matrix

matrix (mâ´trîks) noun
plural matrices (mâ´trî-sêz´, màt´rî-) or  matrixes
1.A situation or surrounding substance within which something else originates, develops, or is contained: "Freedom of expression is the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every form of freedom" (Benjamin N. Cardozo).
2.The womb.
3.Anatomy. a. The formative cells or tissue of a fingernail, toenail, or tooth. b.  ground substance.
4.Geology. a. The solid matter in which a fossil or crystal is embedded. b. Groundmass.
5.A mold or die.
6.The principal metal in an alloy, as the iron in steel.
7.A binding substance, as cement in concrete.
8.a. Mathematics. A rectangular array of numeric or algebraic quantities subject to mathematical operations. b. Something resembling such an array, as in the regular formation of elements into columns and rows.
9.Computer Science. The network of intersections between input and output leads in a computer, functioning as an encoder or a decoder.
 

10.Printing. a. A mold used in stereotyping and designed to receive positive impressions of type or illustrations from which metal plates can be cast. Also called mat2. b. A metal plate used for casting typefaces.
11.An electroplated impression of a phonograph record used to make duplicate records.

[Middle English matrice, from Old French, from Late Latin mâtrìx, mâtrìc-, from Latin, breeding-animal, from mâter, mâtr-, mother.]

matrix (noun)

mold: mold, matrix, mint
number: vector, matrix, tensor, quaternion
surroundings: medium, matrix
print type: flong, matrix

matrix

matrix (mâ'triks) noun
An arrangement of rows and columns used for organizing related items, such as numbers, dots, spreadsheet cells, or circuit elements. Matrices are used in mathematics for manipulating rectangular sets of numbers. In computing and computer applications, matrices are used for the similar purpose of arranging sets of data in table form, as in spreadsheets and lookup tables. In hardware, matrices of dots are used in creating characters on the screen as well as in print (as by dot-matrix printers). In electronics, matrices of diodes or transistors are used to create networks of logic circuits for such purposes as encoding, decoding, or converting information.  grid.

• _Animatrix_ DVD
  • episode _Final Flight Of The Osiris_
    • during the fight sequence, the soundtrack is _Conga Fury_ MP3 by Juno Reactor off of _Bible Of Dreams_ CDb on TVT/Wax Trax (1997)
    • big beat techno track _Red Bill, Blue Pill_ MP3 (192k) by Junkie XL & Don Davis off of _Animatrix Soundtrack_ (2003)
• release _Dream Matrix Telemetry_ by Zuvuya and Terence McKenna
 

• 604 release _Mama Matrix Most Myserious_ CD by Nervasystem & Aether on Elektrik Orgasm (1999)
• _Arouser_ MP3 (160k)
• _Triple Edged Ektoplasmo Funk_ MP3
• _Technicolour (Lost & Found)_ MP3
• _Gonzo_ MP3 (160k)
• _Beelzedub_ MP3 (160k)
• _Many Anamans Atomik Space Jam..._ MP3
• _... The Grinding Lenny Liquid Light Show_ MP3
• _The Self Transforming Machine Creatures Of Hyperspace_ MP3 (160k)
• _The Unknown Controller_ MP3 (160k)
• _The Klangummwandler_ MP3
• _Coda_ MP3 (160k)
• sample: "the many moments... when you feel as if, your own boundaries are dissolving... as if, somehow you're,  merging into the universe...  at the end, i felt a great weight had been taken off me... instead of feeling like it was the end of something, i felt like it was the beginning... like it was something had opened up... that things could be seen in a different light...

 

Neo: "I thought it wasn't real?"
Morpheus: "Your mind makes it real..."

lines sampled in 604 track _Fishbone_ MP3 (192k) by Mumbo Jumbo

"Hi. It's me. I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I imagine you can also feel me. You won't have to search for me anymore. I'm done running. Done hiding. Whether I'm done fighting, I suppose, is up to you. I believe deep down, we both want this world to change. I believe that the Matrix can remain our cage or it can become our chrysalis, that's what you helped me to understand. That to be truly free, truly free, you cannot change your cage. You have to change yourself. When I used to look out at this world, all I could see was its edges, its boundaries, its leaders and laws. But now, I see another world. A different world where all things are possible. A world of hope. Of peace. I can't tell you how to get there, but I know if you can free your mind, you'll find the way."

- original last monologue by Neo, in the end of the shooting script NOT used in the first _Matrix_

Matrix Mechanics in Quantum Theory

German physicist Werner Heisenberg, developed a different mathematical analysis known as matrix mechanics. According to Heisenberg's theory, the analysis was not an equation but a matrix: an array consisting of an infinite number of rows, each row consisting of an infinite number of quantities. Matrix mechanics showed that there were an infinite number of matrices that represented the position and momentum of an electron inside an atom.

