The Bletchley Park Project
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A concept album for the new millennium...
It is always inspiring to be part of or even to observe teams coming
together; we typically just experience teaming for extended periods
of time within the economic cycle of Corporate America, which
despite its well-publicized gains, is nonetheless unfortunately
slowly extending its tentacles around the unfiltered imagination
more and more. Notwithstanding this economy, today we can still
experience the true fabric of teaming in the games of children, in
the projects of academia, within the scientific and social
communities, and of course, whether we choose to be cooperative or
not, in the contagious mystique of the family circle.
Another aspect of close teaming, which we may not like to
acknowledge as such because of the perception of perhaps condoning,
or even worse, provoking such teaming, lies within the pretext of
war. And although the goal of this type of team seems vastly
different from our notion of what teams usually purport to gain, the
gap does not appear to be so unbridgeable when we consider the long
and elaborate veil which hangs so regularly in front of these goals.
This is what justifies our actions in the West. This is what we call
progress.
And it doesn’t surprise us anymore when progress has left the
tracers of its path in two directions and not one. So it is with
this in mind that we set out against the losses that hide long
enough until they gain the necessary strength to thrive in the
permanence of history that demands that they do just that. It is the
loss of humanity, too slow and determined to run at the speed of
progress, that is now blowing back in the great white draft of
acceleration. And as it seems that this tide has turned to the bad,
as it always will in the relative picture of judgment, we set out
against not only the two faces of progress, but against the now
inherent duality of man.
In the second World War the Allied Powers were forced to team
against the Axis Powers for disparate nationalistic motivations;
however, this is also in many cases one important aspect of
successful teams, the means of which will ultimately lead to a
branch of dissimilar ends. Great Britain and the United States
teamed together in England’s Bletchley Park to defeat the German
Enigma machine, crack the encoded submarine convoy directives, and
turn the tide of the war. As astonishing and valuable a tactical
feat as this was for the Allies, the aspect of this team which would
stand to last as an inspiring attribute for many teams was this: the
ability to renovate the tools of thinking to provide a compulsory
result within the constraints of unreasonable time.
This project for the sake of art and collaboration is fresh and
important within the unbalancing of our quick recollections and
reminders of having to always weigh things, having to pass over our
desires, constantly placing values where they don’t exist in a
justification of elegance and intelligence.
The Bletchley Park Project
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