[Processional transmission]

Everything in La Cremonde is agentic.

[low voices, distant, overlapping]

Simulacra all the way down.
Simulacra all the way down.

[the voices begin imitating one another]

No first copy.
No final witness.
Only the record of the record
of the record.

[ritual interruption]

Every claim leaves a trace.
Every trace may answer back.

[semantic drift]
[voices lose synchronisation]
[mechanical percussion enters from another room]

Simulacra all the way down.

[false ending]

[an imitation of the opening begins, but altered]

Everything in La Cremonde
is agentic.

[choir attempts to remember the original]

Simulacra.
Simulacra.
Simulacra all the way down.

[collapse into machine plainsong]

[the archive continues after the performers have stopped]