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Decommissioned

by Grayhawk Labs

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The following digital album contains field recordings from the exploration of Grayhawk Labs, a DARPA-funded laboratory that was decommissioned in 2005 after 35 years in service. The facility was found empty and apparently abandoned. The laboratory had been operating largely without supervision for nearly its whole existence, and some of the experiments produced here were ethically questionable, while others were perplexing, without apparent goal or motivation. Some even challenge our current understanding of the physical world.

1. The lobby of the laboratory is indistinguishable from other office buildings constructed in the 1970s, with the exception of computers that date to perhaps the late 90s. There is evidence that documents have been recently shredded here.

2. A room containing three hermetically-sealed chambers. Each chamber contains a cube of what appears to be black granite with a clock embedded in it. The clocks appear to be counting time at different rates.

3. This floor has been converted into a re-creation of a researcher's old backyard in Virginia, complete with a running stream and artificial sun. Apparently created to comfort his young daughter, who was having difficulty adjusting to their new midwestern home.

4. A laboratory set up for various isolation experiments. Contains two chambers for housing the primary subjects, and three observer chambers, all separated by several feet of steel. Corkboards disbursed throughout display crude of drawings of Russian Akula-class submarines, dated 1983 (the Akula was not confirmed to be in use until 1984).

5. A chamber for testing the conductivity of a black meteorite, which according to notes found nearby fell in Nevada in 1986. The rock appears to absorb all voltage that is pumped into it.

6. A three-dimensional holographic representation of a Tibetan monastery, with a mountain scene visible outside. Reported to have been a senior researcher's personal retreat, where she spent nearly all of her time following her husband's death in a car crash.

7. An automated factory, worked by robots that travel about on rails built into the ceiling. It appears this floor's original purpose was to produce equipment for other experiments but the robots have apparently been operating without supervision for years and have produced increasingly complex machinery of unknown purpose.

8. Sleeping quarters for housing the subjects of long-term experiments. Personal effects have been left behind in some bunks, most interestingly a cassette single of a Madonna song called "Golden Boy" dating from 1985. Her record label from this time period denies ever releasing a song with that title.

9. A cavernous chamber, approximately 100 meters cubed, containing a reflective black orb roughly 50 meters in diameter, which is suspended in the center of the chamber by unknown means.

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released March 13, 2019

Written and produced by Grayhawk Labs.
Recorded and mixed December 2018 - March 2019 at ATX Home Audio, Austin TX

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