• according to the documentary _Matrix Revisited_ (vhs/ntsc), in preparation for the part, Keanu Reeves was asked to read the book _Out Of Control_ (1994) by Kevin Kelly
• when Neo sells his illegal virtual reality programs to his customers, he shows us his stash - located in a hollowed out edition (i.e. simulated book) of _Simulacra And Simulation_ by Jean Baudrillard   - the chapter is "On Nihilism"
• Neo opens "Simulacra and Simulation" to the chapter "On nihilism," which has curiously been printed in the middle of the book, whereas really it is the last chapter of Baudrillard's actual book. And, also curiously, the chapter starts on the left-hand page, not the right-hand page as normal. In that chapter, Baudrillard asserts that revolution is pointless because the system that operates our hyperreal world will automatically and effortlessly neutralize it: "Everywhere, always, the system is too strong: hegemonic."

  Yet, Neo has sliced into that specific chapter with a knife, cutting out its substance and inserting instead a copy of his own software. Neo is rejecting Baudrillard's message, implicitly asserting that he can and will rebel against the system in order to achieve his enlightenment or "gnosis." This is an adumbration of what is to come in Reloaded and Revolutions. For Neo will discover that the organized escape of humans from the Matrix into Zion is simply a transfer from one virtual world to another, in precisely the manner anticipated by the Architect of the Matrix. But Neo will find a way to break out of this seemingly nihilistic prison. - Ray Kurzweil

• dark dub track _Simulacra_ MP3 by Meat Beat Manifesto off of _Subliminal Sandwich_ on Play It Again (1996)

• Morpheus: "Welcome to the desert of the real" - quoting Baudrillard.
• From the screenplay draft: Morpheus: "You have been living inside Baudrillard's vision, inside the map, not the territory."
• track _Post Post-Modern Man (Neo Post-Modern Mix)_ MP3 by Devo

• foreshadowing on the drug buy:
• Choi and Dujour - the goth couple
• DuJour is French for "Of the day."
• "Choix du jour" = "Choice of the day" or "Offer of the day."
• Choi: "Hallelujah. You're my savior, man. My own personal Jesus Christ."
• "Yeah, I know, this never happened. You don't exist."
• "It's called mescaline. It's the only way to fly."
• "Hey, it just sounds to me like you might need to unplug, man."
• the software company that Neo works for is called Metacontex
• When Neo gets into the car with Trinity and Switch for the first time, Switch calls him, "Coppertop" later on, you see Morpheus say "..all to turn humans into this.." and it is a Coppertop battery.

• "Keep clear": As the crew exit the loading dock of the building on the way to see the Oracle, two signs can be seen that say "Keep Clear". Window washers (played by the Wachowski Brothers) make the windows clear while Neo's boss talks. These can refer to seeing things clearly, seeing the matrix as the illusion that it is. Which requires keeping your head clear.
• "Neo" is a play on the "One"
• Carrie-Anne Moss (Trinity) played Liz Teel in the TV series "Matrix" (1993).
• 604 track _My Name Is Trinity_ MP3 (192k) by In R Voice
• In the first minutes of the film during the scene in which Trinity is chased by one of the agents and she leaps from one house to the next, an advertisement saying "GUNS" can be seen on the second building. The gun pictured in the ad is exactly of the same make and model (Israeli Military Industries' Desert Eagle) as the guns used by all agents during the film.
• In the movie _Higher Learning_ (1995), Laurence Fishburne's first sentence was: "Welcome to the real world."
• Cypher is a play on the name Lucifer - the devil.
• As Neo runs through the old lady's apartment near the end of the film, we see an image on the TV of a menacing man in a black suit coat. The image is that of one of the Number 2's from the TV show _The Prisoner_ (1967).  The person in question during the Prisoner clip appears to be George Baker, and the episode is the series' first, _Arrival_ (vhs/ntsc).  The character he plays in this episode (as did many others throughout the show) is "Number Two." Which fits in with the numerological symbology (Neo = One, room #s 101 and 303) seen throughout the movie.
   

• When Neo is calling to get extracted from the Matrix, he says, "Mr. Wizard get me out of here," a reference to the 1960's cartoon _Tooter Turtle_. Each episode, Tooter would yearn to be something he wasn't and have his friend Mr. Wizard (a lizard) wave his magic wand and make him an astronaut or a scientist or whatever.  Inevitably, Tooter would quickly get himself into trouble and call out "Help Mr.Wizard," and the lizard would intone "Drizzle, drazzle, druzzle, drome, time for this one to come home." Tooter would be transported back to his old self and be chided by Mr. Wizard to "be happy with what you are."
• The glyphs on the computer screens, with the exception of the call traces, consists of reversed letters, numbers, and Japanese katakana characters.
• All of the references to street corners (e.g. Wells and Lake) are real intersections in Chicago, USA, the Wachowski brothers' hometown. The subway train has signs for "Loop," another Chicago reference. The film however is quite obviously not set in Chicago or any other real city (though it was filmed in Sydney, Australia).
• Check out the room numbers for Trinity and Neo. When the cops bust in on Trinity in the opening scene the number is 303 ("trinity," 3) and since Neo is The One the number of his apartment is 101.
• When Neo is meeting with the Oracle, the music playing in the background in her apartment is Duke Ellington's _I'm Beginning to See the Light_ MP3. a reference to Neo's continued awakening.

