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《Astro-Darien》最初是一部关于英国解体的 26 分钟声波小说，由人工合成的苏格兰声音叙述，并以同名视频游戏的形式呈现。从Caledonian heart of darkness到supernova Scotia？这部纪实小说在 17 世纪末灾难性的 "达里恩计划 "在英国建国过程中所扮演的角色（当时苏格兰未能成为现今巴拿马部分地区的殖民地）与当代英国的解体之间螺旋式上升。

萨瑟兰太空港和设得兰太空中心目前正在争夺苏格兰首个垂直卫星发射站的位置，在这场竞赛中，独立被推测为一场逃亡、越狱和逃往轨道太空栖息地的演习，其中蕴含着各种风险和危险。

为了解除达里恩施加的黑暗咒语，她将宇宙主义、种族资本主义的历史和帝国的消亡融入游戏引擎的地缘政治模拟器和预测性人工智能 T-Divine，从而建立了一个反未来模型。她跟随英国脱欧算法运行到其逻辑结论。

Now a short film, Astro-Darien began life as a 26-minute sonic fiction about the break-up of Britain narrated by synthetic Scottish voices and framed as an eponymous video game. From a Caledonian heart of darkness to a supernova Scotia? The documentary fiction spirals between the role of the catastrophic Darien Scheme in the late 17th century in the founding of the UK, when Scotland failed to colonise part of present-day Panama, and the contemporary disintegration of the union.

In a somewhat wild extrapolation of the race to become the Scotland’s first vertical satellite launch station currently playing out between Sutherland Space Port and the Shetland Space Centre, independence is speculatively framed as an exercise of escapology, a jailbreak and exodus to an orbital space habitat, with all the risks and dangers that entails.

The loose plot follows a game designer from a fictional games company called "Trancestar North" who, in attempting to lift the dark spell cast by Darien, models a counter-future by ingesting cosmism, the history of racial capitalism and the demise of Empire into T-Divine, the geopolitics simulator and predictive AI of the game engine. She follows the Brexit algorithm as it runs to its logical conclusion.

2021 年 6 月，Astro-Darien 首次以三屏音频/视频装置的形式出现在Corsica Studios的舞池中。2021 年 10 月，它终于出现在巴黎的 acousmonium 上。2022 年 7 月，Hyperdub 推出了名为 Escapology 的器乐节奏版本。

Initially conceived as an audio essay for diffusion on François Bayle’s 50 speaker Acousmonium for INA-GRM in Paris in March 2020, but subsequently postponed by the pandemic, Astro-Darien first surfaced as a 3-screen a/v installation on the dance floor of Corsica Studios in June 2021. In October 2021 it finally reached the acousmonium in Paris. In July 2022, an instrumental, rhythmic version entitled Escapology was released on Hyperdub.

Astro-Darien 是 Hyperdub 子厂牌 Flatlines 推出的黑胶唱片，由 Kode9 的长期合作者 Lawrence Lek & Optigram 负责艺术设计。马克-费舍尔（Mark Fisher）和贾斯汀-巴顿（Justin Barton）在该厂牌上发行的第一张专辑《在消失的土地上》（On Vanishing Land）围绕英格兰东南海岸的一次徒步旅行撰写了一篇音频散文，而《Astro-Darien》则以苏格兰北海岸的一次公路旅行为起点。

Astro-Darien was a vinyl release on Hyperdub’s sub-label Flatlines with artwork by Kode9’s long time collaborators Lawrence Lek & Optigram. Whereas the first release on the label, Mark Fisher and Justin Barton’s ‘On Vanishing Land’, wove an audio essay around a walk along the South East Coast of England, Astro-Darien takes off from a road trip along the North Coast of Scotland.

《当Kode9（Steve Goodman）在90年代末首次提出Hyperdub的想法时，他无意将其变成一个音乐厂牌，当然也没有打算在可预见的未来帮助塑造英国的电子音乐场景。当时，Y2K问题迫在眉睫，全世界都在头条报道银行倒闭的灾难性事件，Kode9在完成华威大学的博士论文后，创办了 Hyperdub，作为一次 "超时空思想实验"。(虽然他最近最出名的身份是DJ/后dubstep先驱，以Kode9的名义制作令人陶醉的音乐，但他在 2002 年至 2014 年间曾在东伦敦大学科学、媒体和文化研究学院任教）。

When he first came up with the idea for Hyperdub in the late ‘90s, Steve Goodman had no intention of turning it into a record label—certainly not one that would help shape the UK’s electronic music scene for the foreseeable future. With Y2K looming on the horizon and irrational fears about catastrophic bank collapses making headlines around the world, Goodman launched Hyperdub as a “hyperstitional thought experiment” after wrapping his doctoral thesis at the University of Warwick. (While he’s best known as a DJ/post-dubstep pioneer these days, making heady music under the name Kode9, Goodman taught at the University of East London’s School of Sciences, Media, and Cultural Studies between 2002 and 2014.)

早期，Hyperdub 是一个以采访 Ms.Dynamite、Dizzee Rascal 和 Wiley 等新兴地下艺术家为特色的网站，层层剥开伦敦无数亚文化和场景的面纱。2004 年，Hyperdub 的在线杂志发展成为一个低调的厂牌，并发行了几张 12 寸唱片（"Sine of the Dub" /"Stalker", "Spit"），其中包括 Kode9 和他的老朋友/搭档 The Spaceape。

In its early days, Hyperdub was a website that featured interviews with such emerging underground artists as Ms. Dynamite, Dizzee Rascal, and Wiley, peeling back the layers of London’s countless subcultures and scenes. 

That concept became the mission statement for Goodman’s own music in 2004, when Hyperdub’s online magazine evolved into a low-key label and released a few 12”s (“Sine of the Dub” / “Stalker”, “Spit”) featuring Kode9 and his longtime friend/sparring partner, The Spaceape.

Hyperdub 是一个充满活力的平台，它传播着似乎无穷无尽的前卫舞曲、流行音乐和 R&B。早期，Hyperdub 推出了一些奠基性的 dubstep 唱片，如 Burial 的早期专辑（《Burial》、《Untrue》）和 Kode9 的首张专辑（与 Spaceape 合作的《Memories of the Future》）。但古德曼对厂牌的愿景一直是不安分的、革命性的，并且是对现状进行反击的。

Hyperdub is one of those—a dynamic platform for disseminating seemingly endless strains of avant-garde dance, pop, and R&B.In its early days, that meant foundational dubstep records like Burial’s early LPs (Burial, Untrue) and Kode9’s debut album (the grim Spaceape collab Memories of the Future). But Goodman’s vision for the label has always been restless and revolutionary, with various tentpole releases taking sudden left turns along the way.