In Quantum

Members: Eric Peterson.
Genre: Ambient, Dreampunk.
Biography:
In Quantum (IQ) is a dark project originally from Sweden now based in the United States. Peterson’s interest in making music began when a friend him a mix tape of older industrial music acts such as Einsturzende Neubauten and Skinny Puppy. In his own words, “I was immediately hooked on how synthesizers, drum-machines, and aggressive vocals ran through multiple distortion pedals, vocoders, delays, and harmonizers could have such an effect on sounds. From that point on I started finding metal objects to use as instruments as well as renting older synths from local music stores. From there it went to more sophisticated composing and equipment. I was a member of multiple small EBM/Industrial synth bands in Sweden and also as a sound designer.” He found inspiration in the works of Lustmord, Tangerine Dream, Vangelis, Stockhausen, and avant-garde industrial like SPK.

In Quantum’s sound is a highly atmospheric soundscapes underscored by cinematic builds and warm analogue basslines. The band’s first album, Memory 417, play like a soundtrack for a imaginary cyberpunk film. Within the liner note is written:

“Early Spring 2074. Some say the old days were different. Before cybernetics and the transhumanist revolution. Before the megacorps bought us and our nations, our hopes and our dreams. People back then did not live, work, eat and sleep their lives away within the towering megacorp arcologies. These days only the lucky do so.

Before the megacorps developed the semantic networks, there were us – soulless prototypes with imprinted memories and so cybernetically enhanced that we verge ever on cyber-psychosis. Due to our post-human DNA, programmed for resilience, we work and live in areas where Humans cannot – like Sector 417. A quarantined and irradiated zone where we protect and maintain the filtration, power and sewage systems of the Mega-City. The nuclear fallout from the conflicts of the 50’s is mostly cleaned up thanks to us, though you would never know it.

Water is scarce, and the first war over it is already brewing. We see, but lack the capacity to care. The word Humanity now feels on the tongue like some long-lost dream. A vision of freedom and serenity, turned to coarse sand on our pallets.

We see the riots from up here, red smoke and gunfire as anti-transhumanist chants peal through the city. Humans that are disenfranchised, without value in a new world where semantic networks connect the soulless, making them smarter and more effective. What is a single brain compared to thousands? Sometime recently we diverged from the evolutionary path of the many, and now seem land-locked into evolving into a single mind. A single mind at war with itself and all of creation. A single mind ready to disembowel itself to cut the cancer out.

To cut us out.”

Albums:
• Memory 417  (2019)

LINKS:
Bandcamp: cryochamber.bandcamp.com/album/memory-417
Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/cryo-chamber
Label: www.cryochamberlabel.com