 
 
• The Delphic Oracle/Sybil of the Sistine Chapel has three primary colors: green top, orange skirt, blue sash.   The Oracle's kitchen also has these colors: green countertops and orange cabinets.
• Cypher is called "Mr. Reagan" by Smith. Cypher says "I don't wanna remember nothing." Ronald Reagan notoriously said "I don't remember" during the Iran-Contra scandal (covert operations.) Cypher says, "I wanna be rich, you know, someone important. Like an actor." Ronald Reagan was an actor before he was President.  Cypher wishes to live a life of material decadence. Ronald Reagan presided over an era remembered for decadence, greed, and deceit.
• In the Oracle's waiting room, the television is showing _Night of the Lepus_ (1972).   "Lepus" means rabbit in Latin and also the movie has references to "follow the white rabbit".
• Names of people and objects have historical significance, all related to dreams and illusions. For example, "Morpheus"  was named for the Greek god of sleep and dreams; and "Nebuchadnezzar" (hovercraft in film) was a biblical king who was visited by troubling dreams.
• Anderson means "Son of Man," as Jesus is often called.
• Biblical interpretations continue: The name Thomas means "twin", but the apostle Thomas also had the epithet "the Doubter." Thus "Thomas Anderson" could be interpreted as "the doubting Son of Man." Or possibly "twin of the Son of Man," whichever seems more interesting. What earned the apostle this particular epithet was that he allegedly wouldn't believe the resurrection of Christ until he had put his hand into the wound in Christ's side. In the end of the movie, Neo dives hands-first into the side of Smith, who then (violently) sort of turns into Neo. So he put his hand into the side of himself, the Son of Man.
• When Neo is fleeing from the agents through a marketplace, one of the agents fires at him and misses, exploding a pile of watermelons nearby. This may be an homage to an identical scene in _Ghost in the Shell_ (vhs/ntsc).

 

• Coincidentally (or not), Matrix, Trinity, Morpheus, 303 and 101 are all models of music synthesizer (from various manufacturers).
• All of the good guys (Morpheus, Trinty, Neo, etc.) in the movie wear round or oval sunglasses. All of the bad guys (the agents, Cypher) wear square or rectangular sunglasses.
• The license plate number of the Agents' car is 70858.
• Nebuchadnezzar was a biblical Babylonian king who was instructed by god in dreams to destroy the inhabitants of Jerusalem because they worshipped false prophets.
• Fast forward  to the scene where Morpheus is talking to Neo on the phone in Neo's appartment, and Morpheus says "This line is tapped, so I must be brief."  As Morpheus is  speaking, immediately pause the movie as you observe the camera focusing in on Neo's desk.  Look at the the small package on Neo's desk. Notice that the writing on the label on the side of the package says "Oscar Wachowski."
• When Switch says to Neo, "We don't have time for 20 questions," Neo had just asked approximately his 20th question so far in the movie.

• The song that Neo wakes up to at the start of the film is _Dissolved Girl_ MP3 by Massive Attack.   Lyrics in that scene include: "'Cause I feels like I've been, I've been here before, And you are not my savior, But I still don't go, Feels like something that I've done before, I could fake it but I still want more."
• track used in the trailer: _The Eyes of Truth_ by Enigma, from the album _The Cross of Changes_. The part used in the trailer begins about 4:05 into the song.
• The brothers who helped the crew while they were in the Matrix, were named Dozer and Tank. Could this be a reference to "Fraggle Rock" (1983), in which characters called Dozers (who built things for the Fraggles) drove small tanks?
• The mobile phone used most of the time during the movie is the Nokia 88110i.
• The number of the phone Trinity was using at the beginning of the movie is 555-0690.
• On board the Neb, the crew eat their goop with sporks. (no spoons)
• In the final phone-call scene, after Neo stops the trace program, the screen says "warning - carrier anomaly"
• Reloaded: The appearance of the architect character may have been modeled after Norbert Wiener, inventor of cybernetics.
• Reloaded: To return to the Source, Neo must first go to the Keymaker, another program/person with "keys" to everything. The door to the mainframe, under intense security, can only be accessed for "just over five minutes" (until an alternate security system kicks in), or as the Keymaker puts it "exactly 314 seconds." This of course is a reference to pi, the only "anomaly" in an otherwise "perfect" system of numbers.

