Second Site: 27° 37' 35" N 77° 13' 05" E

Album by Paul Schütze

Released 25 May 1997

ambient avant-garde electronic

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CD 1
1
First Prologue.
1:01
2
The dial is only visible by starlight.
1:16
3
Every day at noon the sun shines through these apertures for the space of about a minute.
0:38
4
The image of the sun indicates the sun's position as it passes through a hole in the concurve surface.
1:15
5
There is a brass pointer fitted with sights and pivoted to the centre of the circle by which altitude observations are made.
0:49
6
The chamber is no longer accessible to visitors.
1:00
7
Access to any part of the engine is by steps which offer vantage points for various readings.
0:49
8
Suspended in the hum of history.
1:10
9
Originally cross wires stretched across each hemisphere, East to West and North to South.
1:17
10
The ramped stair to the North of the two drums vanishes at thirty-two feet.
1:03
11
These steps enable the observer to see all aspects of the brass calibration below.
0:39
12
There is a huge calibrated sundial on each of its sides.
0:59
13
This chamber is filled with garden tools and broken furniture.
1:00
14
The mosaic of starlight slips back like the lid of an opening eye.
0:59
15
This engine is primarily a calculator, though altitudes may be observed using the sighting bar fitted to the back.
0:59
16
It is inscribed with concentric circles, at the centre of which lies a pointer.
1:01
17
The calibrated parts are raised on three-foot pillars.
1:00
18
The pink masonry charges the twilight with a faint sound.
0:59
19
Another slope with stars for the reading of figures.
1:00
20
This engine is now only visible in twilight.
1:00
21
Here is an immense brass circle suspended vertically from stone supports.
0:48
22
Two hemispheres representing the sphere of heaven comprise the two halves of this engine.
1:10
23
This wall describes accurately the North/South meridian.
0:59
24
There are pillars at the centre of each circular wall each open to the sky.
0:49
25
First Memory.
1:09
26
The sky has shaped this place.
1:00
27
Here I find a central iron pole with hooks facing to the North, South, East and West.
0:59
28
A shadow is cast to the West before noon.
0:58
29
The shadow can fall in the vacant sector of a drum.
1:01
30
Days and nights are measured here, and in the measuring seem longer, suspended somehow.
1:00
31
The whole brass circle can be revolved around its vertical diameter so that altitude observations can be taken of any object at any time.
0:59
32
A lofty but narrow chamber is contrived in the thickness of the walls and access is gained from a door opening from the masonry platform on which the engine stands.
0:36
33
A further series of steps is only visible during the vernal equinox.
0:23
34
Hold the machine in the vertical plane.
1:00
35
Visible portions of the celestial sphere are represented by this map which has a movable elliptic which pivots at the point representing the pole.
1:01
36
To move through these structures is to set them in motion.
0:58
37
The altitude of the body observed is given while observing the vertically hanging bar through the two brass rings.
0:59
38
A shadow is cast to the East after noon.
0:59
39
These calibrations are no longer clearly visible.
0:59
40
Another flight of observation steps and the sense of quiet rotation as I ascend.
1:00
41
I study the vaults of a shell in which we float.
0:59
42
Twenty-seven degrees, thirty-seven seconds.
1:00
43
The roofs of the enclosed drums are implied by shadows.
0:59
44
The floor and walls are calibrated to read altitude and azimuth.
0:59
45
These are the cool engines of celestial map-making.
1:00
46
Here is the Supreme Engine.
0:59
47
The sun seen through the pair of brass rings is used by the bar to indicate the time from sunrise until sunrise.
1:00
48
A pointer indicates on three arms: West, North and East.
0:59
49
Here was the Supreme Engine.
0:58
50
The engine of amplitude has a function which is no longer known.
1:00
51
This engine is a rectangular brass plate.
0:59
CD 2
1
Second Prologue.
1:00
2
Once complete engine is formed by two differently incomplete parts which combined provide total reference.
1:00
3
At one moment in the year the sun shines through a hole in the wall on to a calibrated arc.
1:00
4
The stone dish is slotted with figures and shadow.
1:00
5
The positions and altitudes of heavenly bodies maybe gauged with this engine.
0:59
6
Some steps ascend past markings to a platform.
1:00
7
The central pillars are five feet three inches in diameter.
0:58
8
On the East face are inscribed two quadrants of twenty-feet radius.
1:00
9
The plants will steal this engine when we have gone.
1:00
10
The shadow is cast North/South at noon by an iron pin.
0:59
11
A shadow is cast to the East after noon.
1:00
12
These steps are worn to a ramp and lead nowhere.
0:59
13
All the lead calibrations are warm to the touch.
1:00
14
It is only necessary to engrave a scale of the tangents along the rim to obtain a direct reading of the declination.
0:17
15
Second Memory.
0:43
16
The lead calibrations are poisonous to the touch.
0:59
17
This is the North pointer engine.
1:00
18
The rim of each hemisphere is a horizon divided into degrees and minutes.
0:59
19
Here is a room to divide the sun like an orange.
1:00
20
Sighting bars were placed in the slots within the chamber, but none remain now.
0:59
21
The sound of insects here studs the night like a thousand fizzing stars.
0:57
22
Access by observers to each engine is gained by an imperfection which differs from one to another.
1:02
23
These structures are made in receipt of starlight.
0:54
24
Seven of the eight rings indicate signs.
0:31
25
Third Memory.
0:35
26
Fourth Memory.
1:07
27
I Have Observed And Measured For Seven Years
0:51
28
I have observed and measured for seven years.
0:37
29
Fifth Memory.
0:23
30
There are four of these arcs, two in each chamber.
0:58
31
These are instruments fuelled by shadow, and engines propelled by the sliding of the skies.
1:11
32
The stars are ranged across the inner shell of a vast hollow sphere in which hung the earth.
0:48
33
All the gardens will concur. Here is the mixed engine.
0:59
34
I will build other gardens, other engines.
0:58
35
And the light falls on the circular arcs.
1:03
36
Beneath this circle is an arc of masonry steps for the convenience of observers.
1:00
37
Threads can be pegged to the centre of each quadrant and semicircle to enable observation.
0:57
38
Here is a huge vertical right-angled triangle made of stone.
1:02
39
These arcs are also accessible by numerous flights of stairs.
0:59
40
We are closer to the sun now.
0:59
41
On the West face is described a semicircle of nineteen-feet, ten-inch radius.
1:00
42
Into this chamber no ray of light can find its way except through two small squares high in the South wall.
1:00
43
The movement of the engines produces a scent.
0:58
44
Sixth Memory.
0:56
45
Pointing towards the pole an iron pin is fixed at right angles to the centre of a dial.
0:59
46
Some of the calibrations are now submerged beneath the ground and cannot be read.
1:01
47
This room is a lidless drum.
1:02
48
Seventh Memory.
0:57
49
Near the bottom of the wall facing the South side of the eastern hemisphere there is a hole.
1:59
50
There are arcs made of marble which are calibrated with inlaid lead in degrees and minutes.
2:01
51
I have seen charts sent from Portugal but they are flawed and full of error.
1:01