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Case files
A case file takes one record and works it end to end — documented facts first, then what is observable in the work, then where interpretation begins. No account required to read any of them.
Rush Forensics
Hold Your Fire
Restraint, self-control, and the force held back. Force Ten, Time Stand Still, Lock and Key, Mission, Prime Mover, Second Nature, Tai Shan, Turn the Page, Open Secrets, High Water.
Genesis Forensics · Case 017
Duke
Performance, mediation, and the guiding voice. Behind the Lines, Duchess, Guide Vocal, Turn It On Again, Duke’s Travels.
The Deal · Case 001
Friend of the Devil
The devil loans twenty dollars, takes the same twenty back, and vanishes. The opening file of The Deal — songs where a bargain is named in the text.
Three written, many more decoded. The written case files are the slowest part of the work. Meanwhile 1,213 songs already carry their decodes in the song index, and the Devil’s Den holds 150 filed transactions across 92 artists. What is missing is the written investigation, not the evidence.
Where the rest lives
- The investigations — Rush, Genesis, The Police, Journey, Alan Parsons, Pink Floyd, Tool, The Who, and The Deal corpus
- Song index — every decode, filterable by artist
- Symbols — motifs that travel between catalogues
- Decades — the same records placed by release year