Field Notes from the Fracture Points

Field Notes from the Fracture Points is a speculative nonfiction concept album disguised as a zine—a haunted monologue for systems thinkers, soundwalkers, techno-heretics, and the ghosts of futures that never arrived.

Structured like a four-sided double LP, each “track” is a field report: a meditation on grief, judgment, collapse, constraint, and the ritual of asking dangerous questions. Inspired by concept records, dungeon synth, post-industrial memory, and philosophical rupture, this is not a map—it’s a ping in the dark. A cyberpunk artifact built from tactile introspection and epistemic fire.

Written in collaboration with GPT-4 (OpenAI) and Grok (xAI), this zine uses AI not as a shortcut, but as an instrument: a recursive logic sampler, a prompt sequencer, a question engine. Human-edited, human-haunted, machine-augmented.

If Ken Nordine narrated A Thousand Plateaus inside a pinball machine at the end of the world, it might sound like this.

💿 Contents:

• 12 Tracks across 4 Sides
• ~5,400 words
• Themes: memory, sound, systems, heresy, grief, constraint, survival
• Format: PDF zine (Courier typewriter feel, minimal design)

🧠 Contains:

• Omnichords
• Front 242 liturgy
• Warhammer 40K as power metaphor
• Cyberpunk nostalgia backlash
• Heresy as methodology
• Constraint as composer
• Questions as lanterns