On this 1995 track, my synthesizers devote their spare CPU cycles to SETI. The ASR10M chooses an unmapped section of sky and blasts it with a hollow looped sound, amplitude modulated by a varying frequency square wave to reassure any eavesdropping extraterrestrial neighbors of its intelligent origin. A stuffy British narrator drones on about “the possibility of life on other planets” while the Pro-One periodically transmits a deep bass longwave. The Roland JD800 encodes the first thousand digits of pi in a fusillade of sixteenth-note intervals atop a martial beat from the R8 and 909. In the background, the Alesis sample player imposes its frequency spectrum on a signal from the Oberheim OB-8, courtesy of a Synton 202 vocoder module. In the track’s final minute, the 909 bass drum falls away to burn up during atmospheric re-entry, its job completed. Having achieved escape velocity, the ASR10M sends a hopeful two-note theme of choral sounds back to the tracking station in the Pacific Ocean. As the track speeds away from Earth, the audio slowly fades as the x-eleven studio transmitter is gradually overwhelmed by ambient noise.