'the incident' is conceived as a sonic storyboard, a labyrinthine, narrative-driven 'pseudo musical' - using comical sonic touches and startling, idiosyncratic abstractions to reflect the era's flustering absurdity.
divided into 4 chapters, the first part ('let the record show'), ponders upon the end of the information age - as we stumble on to an age of corroboration and mutual witnessing...observe, acknowledge, transform, throw back - and reality getting replaced by its representation.
'the currency of an urgent moment' meanwhile, the album's second act, observes this data deluge from four different vantage points, each with the same title in a different language.
reflecting upon how both language and place inform our understanding, each piece takes a radically different approach to the subject: dense, overpowering and dramatic, whimsical and delicate, ornate, charged and delirious - music as a model of transfer between exposure and experience.
the third act, 'repercussions', surrenders to a state of amplified apathy - as a 'comical exorcism'
the final piece - 'what really happened' - sets the story straight with "a docu-fiction piece by the multitude" that details the whole string of events as musically true as possible to what -really- happened
the album is meant as a precursor to a series of works titled 'based on a true story' which further explore the concept of musical documentaries - under the premise that the invocation of 'document' has to be considered impossible - or at least fraudulent.
