Music
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Artificial Absolutes Theme Song
The theme song for Artificial Absolutes, with lyrics by the author. This piece was produced and performed by Alexi Armandsen / Project A-Star 
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Lyrics Video:
Lyrics:
[INTRO] Project A-Star This is Project A-Star Whoa... Whoa... [VERSE 1] Controlled from creation, Starships soar, minds don't change I see total prostration Before manmade absolutes Reaching expectation Perfect, cold, like a stone Is there no salvation? I can't run from myself [CHORUS] I'm so lost in a world of artificial absolutes Everything seems so real in these artificial absolutes How can I be me in these artificial absolutes? Can anyone save me from these artificial absolutes? [VERSE 2] Soul is sacrificial To the god Perfection Actions so judicial All correct, always blessed A flawless superficial Losing what's left of me For being artificial Doesn't take synthetic skin [CHORUS] x 3 |
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Story
"Story" is the song sung by the character Sarah DeHaven in Artificial Absolutes. The lyrics serve as an introduction to some of the novel's ideas. This track is the author's rendering of the song, with vocals performed by American soprano Joanna Schnurman (verses) and Mary Fan (interlude/echoes). 
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Lyrics:
Story older than the skies, It's been told ten thousand times, Not the first, won't be the last, Same old tale in different rhymes. Still, there's something to be said Maybe something to be heard Faiths adrift in falsehoods found Meanings lost within a word Games of fate and games of choice, Twisted, tangled, intertwined, Who is right, and what is real? All shall fade within a mind. Now they fall, and now they rise. Sense breaks down, and silence fails. Language dies in rage untold. Words may end, but song prevails. [Wordless interlude] Story older than the skies, It's been told ten thousand times, Not the first, won't be the last, Same old tale in different rhymes. Tell the story one more time… Tell the story one more time... |
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Trailer Soundtrack
Soundtrack from the Artificial Absolutes book trailer, based on the song featured in the novel. 
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Lyrics:
Story older than the skies... Games of fate and games of choice, Twisted, tangled, intertwined, Who is right, and what is real? All shall fade within a mind. |
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Jane's Motet for the Absolute
Jane Colt, the protagonist of Artificial Absolutes, dreams of being a composer. The description of the motet she writes as a musical offering to the Absolute Being was based on the Liber scriptus movement from Mary Fan's Requiem. This piece was performed by the Princeton University Chapel Choir in Spring 2010. 
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Lyrics presented in the novel:
The Judge shall come, thus all revealing; No thing unseen remains concealing. Actual text from the Requiem Mass:
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