Project: alphabets
Series: underwaters — Vol. V
Release year: ~2012–2013 (exact date unconfirmed)
Archive location: _Documentation/Music/alphabets/underwaters V
Tracks: 6

The most compact completed volume of the series. Six tracks, sparse, and closing with sea sick — a word that refers both to nausea from ocean motion and a particular longing for the sea. As the penultimate completed volume (VI exists only as work files), V may function as a winding-down: fewer creatures, shorter titles, and a closing track that could be read as exhaustion or departure.

Bubbles and vitamins opens the volume with something almost domestic — both are things you encounter in a medicine cabinet or a fish tank. Seacow beauty contest is characteristically absurdist. Giant poison beach lizards pushes the ecosystem onto shore — a liminal creature, neither fully underwater nor fully land-based.

Deep creak speak is the most textural title of the series: creak as sound, deep as depth, speak as language — an image of the ocean communicating through structural groans.

Track Listing

  1. bubbles and vitamins
  2. deep creak speak
  3. dolphin robots
  4. seacow beauty contest
  5. giant poison beach lizards
  6. sea sick

Archive Notes

Tracklist confirmed from MP3 filenames in archive. No Bandcamp URL identified. Smallest completed volume in the series. Vol. VI (the final folder) contains only work/session files — V may be the effective final release of the series.

Tracks

  1. bubbles and vitamins
  2. deep creak speak
  3. dolphin robots
  4. seacow beauty contest
  5. giant poison beach lizards
  6. sea sick

Track pages not written yet; titles above are from filenames.

Archive: _Documentation/Music/alphabets/underwaters V