Columbus, OH

The Witness (Unofficial Soundtrack)

Release year 2016

Tracklist

1
Entry Area, Walled Garden (Rooftop) - "Searching for, but never finding, the builder of this house." - Unattributed
2
Entry Area, Walled Garden (Above Exit) - "It is a complicated business." - Arthur Eddington, 1927
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
4
Entry Area, Binares Squares Tutorial - "We should maintain the tension resulting from these two opposites." - Werner Heisenberg, 1974
5
Symmetry Island (By Fading Line Puzzles) - "Thus, my God, you are equally inivsible and visible." - Nicholas of Cusa, 1453
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
7
Desert Ruin (North of Digsite) "Serious scientific workers are the only profoundly religious people." - Albert Einstein, 1930
8
Keep (Atop parapet beyond the hedge mazes) - "Who is to construct the controlling environment, and to what end?" - B.F. Skinner, 1971
9
Keep (To the side of the first glass panel maze) "And you sit there smiling." Rabindranath Tagore, 1910
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
11
Keep (Alley) - "Then [such a man] should have no time to believe." - William K. Clifford, 1874
12
Shipwreck - "He had acquired his belief not by honestly earning it in patient investigation, but by stifling his doubts." - William K. Clifford, 1874
13
Shady Trees - "[Zen] recognizes that previously accumulated knowledge [...] block the direct perception of reality." - David Darling, 1996
14
Shady Trees (Near Beam) - "Only listen to the voice of pines and cedars when no wind stirs." - Ryonen Genso, 1711
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
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
17
Jungle (Southern Peninsula) - "You are absolute from all things that can fall within any concept." - Nicholas of Cusa, 1453
18
Jungle Entrance (Left) - "We work with being, but non-being is what we use." - Lao Tzu, 6th Century BC
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Jungle Entrance (Right) - "The two are similar, the affair is confused." Sahib bin Abbad, circa 990
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
21
Via Boat (Near Treehouses) - "There hung a darkness, call it solitude, Or blank desertion." William Wordsworth, 1888
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
23
Treehouse (Northwest Shore) - "These hearts were woven of human joys and cares, Washed marvellously with sorrow, swift to mirth." Rupert Brooke, 1914
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
25
Treehouse (Green bridge positioned to the right) - "Don't even choose love. Choose silence, and love is apparent." Gangaji, 2009
26
Swamp (Coastal path around the back) - "It simply does not do to expose the workings of a joke." - Arthur Eddington, 1927
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
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
29
Town (By Reflector Panel) - "The clock never strikes the hour, save when the concept biddeth." - Nicholas of Cusa, 1450
30
Town (Chapel - Left) - "The God of the church isn't Big Enough." - Richard Feynman, 1963
31
Town (Chapel - Right) - "Enter thou into the joy of thy lord." - Augustine of Hippo, circa 400
32
Town (Bell Tower) - "They stop their ears and say they cannot hear Thee." - Hans Denck, circa 1520
33
Town (By Town Obelisk) - "The human mind, no matter how highly trained, cannot grasp the universe." - Albert Einstein, 1930
34
Bunker (5th Floor) - "[...] a human soul to a divine spirit." - Arthur Eddington, 1927
35
Mountain Ascent (From the path starting on southeastern face) - "The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious." - Albert Einstein, 1931
36
Mountain Ascent (Near Parabolic Arches) - "And you realize from that persepective that you've changed." - Russell Schweickart, 1975
37
The End (First Overlook) - "This is the wall of paradise, and it is there in paradise that you reside." - Nicholas of Cusa, 1453
38
The End (First Crossing) - "The relationship between the controllers and the controlled is reciprocal." - B.F. Skinner, 1971
39
The End (Past the First Crossing) - "Their [koans] common aim is to induce a kind of intellectual catastrophe." - David Darling, 1996
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
41
The End (Bottom Floor) - "Looked at on the astronomical time-scale, humanity is [...] a new-born babe." - James Jeans, 1928
42
The End (By Exit Door) - "Sooner or later the pieces of the puzzle must begin to fit together." James Jeans, 1928
43
Caves (First level past the elevator) - "Why would I want a sandwich?"
44
Caves (Second level, past the wooden floor puzzles) "I'm recording this conversation right now"
45
Caves (Top level) - "No Sagan for us"
46
Caves (Past elevator towards swamp exit) - "So fun you don't even remember?"
47
Caves (In water near turntable) - "People are strange. Scientists are stranger."
48
Caves "Next thing I know you'll be taking over all the Cusa pieces." (Beneath the wooden town building)
49
Caves (Near desert exit) - "New country is revealed with its wonders." - Rabindranath Tagore, 1910
50
The Final End - "...And a Dream"
51
The Secret End - "To what palace gate have they brought me in the evening at the end of my journey?" - Rabindranath Tagore, 1910
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The Secret End - Credits and Thanks
53
Windmill Video 1: “Yesterday, Tomorrow, and You”
54
Windmill Video 2: Videoclip from “The Character of Physical Law” - Richard Feynman, Cornell University, 1964 and “The Uncertainty of Knowing”
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Windmill Video 3: Ending clip from “Nostalghia”
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Windmill Video 4: “The Secret of Psalm 46”
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Windmill Video 5: “A Lesson in Nonduality”
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Windmill Video 6: “Simply Stop Looking”
59
Ambience
60
Anitra's Dance / In the Hall of the Mountain King