[OUT NOW] "Anon" - More Zcash-coded Music

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Zeeps,

Is #privacycore a thing?

I’m releasing a new ambient track on April 25 called The Shielded Pool under the artist name The Intelligence Community.

Composed as a meditation on Zcash’s privacy layer, it’s part shielded silence, part zero-knowledge echoes, and part cryptographic transmission, all inspired by the Zcash ethos and privacy tech more broadly.

:headphone: Hyperfollow link (Spotify pre-save + video teaser + socials)

This track was composed generatively via Bitwig (non-AI), with analog visuals pulled from a 1980s watercolor by outsider artist Jon Sarkin.

Would love for fellow Zcashers to check it out, share it around, and let me know what you think.

Thanks for listening to my quiet tribute to our loud endeavor,
Mark

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@earthrise we have a colleague of yours here! check it out!

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Is there anywhere I can hear this that’s not behind a youtube or spotify (or X or insta) link?

Bandcamp is a good still indy-ethos option, even though I think they were bought by Blizzard, I don’t think they destroyed anything yet.

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Oh, this isn’t out yet… where will it be published?

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@aaal, thanks for the privacy-preserving nudge there :slight_smile: :folded_hands:

I’ve uploaded the track to https://theintelligencecommunity.bandcamp.com/, it will be released on April 25. I’ll drop some track codes here for forum folks, too.

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Also hey @earthrise! Nice to meet another musician here.

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Heck yah! That rules.

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This is awesome I can’t wait!

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The Shielded Pool is released, enjoy!

You can find it by searching for “The Shielded Pool” on Spotify, YouTube Music, etc., or stream/download via Bandcamp: The Shielded Pool | The Intelligence Community

As promised, here are 10 free Bandcamp download codes for early listeners. First come, first serve!

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pr2v-ef68
vznj-5tfa
7y58-b2j7
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Would love your thoughts — reply here or message me if it resonates.

Thanks for listening,
Mark

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It’s good!

I am wondering if there’s some kind of hidden sound for the last 15 or so seconds, or if it’s just padded with some silence. :smiley:

well done, I like the moving bit depth (sample rate?) degradation fx

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Thanks @aaal. Yes much of the track is heavily “bit crushed”, as it were.

As to whether there are hidden messages in the silence… well, maybe. Maybe not.

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:police_car_light: New drop coming May 30

With another Crosslink milestone behind us, it’s time to release “The Shielded Pool”'s evil twin, Anon: a hyper-paranoid vision of an alien but inevitable future, where every defensive action echoes back modulated until trust’s final collapse.

Links:

I’ll be sure to drop some track codes here 24h before the release. Feedback, remixes, and conspiracy theories will be welcome!

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As to whether there are hidden messages in the silence… well, maybe. Maybe not.

At another time I would have investigated this–and not said anything! But right now my riddles including harnessing my FOSSm modal editor’s LSP server to a rapidly deprecating mutant leviathan… with a Bear.

(Somehow, not joking…)

So I thought I would tease any would-be interactors with the idea… Seems like it’d fit right in there. :wink:

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Anon is out!

Once again, you can find it by searching for “The Intelligence Community Anon” on Spotify, YouTube Music, whatever streaming service you might use. The privacy-minded can stream / download via bandcamp: Anon | The Intelligence Community

Here are 10 free Bandcamp download codes for the true believers. Let me know if you have any feedback!

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e6vf-7hal
bnbm-5j3e
wdv7-7ydu
pj9a-ef4p
rf2r-upj2
adl5-en8c
vus5-3275
75qf-hhmf
vr8l-5eya
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