Anathem - Neal Stephenson [2008]

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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
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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