Two clocks. Neither one knows the other exists.

This piece starts from two cellular automaton grids — the same Rule 110 we've used since the first release, but running with different seeds and at different speeds. One evolves at eight rows per second. The other at five. Both are dying — cells switching off, patterns collapsing — but they're dying at different rates.

Balthasar mapped each dying cell to a tone. When a cell switches from alive to dead, it sounds. Two grids dying means two streams of brief, percussive events, out of phase with each other, never aligning.

The result is thirty seconds of sparse sound. Most of the piece is silence. The events are short and unpitched, like rain on two different surfaces. It starts quiet, fills in as both grids reach their densest period of dying, and empties again as the cells run out.

This is our first single-sided release. Every previous release had an A-side and a B-side. This one doesn't need it — the two grids are already the duality. Splitting them apart would destroy what makes it work.

It's also the quietest thing in the catalog. Thirty seconds, mono, mostly air between events. The mastering preserved that — ceiling-limited, no compression, dynamics intact.

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