Pomona, CA

The Witness (Unofficial Soundtrack)

Release date May 28, 2016

Tracklist

1
Entry Area, Walled Garden (Rooftop) - "Searching for, but never finding, the builder of this house." - Unattributed
0:18
2
Entry Area, Walled Garden (Above Exit) - "It is a complicated business." - Arthur Eddington, 1927
2:08
3
Entry Area, Walled Garden (In Outer Wall) - "Not one I would want to devote myself to, except for the society of true searchers." - Albert Einstein, 1924
0:26
4
Entry Area, Binares Squares Tutorial - "We should maintain the tension resulting from these two opposites." - Werner Heisenberg, 1974
1:02
5
Symmetry Island (By Fading Line Puzzles) - "Thus, my God, you are equally inivsible and visible." - Nicholas of Cusa, 1453
2:01
6
Symmetry Island (Near Beam) "It is only when you hunt for [the inner Light] that you lose it." - Yung-chia Ta-shih, circa 700
1:25
7
Desert Ruin (North of Digsite) "Serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people." - Albert Einstein, 1930
1:49
8
Keep (Atop parapet beyond the hedge mazes) - "Who is to construct the controlling environment, and to what end?" - B.F. Skinner, 1971
1:56
9
Keep (To the side of the first glass panel maze) "And you sit there smiling." Rabindranath Tagore, 1910
0:58
10
Keep (Behind Throne) - "Could an 'I' be more like an elusive, receding, shimmering rainbow, than like a tangible, heftable, transportable pot of gold?" - Douglas Hofstadter, 2007
2:29
11
Keep (Alley) - "Then [such a man] should have no time to believe." - William K. Clifford, 1874
0:56
12
Shipwreck - "He had acquired his belief not by honestly earning it in patient investigation, but by stifling his doubts." - William K. Clifford, 1874
2:24
13
Shady Trees - "[Zen] recognizes that previously accumulated knowledge [...] block the direct perception of reality." - David Darling, 1996
1:31
14
Shady Trees (Near Beam) - "Only listen to the voice of pines and cedars when no wind stirs." - Ryonen Genso, 1711
0:23
15
Monastery - "Acts of perception attach themselves only to veils, which leaves traces in the owner of the eye that perceives them." - Ibn Arabi, 1231
0:24
16
Jungle (Near Southern Docks) - "Life would be stunted and narrowed if we could feel no significance in the world around us." - Arthur Eddington, 1927
6:41
17
Jungle (Southern Peninsula) - "You are absolute from all things that can fall within any concept." - Nicholas of Cusa, 1453
1:40
18
Jungle Entrance (Left) - "We work with being, but non-being is what we use." - Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC
0:35
19
Jungle Entrance (Right) - "The two are similar, the affair is confused." Sahib bin Abbad, circa 990
0:28
20
Jungle (Near the Beam) - "If we did not have a doubt or recognize ignorance, we would not get any new ideas." Richard Feynman, 1963
2:05
21
Via Boat (Near Treehouses) - "There hung a darkness, call it solitude, Or blank desertion." William Wordsworth, 1888
1:11
22
Via Boat - "And so it is with man. If he could only roam empty through life, who would be able to injure him?" Zhuangzi, 4th Century BC
0:58
23
Treehouse (Northwest Shore) - "These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth." Rupert Brooke, 1914
1:21
24
Treehouse (Boardwalk that connects to the dock) "The surface of the sea is a gleam that can not be reached and the bottom is a darkness impenetrable." Niffari, circa 970
1:21
25
Treehouse (Green bridge positioned to the right) - "Don't even choose love. Choose silence, and love is apparent." Gangaji, 2009
1:19
26
Swamp (Coastal path around the back) - "It simply does not do to expose the workings of a joke." - Arthur Eddington, 1927
2:56
27
Swamp (Underwater, near the beam) - "It is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe." - Richard Feynman, 1963
1:53
28
Quarry (In an alcove Inside) "Those who seek out for it alone will reach it together, and those who seek it in company will perish by themselves." - Hugh Kingsmill, 1944
0:51
29
Town (By Reflector Panel) - "The clock never strikes the hour, save when the concept biddeth." - Nicholas of Cusa, 1450
0:27
30
Town (Chapel - Left) - "The God of the church isn't Big Enough." - Richard Feynman, 1963
1:54
31
Town (Chapel - Right) - "Enter thou into the joy of thy lord." - Augustine of Hippo, circa 400
1:54
32
Town (Bell Tower) - "They stop their ears and say they cannot hear Thee." - Hans Denck, circa 1520
0:50
33
Town (By Town Obelisk) - "The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe." - Albert Einstein, 1930
1:13
34
Bunker (5th Floor) - "[...] a human soul to a divine spirit." - Arthur Eddington, 1927
1:18
35
Mountain Ascent (From the path starting on southeastern face) - "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." - Albert Einstein, 1931
1:41
36
Mountain Ascent (Near Parabolic Arches) - "And you realize from that persepective that you've changed." - Russell Schweickart, 1975
7:56
37
The End (First Overlook) - "This is the wall of paradise, and it is there in paradise that you reside." - Nicholas of Cusa, 1453
1:28
38
The End (First Crossing) - "The relationship between the controllers and the controlled is reciprocal." - B.F. Skinner, 1971
1:57
39
The End (Past the First Crossing) - "Their [koans] common aim is to induce a kind of intellectual catastrophe." - David Darling, 1996
2:04
40
The End (Second Overlook) - "If I think while i paint, if I meddle, whoosh! Everything goes to pieces." - Paul Cezanne as related by Joachim Gasquet, 1921
2:33
41
The End (Bottom Floor) - "Looked at on the astronomical time-scale, humanity is [...] a new-born babe." - James Jeans, 1928
1:07
42
The End (By Exit Door) - "Sooner or later the pieces of the puzzle must begin to fit together." James Jeans, 1928
1:12
43
Caves (First level past the elevator) - "Why would I want a sandwich?"
2:16
44
Caves (Second level, past the wooden floor puzzles) "I'm recording this conversation right now"
3:21
45
Caves (Top level) - "No Sagan for us"
5:52
46
Caves (Past elevator towards swamp exit) - "So fun you don't even remember?"
3:05
47
Caves (In water near turntable) - "People are strange. Scientists are stranger."
3:26
48
Caves "Next thing I know you'll be taking over all the Cusa pieces." (Beneath the wooden town building)
2:14
49
Caves (Near desert exit) - "New country is revealed with its wonders." - Rabindranath Tagore, 1910
0:39
50
The Final End - "...And a Dream"
5:28
51
The Secret End - "To what palace gate have they brought me in the evening at the end of my journey?" - Rabindranath Tagore, 1910
0:45
52
The Secret End - Credits and Thanks
2:44
53
Windmill Video 1: “Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You”
3:50
54
Windmill Video 2: Videoclip from “The Character of Physical Law” - Richard Feynman, Cornell University, 1964 and “The Uncertainty of Knowing”
10:06
55
Windmill Video 3: Ending clip from “Nostalghia”
12:30
56
Windmill Video 4: “The Secret of Psalm 46”
58:07
57
Windmill Video 5: “A Lesson in Nonduality”
34:21
58
Windmill Video 6: “Simply Stop Looking”
6:23
59
Ambience
1:03:00
60
Anitra's Dance / In the Hall of the Mountain King
6:34

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