Signal Fiction
Retro-futurist radio observatory at night with multiple dishes aimed in conflicting directions beneath an impossible geometric signal pattern.
PN-003Parallel Names

PN-003 // Transmission series

No Known Transmitter

A psychedelic transmission by Signal Fiction

13 tracks // 00:57:34 // Parallel Names

Carrier detected. Origin unresolved. Receiver logs remain incomplete.

Psychedelic trance, synthwave and melodic electric guitar carry thirteen linked observations of a signal that cannot be located or silenced.

13Observations
57:34Transmission
PN-003Catalogue

Receiver case file

Evidence,
not answers.

No transmitting site appears in the records. The bearings refuse to converge. The carrier survives every attempt to isolate it.

Across thirteen predominantly instrumental pieces, two investigators document shared rooms, ownerless memories and measurements that seem to anticipate the act of observation. Goa-trance propulsion, outrun synthesizers and electric guitar form the machinery of the transmission. Its source remains unresolved.

Recovered documentation // 13 entries

Receiver log

Each track is filed with the observation associated with it. Expand an entry for the longer technical note and any surviving dialogue.

  1. 01

    Noise Floor

    Anomaly detected above baseline. Source unresolved.

    View observation and transcript

    Repeated capture exceeds measured system noise. No corresponding transmission event was logged.

    Transcript

    A: There.

  2. 02

    No Known Transmitter

    Three bearings obtained. No intersection point.

    View observation and transcript

    Independent receivers confirm the carrier. Directional solutions remain mutually incompatible.

    Transcript

    A: Try it again.
    B: Same result.

  3. 03

    Carrier Without Source

    Suspected transmission equipment powered down. Carrier persists.

    View observation and transcript

    Removal of known local sources produced no measurable reduction in signal strength.

    Transcript

    A: Nothing is sending it.

  4. 04

    False Bearing

    Receiver position changes bearing without producing a consistent geometry.

    View observation

    Repeated relocation generates plausible directional solutions. None converge on a stable origin.

  5. 05

    The Listening Field

    Unrelated observers describe the same location.

    View observation and transcript

    Reports contain matching spatial details despite no known shared reference or prior contact.

    Transcript

    A: Did you see the room?
    B: Yes.

  6. 06

    Memory Without Owner

    Subjects report identical memories with no shared history.

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    Recalled events cannot be reconciled with personal records, location histories, or known contact between subjects.

    Transcript

    B: I remember being there.
    A: You weren't.

  7. 07

    Phase Contact

    Correlation appears in sleep, pulse, attention, and response timing.

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    Independent subjects show increasing temporal alignment following prolonged exposure.

    Transcript

    B: We're falling into phase.

  8. 08

    Coherence

    Independent receivers begin producing correlated variations.

    View observation

    Divergent systems exhibit synchronized fluctuations not explained by shared clock, network, or source.

  9. 09

    Receiver / Received

    Signal behavior changes before measurement commands are issued.

    View observation and transcript

    In multiple trials, carrier variation precedes the operator action associated with the variation.

    Transcript

    B: It's listening back.

  10. 10

    The Observer Problem

    Observation can no longer be excluded as a variable.

    View observation and transcript

    Repeated attempts to isolate the observer produce changes comparable to those previously attributed to equipment state.

    Transcript

    A: It changes when we look at it.

  11. 11

    No Distance

    Measurable propagation delay disappears.

    View observation and transcript

    Separated receivers register correlated events without a stable delay proportional to distance.

    Transcript

    B: There was never anything between us.

  12. 12

    Before the Receiver

    Carrier pattern identified in archival material predating the apparatus.

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    Pattern match exceeds expected coincidence across recordings created before the current receiver architecture existed.

    Transcript

    A: This recording predates the receiver.

  13. 13

    The Carrier Remains

    All receiving systems isolated. Carrier remains detectable.

    View observation and transcript

    No active transmitter identified. No remaining system can account for persistence.

    Transcript

    A: No transmitter found.

Final receiver state

End of log

SourceUNRESOLVED
OriginUNRESOLVED
CarrierPRESENT

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Signal Fiction makes electronic music about memory, identity, desire and the shifting boundary between human experience and digital existence.

Each album is shaped around the story it needs to tell, while the questions underneath remain connected. AI tools support composition, performance and visual development. The concepts, narrative design, artistic direction, curation and final decisions remain human-led.

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