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BIOGRAPHYPLACEHOLDER TEXT

Provisional

skhul and bownz have known each other long enough that the story of how they met has been retold past the point of accuracy by both of them, in different directions. What follows is the version they can currently both sit through.


early
Two kids in the same orbit, both already making things nobody asked for.
later
First recording made on borrowed equipment in a room with bad plumbing and good reverb. Kept. Never played to anyone.
after that
A long gap, spent separately, learning the parts of this that cannot be learned together.
then
The name arrives. Not a place a billion light years away — a name for all of it, all the space there is, and for what a person can find out about themselves inside it.
since
Everything since has been the two of us plus whoever wanders in: flesh, cyborg, or strictly mathematical.

ON THE NAME

What billionlightyearland means

It is not a country, a planet, or a distant landmass. It is a name for outer space itself — the whole of it — and for what that stands for: limitless creativity, and finding out what you are by going further into it than is sensible.

Never capitalised. Not once, not at the start of a sentence.

STILL TRUE

Things that have not changed

  • Whoever has the idea has the floor.
  • The first version is kept.
  • Neither of us has ever won an argument about a snare drum.
  • We do our own separate work and it makes the shared work better.