Artwork for Binary Emotions — Lise SterlingTrack 07

Lise Sterling · VIRTUAL ARTIST

Assembly Instructions

Binary Emotions · 4:06 · Electronic

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WITHIN THE ALBUM

Feelings that refuse the instructions.

Binary Emotions imagines an inner life described in the language of everyday technology and commerce. Weather Report for My Heart, Assembly Instructions, and Return Policy become labels for a world where we sometimes wish we knew how a feeling works.

Lise, the label’s virtual character, explores the gap between these instruction manuals and what escapes them. Muscle Memory, Midnight Math, and Constellation Prize suggest other ways of counting, remembering, and staying close. This chapter prepares the ground for the traces and absences of Phantom Signals.

Weather Report for My Heart opens the album. Continue in order to explore the fourteen objects of this imaginary diary.

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Original lyrics

Text supplied in the project files. The original language is preserved.

Bought this heart from IKEA
Came in pieces, no surprise
Swedish name I can't pronounce
But the picture looked so nice
Step one says "lay out all the parts"
But I'm missing screws for trust
Step two needs two people minimum
When I'm here alone with dust

Allen key can't fix what's broken
Some assembly required
But the manual's in a language
That I've never quite acquired

These assembly instructions for love
Don't match what's in the box
These assembly instructions for love
Won't work around my blocks
I've been following the pictures
But it never looks the same
These assembly instructions for love
Are driving me insane

Hardware store of broken dreams
Searching for replacement parts
Warranty expired on feelings
Return policy on hearts
YouTube tutorial for healing
But the comments are all mean
Every relationship's custom built
Nothing fits my machine

Power drill can't force connection
Hammer breaks what it should mend
Some projects aren't worth finishing
Some stories need to end

These assembly instructions for love
Don't match what's in the box
These assembly instructions for love
Won't work around my blocks
I've been following the pictures
But it never looks the same
These assembly instructions for love
Are driving me insane

Threw away the instruction manual
Started building from the heart
Glue and tape and pure intention
Sometimes falling apart's an art
Maybe love's not flat-packed
Maybe it can't be designed
Maybe the best things in life
Are the ones you build blind

No more assembly instructions for love
I'm building it my way
No more assembly instructions for love
Making it up every day
I'll be trusting my intuition
Let it look however it may
No more assembly instructions for love
I'm throwing the manual away
Yeah, I'm throwing the manual away

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