Anthropocene

The term Anthropocene is a newly proposed addition to the geological timescale; to be placed above, or after, the Holocene (see image). It assumes that the human presence in the geological record will show in the far future so clearly, that a separate epoch in the geological timescale is already justified. It is however in itself a prediction rather than an observation, even though human activity is already creating a new type of sedimentary debris, predicted to become part of future rock forming.

Next to the debris, the Climate Disaster caused by human activities is also expected to leave behind a significant and specific stratigraphic signature, not merely by the presence of substances but also for example by the absence of future fossils of species currently dying out. Anthropocene is a term to not be proud of perhaps, and the proposed alternative Homogenocene is not more optimistic, as it refers to an impoverished natural life, very similarly composed everywhere on the planet, after the disappearance of many specialized more local species, both plant and animal. The human impact on biodiversity is one of the main ideas behind the name Anthropocene.

In the music of this album, the composer imagined a sounding musical stratigraphy, with partly eroded fossil sounds of instrumental music long dead, among which are remnants of human made harmonies, encased in a matrix of eroded noise. In the course of the work, one travels as if through geological musical time, gradually meeting more and more less familiar memories, artifacts, forms and substances, preserved and left behind.

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