Anathem - Neal Stephenson [2008]

Title: Anathem Author: Neal Stephenson Narated: Oliver Wyman, Tavia Gilbert, William Dufris, Neal Stephenson Language: English Length: Unabridged 32 hours Bitrate: 48kbps Channels: 1 (Mono) Sample Rate: 22.050KHz In this follow-up to his historical Baroque Cycle trilogy, which fictionalized the early-18th century scientific revolution, Stephenson (Cryptonomicon) conjures a far-future Earth-like planet, Arbre, where scientists, philosophers and mathematicians—a religious order unto themselves—have been cloistered behind concent (convent) walls. Their role is to nurture all knowledge while safeguarding it from the vagaries of the irrational saecular outside world. Among the monastic scholars is 19-year-old Raz, collected into the concent at age eight and now a decenarian, or tenner (someone allowed contact with the world beyond the stronghold walls only once a decade). But millennia-old rules are cataclysmically shattered when extraterrestrial catastrophe looms, and Raz and his teenage companions—engaging in intense intellectual debate one moment, wrestling like rambunctious adolescents the next—are summoned to save the world. Anathem/Note to the Listener.mp3 Anathem/Timeline.mp3 Anathem/01 Provener/01 Anathem.mp3 Anathem/01 Provener/02 Cloister.mp3 Anathem/01 Provener/03 Aut.mp3 Anathem/01 Provener/04 Saunt.mp3 Anathem/01 Provener/05 Mystagogue.mp3 Anathem/01 Provener/06 Kefedokhles.mp3 Anathem/01 Provener/07 Proc.mp3 Anathem/01 Provener/08 Incanter.mp3 Anathem/02 Apert/01 Ita.mp3 Anathem/02 Apert/02 Avout.mp3 Anathem/02 Apert/03 Sline Part 1.mp3 Anathem/02 Apert/04 Sline Part 2.mp3 Anathem/02 Apert/05 Newmatter.mp3 Anathem/02 Apert/06 Liaison.mp3 Anathem/02 Apert/07 Plane.mp3 Anathem/02 Apert/08 Bulshytt.mp3 Anathem/03 Eliger/01 Eliger Part 1.mp3 Anathem/03 Eliger/02 Eliger Part 2.mp3 Anathem/04 Anathem/01 Gardan's Steelyard.mp3 Anathem/04 Anathem/02 Calca.mp3 Anathem/04 Anathem/03 To Go Hundred Part 1.mp3 Anathem/04 Anathem/04 To Go Hundred Part 2.mp3 Anathem/05 Voco/01 Lineage.mp3 Anathem/05 Voco/02 Ringing Vale.mp3 Anathem/05 Voco/03 Big Three.mp3 Anathem/05 Voco/04 Eleven.mp3 Anathem/05 Voco/05 Terrible Events.mp3 Anathem/06 Peregrin/01 Peregrin.mp3 Anathem/06 Peregrin/02 Bazian Orthodox Part 1.mp3 Anathem/06 Peregrin/03 Bazian Orthodox Part 2.mp3 Anathem/06 Peregrin/04 Erasmas.mp3 Anathem/07 Feral/01 Reticule.mp3 Anathem/07 Feral/02 Sea of Seas Part 1.mp3 Anathem/07 Feral/03 Sea of Seas Part 2.mp3 Anathem/07 Feral/04 Allswell.mp3 Anathem/07 Feral/05 Kelx.mp3 Anathem/07 Feral/06 Vout Part 1.mp3 Anathem/07 Feral/07 Vout Part 2.mp3 Anathem/08 Orithena/01 Semantic Faculties.mp3 Anathem/08 Orithena/02 Metekoranes.mp3 Anathem/08 Orithena/03 Sconic.mp3 Anathem/08 Orithena/04 Dialog Part 1.mp3 Anathem/08 Orithena/05 Dialog Part 2.mp3 Anathem/09 Inbrase/01 Convox Part 1.mp3 Anathem/09 Inbrase/02 Convox Part 2.mp3 Anathem/09 Inbrase/03 Tredegarh.mp3 Anathem/10 Messal/01 Lorite.mp3 Anathem/10 Messal/02 Everything Killer.mp3 Anathem/10 Messal/03 Sphenics.mp3 Anathem/10 Messal/04 Rebirth.mp3 Anathem/10 Messal/05 Syntactic Faculties Part 1.mp3 Anathem/10 Messal/06 Syntactic Faculties Part 2.mp3 Anathem/11 Advent/01 Teglon Part 1.mp3 Anathem/11 Advent/02 Teglon Part 2.mp3 Anathem/11 Advent/03 Rod Part 1.mp3 Anathem/11 Advent/04 Rod Part 2.mp3 Anathem/11 Advent/05 Causal Domain.mp3 Anathem/11 Advent/06 Requiem.mp3 Anathem/11 Advent/07 Harbinger.mp3 Anathem/12 Requiem/01 Requiem.mp3 Anathem/12 Requiem/02 Rhetor Part 1.mp3 Anathem/12 Requiem/03 Rhetor Part 2.mp3 Anathem/13 Reconstitution/01 Upsight.mp3 IOLET: Music from the World of Anathem -------------------------------------- Bitrate: 64kbps Channels: 2 (Stereo) Sample Rate: 22.050KHz The music on this disc was composed to accompany Neal Stephenson's novel Anathem. After hearing a short verbal description of the core ideas for the book during a dinnertime conversation in 2006, I was completely drawn into the world that Neal was creating. I began to draft musical ideas to match some of the imaginary musical traditions that he had described, and Neal supplied draft copies of his book to me as it took shape. The experimental vocal music that you hear on this disc is the result. It was clear from day one that the characters in the book possess not one, but many musical traditions, each forged over thousands of years of isolation, and each strangely similar to, yet exotically removed from, the monastic traditions of Earth. As an active performer of Earthly vocal music, as a lapsed musicologist, and especially as a composer, I was excited by the possibilities opened up by Neal's imagination: somber music to celebrate the mysteries of philosophy and mathematics within the soaring stone walls of a cloister; simple songs to ease the mathematical drudgery of verifying theories; inward meditations upon truth and beauty; and finally, fiendishly difficult musical games designed to hone intellectual prowess. -- David Stutz Anathem/IOLET/01 Approximating Pi.mp3 Anathem/IOLET/02 Thousander Chant.mp3 Anathem/IOLET/03 Proof Using Finite Projective Geometry.mp3 Anathem/IOLET/04 Cellular Automata.mp3 Anathem/IOLET/05 Quantum Spin Network.mp3 Anathem/IOLET/06 Sixteen Color Prime Generating Automaton.mp3 Anathem/IOLET/07 Deriving The Quadratic Equation.mp3 Anathem/IOLET/08 Mascheroni Circles.mp3

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