In the summer of 2001 Terry Barth (also known as Cyclolith and Terry Malone) had carefuly watched him self closely in the experimentation of dream documentation. He had spent the entire summer breaking away from social aspects and locking himself into sleep and thin sheets of paper documenting his dreams from either what he could remember or what he had recorded on the mini-cassette recorder beside his bed. After a while though, he had decided to push it from an opposite spectrum.

The Goal: stay awake for 14 days straight and document his mental stability and creativity through art, writing, and music. In the long run music seemed the most detourant from sleep, thus he made 5 albums in the term of those two weeks.

This was a brief documentation of his notes:

I had kept my goal quiet amongst those who I was socially acquainted with, considering I had a job, and technically remained awake for 13 days and created the Vertebrae Institute's 5 part series.....

Five Albums: 1. Cloud Conglumary: the more lucid era of thought. the mere realization of delirium blooming. pointing fingers at the sun and expecting everyone to look.

This album, made within the first 4 days, is the most accessible of the five focusing on more of the craft of the album and less intuition while remaining in a test of stamina to get past my body rejecting my mind's decision.

2. Cyclolithic Comas: i have hit home and it stood proud. blink and you will no longer chance sleeping. pointing fingers at anything will make me look.

This album had drifted a bit from its previous. This is within the 6th and 10th days I had turned to the instruments as an endurance architect to keep me standing. Considering the case, this album is bolder than Cloud Conglumary and yet more experimented on. During this time my thoughts were mostly in fragments and my hallucinations had developed to a noticeable degree. After I had regained myself in the months later I had found a passion that I fell in love with and decided to use that to create music more intuitive with a projector behind my imagination. Little did I know that this specific process would grow into an entity known as Cyclolith (www.myspace.com/cyclolith)and develop from there on for the next 5 years.

3. Soetic Plang: seppuku would help me stay awake. persistent thoughts that rely on forgetfulness. it's hard to see what you're pointing at without looking through your eyes.

And now I had flipped my drift. Hallucinations have developed clear and the only way I can stay awake is if I repeat this rhythm: start drinking coffee, smoke more cigarettes.... call off of work, don't leave the house... only cold water, drinking and shower.... speak only in humor, seriousness is not easy to believe.

A lot of this album had repeated rhythms and mind wrenching bends that had sent me to focus only it, not on my lack of sleep. This is where I began to give in to my insanity and allow my weakness sing. I had given up a couple times and tried to sleep, but couldn't what so ever. This is the process between day 11 and day 13.

4. Midnight Sun/Staticsphere Nub Grain: blur

Day 13. I had tried to express my mind through music accurately considering I had felt dead. The death of all time and poise. i was a moment of clarity that had lost all relavence, I had become indiginous and that is that. It was over..... I made 4 songs and would lie down with valerian root and find myself awake 6 hours later. 6 hours later to create..........................

5. The Breast of Vertebrae Institute

All of the moments that seemed significant in the entirety of my experiment that were shaped into song I had put into a conscious order for memory pleasure. Cut the segway... the silver screen was slightly cleaned and I could see my reflection in it.

After all the albums I vowed to never regret that experience and to never experience it again. My musical focus is more dedicated and has a promising frame.

On the 15th day I slept 17hrs. All the music consisted of a Kawai K1 keyboard, DR-660 Drum Machine, an imitation Fender guitar, Flute, samples of random friends who decided to stop by in the progress of the project was recorded with an internal monitor mic into a cheap 1998 Compaq computer, Radioshack mic, Acid Pro, and everything was manipulated in some way or another with Goldwave. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.