Cromatica - by Indianhead
About two months ago, we were searching for a title for a new track we'd completed about Identity Cards. I've studied Privacy Theory and have a few books regarding the subject from both the philosophical debate around personal and communal privacy, and the technology that frames and determines these moral/functional boundaries.
Whilst reading back through the texts, I discovered the CROMATICA (Crowd Monitoring with Telematic Imaging and Communication Assistance) project that was completed in 1999, morphing into PRISMATICA (Pro-active Integrated Systems for Security Management by Technological Institutional and Communication Assistance) 2000-2003. These projects were initiated to develop systems for monitoring and predicting potentially dangerous crowd behaviour, illegal activity and restricted zones. It focused particularly on behavioural patterns for predicting suicide.
Taken from CORDIS
-detection of potentially dangerous crowd phenomena
-fall on track detection
-detection of intrusion in forbidden areas, such as tunnels
-detection of abnormal lack of movement or counterflow movements in corridors
-detection of fights
-density and queue measurements
-routine data collection
-portable video link.
The idea for the track was to portray an alien journey into a dead city solely documented by surveillance. The machine as narrator. Then some suicidal northerners decided that they'd like a bit of this Al Qaeda fame. So, although the track will undoubtedly seem linked to recent events, we thought the notion of existentialism and suicidal statements, with systems that are promoted as the answer to all our problems by effectively documenting the failure of societal cohesion, was an interesting project.
This track is from our third album, hopefully to be released sometime next year. It’s in three parts but due to the nature of MP3 we’re presenting it here as one.
CROMATICA (ZONE 6-5): 06:08
CROMATICA (ZONE 4-3): 03:21
CROMATICA (ZONE 2-1): 02:49
CROMATICA by Indianhead
(You can hear more by Indianhead at http://www.serial01.co.uk/)
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