short version:

tiny world theory is the name i am giving to the metaphysics concept that everything exists on an infinitely scaling fractal 'system' that has no beginning and no end, basically its like horton hears a who forever, this concept is what this little demo EP orbits around.

voices of: Prof Russel Stannard, Kristin Hersh, Allan Watts, Kathleen Hanna, Wendy Carlos, David Butler, darkroom tutors, sandy from a double8 workshop, me, strangers.

other samples, field recordings are all my own such as:

cameras as percussion, assorted voices sampled from random youtube videos, 6 different airports, assorted voices recorded while walking around downtown, shortwave radio surfing, various weathers, ambiences, the sounds of cameras working, workshops, friends, family and telemetry data.

thanku for listening



long version:

in this concept, the smallest particle in any given system would also simultaniously be the largest particle in any system, it just depends where on the scale you are to percieve it. the sun would be a particle, so would the earth, and so would you. rendering size effectively meaningless and purely subjective. in this concept, if you zoomed in on a grain of sand forever with no physics limitations you would find another universe, this cycle will go on for as long as you keep zooming, universe, grain of sand, universe, and so on.

there are no strings, bubbles or flat dimensional planes, perception of time is subjective already, but in this concept perception of time is the only time that time exists within. objectively and beyond perception everything would be happening at once and time would only exist for those who exist to perceive it, and even that would be limited and funnelled through their perceptive limits.

we often in science *imagine* time like a linear A - B travel (e.g 1989 > 2023, you cannot unscramble an egg) but in tiny world theory it's only a linear A - B travel through our perception, in reality there is no A and no B, there is no travel. everything exists all in the same instant and the "movement" of time - even on exterior objects that we interact with - is just us percieving movement in a timeless system, this does not mean you can travel back in time or manipulate it in any way, it means that your perception of it, is neccesary for time to exist or have meaning, its very human to assume externally the universe needs conventional time for things to move or be created. given that the universe is not following our subjective, human rules of the flow of time, which very much rely entirely on our perception.

this concept analogised: the universe could be like a video that is running at an infinite frames per second, and the only way to view the things happening in that infinity "video" would be to slow it down to a human digestible FPS, like that of our eyes and the processing power of our brains (perception) do not mistake this video for being very fast, it is infinite, you cannot even measure its FPS, "slowing" it down isnt something you can do, its your natural biological limit, you cannot even imagine a video that runs at an infinite FPS because you can't imagine anything being unbound from your human, linear understanding of time, nobody can. just goes to show how limited our perception is.

this idea, like a lot of metaphysics ideas, is totally unproveable, completely fantastical and crazy within our understanding of physics, but given how unstable quantum physics is, it's not *disproveable* but it is at its core a metaphysical question and so like pretty much all big metaphysical questions it is fundamentally unanswerable by modern physics and our perception, or at all really.

www.cellsalive.com/howbig_js.htm

we are, and will always be, dimensionally, proportionally and time-locked in this mystery, so nothing is off the table.


this EP is all about this idea, and i also littered it with excerpts from our tiny world, or our massive world depending on where u are.