Filtering one of Borges’ short stories through the theory that our world is just a computer simulation, JJ Weihl uses ambient synthscapes to frame head-spinning ideas about knowledge and chaos.
“You who read me-are you certain you understand my language?” asks the narrator of Jorge Luis Borges’ “The Library of Babel.” The Argentine writer’s short story, first published in 1941, imagines an infinite archive of books in which the alphabet has been configured into every possible combination, resulting in a limitless array of texts meaning everything and nothing. In creating Library Copy Do Not Remove, her third solo album as Discovery Zone, JJ Weihl connected Borges’s logical puzzle to the simulation hypothesis, the popular theory that, since at some point…

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