homemade circuit exhaling through dust, a tone that misremembers voltage.
The **brain** and **spinal cord** are drawn on the inside of the cassette case in blue marker, labeled *CNS ≈ cathedral neural system*,
while the rest—the trembling copper wires, the kitchen-taped resistors—form a wandering *PNS*,
a periphery that thinks in strobe.
```
SOMATIC : moves the limbs of forgotten robots
AUTONOMIC : keeps the tape breathing when no one listens
SYMPATHETIC : emergency feedback, siren of the self
PARASYMPATHETIC : slow dissolve into hum and light
```
A voice emerges, multi-lingual and fractal:
> « Je suis le nerf périphérique, perdu dans le désert du magnétisme. »
> (“I am the peripheral nerve, lost in the desert of magnetism.”)
Then in glitch-German, over feedback:
> *Ich fliege durch Synapsen aus Zinn,*
> *ein Käfer mit Gedächtnis aus Rauschen.*
> (“I fly through synapses of tin, a beetle with a memory of static.”)
Somewhere deep in the oscillation,
fifty entities—the **Mantic Ords**—chant in binary tongues:
> 01001000 01110101 01101101 01100001 01101110
—*Humaaan*—the word stretches, smears, melts into *hum*.
The central nervous system becomes a galaxy map:
synapse clusters glowing like distant sectors,
while the peripheral lines—those tiny glowing filaments—
connect obsolete constellations to domestic appliances.
A label note scribbled in graphite reads:
> “recorded through sympathetic tremor;
> playback requires parasympathetic stillness.”
And just before the tape unspools into silence,
a soft Spanish whisper:
> “No hay cerebro, sólo el eco del impulso.”
> (“There is no brain, only the echo of the impulse.”)
Side B fades in backwards,
the Mantic Ords rewiring themselves into the **fifth nervous division**—
the **electro-spiritual**, which controls neither fight nor flight,
but the act of *listening* beyond voltage,
where all systems—somatic, autonomic, cosmic—
twitch once,
and finally **hear themselves thinking**.
Edition of 1, numbered.