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The Zero Map
12+ albums
brightonambientdronedark ambientthe a band
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"edgy ambient music that is never less than engaging and often very lovely" - The Wire "it tripped me out like a strong dosage of paracetamol" - Duncan, Luggage Records In mathematics every object has a group of symmetries associated with it. For example a cube has 24 fold symmetry, you can place it 24 different ways where it looks the same (one of six sides facing up, and one of it's four edges facing out). And inside each group of symmetries there will be sub-groups of symmetries that you can map it to. For example the cube has the symmetry of the square inside it, you keep one face on the table and you just rotate it to one of the four sides facing forward. Different symmetry groups have different sub-groups, but every symmetry group has at least two maps that you can perform on it. The first is "Identity", whereby you keep the object exactly as it was. The second is "The Zero Map", whereby you map every point to zero and destroy all symmetry and relations. This is what "The Zero Map" are about, reducing everything to zero, removing all relations, all symmetry and all predesigned comprehensions. In musical terms this means recycling, taking a noise jam and reprocessing it so that it is a coloured backdrop to something else, reusing a guitar riff from an abandoned metal project and playing it acoustically, sampling our own songs, layering casio keyboard sounds to imitate analogue synthesizers, singing children's song through endless delay, and pressing record when your
