Noise-scape? Electro-acoustic? Self-indulgent cacophony? You decide! A note on the catalog number (uku8): I number my projects from when they start, not when they're finished, and this is the eighth project I started after adopting that scheme. The bare bones of it were sketched out in 2006, but I just recently resurrected it and got it together to fill it out and finish it off.

The title refers to the fact that, per our current best cosmological science, the universe is expanding at an accelerating rate. As it expands, fewer and fewer regions of it will be within such a distance that light from objects in them can ever reach us; hence the parts of the universe that can know about each other will inevitably wane over time. As is usual with my work, this track actually has nothing to do with any of that, but I've wanted to use that phrase as the title of something for quite a long time.

One more factoid: only a few of the sounds used in this track were actually produced by insects! Most of the insectoid sounds just wound up that way accidentally.