This album constitutes the entire musical part of a large-scale live audiovisual performance piece based around the actions and decisions of whistleblower Edward Snowden, with the visuals included as downloadable content. Matthew Collings is a Scotland-based composer who collaborates regularly with artists from all kinds of fields including Dag Rosenqvist from Jasper, TX and Denovali labelmate Talvihorros. He's responsible for several installations using custom-made software, which have been exhibited at Burning Man Festival in San Francisco and Glasgow's Centre for Contemporary Arts. His work for film includes a specially-commissioned live score for Dziga Vertov's 1929 silent classic, The Man with the Movie Camera, and an invitation to work on The Invisibles, a commission from Amnesty International.