INT.  ROOM OF POTENTIALS (MATRIX) - DAY

As they enter the Oracle's apartment, you see a rack of collectable spoons on the wall.

The music playing in the background is _I'm Beginning to See the Light_ MP3by Duke Ellington.

Neo enters and finally understands the attention given to his age.  The Potentials are all little children.

The room feels at once like a Buddhist temple and a kindergarten class.  The children's heads are either shaved or thick with dreadlocks.  Some are playing, others meditating or practicing their gift.

Neo watches a little girl levitate wooden alphabet blocks.  A skinny BOY holds a SPOON which sways like a blade of grass as he bends it with his mind.

Neo crosses to him, sits.

The Boy smiles as Neo picks up a spoon and tries to imitate him.  Despite his best efforts, Neo cannot make it bend.

     SPOON BOY

Do not try to bend the spoon that's impossible, instead only try to realize the truth.

Neo watches as it curls into a knot.

     NEO

What truth ?

   SPOON BOY

There is no spoon !

     NEO

 There is no spoon ?

    SPOON BOY

Then you will see that is not the spoon that bends, only yourself.

Neo nods, again holding up his spoon.

He concentrates.  The spoon begins to bend just as the Priestess touches his shoulder.

     PRIESTESS
   The Oracle will see you now.

 Spoon Boy smiles.

• post rock instrumental track _Spoon Test_ MP3 by Mogwai
• track _The Potatoes Are Nearly Done_ by The Spoon Wizard off of _Believe Or Suffer_ on Functional (2002)
• indie track _Believing Is Art_ MP3 by Spoon off of _Girls Can Tell_ on Merge (2001)
• noise pop entity I Am Spoonbender
  • release _Sender/Receiver_ CD on Gold Standard Laboratories (1998)
    • _Reality Dealer_ MP3
    • _Hair Is Real_ MP3 (160k)
    • _Ears Are Merely Human_ MP3
    • _Replaced By Toys_ MP3
    • _Stopwatch Static_ MP3
    • _Slow Metal Fires_ MP3
    • _What Does The Water Think?_ MP3 (256k)(truncated 3:39)
    • _Teeth's Loan & Trust Company_ MP3 (vK)
    • _Spirit Photography_ MP3
    • _Waking Dream Seance_ MP3
    • _Parenthetical_
    • _Mr. Knife, Ms. Fork_ MP3
  • _Where Do Words Go_ MP3
  • _Infinity Limiter_ MP3 (192k)
  • _She Keeps Her Secret_ MP3
  • _Frozen Dog Futurist_ MP3

   

Matrix, The (1999)

Directed by
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski

Writing credits
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski

Genre: Action / Thriller /Sci-Fi

Tagline: On April 2nd, the Fight for the Future Begins

Plot Outline: A computer hacker suddenly learns from mysterious rebels that his whole reality is not what it appears to be at all

Cast (in credits order)
Keanu Reeves  ....  Thomas A. Anderson/Neo
Laurence Fishburne  .... Morpheus

• acid jazz ambient techno track _Black Morpheus_ MP3 (192k) by 808 State off of _Gorgeous_ CD on ZTT #104 (1993)

Carrie-Anne Moss  ....  Trinity

Hugo Weaving  ....   Agent Smith
Joe Pantoliano ....   Cypher/Mr. Reagan
Gloria Foster  .... Oracle
Marcus Chong  ....   Tank
Julian Arahanga   ....  Apoc
Matt Doran  ....   Mouse
Belinda Mcclory   ....   Switch
Ray Anthony Parker  ....    Dozer (as Anthony Ray Parker)
Paul Goddard ....   Agent Brown
Robert Taylor  ....   Agent Jones
Marc Gray   ....    Choi
Ada Nicodemou   ....  DuJour
Denni Gordon  ....   Priestess (as Deni Gordon)
Rowan Witt  ....     Spoon Boy
Bill Young  ....   Lieutenant
David O'Connor  ....  FedEx Man
Jeremy Ball ....   Businessman
Fiona Johnson  ....   Woman in Red
Harry Lawrence ....   Old Man
Steve Dodd   ....  Blind Man
Luke Quinton  ....   Security Guard
Lawrence Woodward  ....   Guard
Michael Butcher ....  Cop Who Captures Neo
Bernard Ledger  ....   Big Cop (as Bernie Ledger)
Robert Simper  ....  Cop
Chris Scott   ....    Cop

Andy Wachowski   ....  Window cleaner
Larry Wachowski  ....   Window cleaner
 

 Directed by
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski

Writing credits
Andy Wachowski
Larry Wachowski

Produced by
Bruce Berman
(executive)
Dan Cracchiolo
(co-producer)
Carol Hughes
(associate)
Andrew Mason
(executive)
Richard Mirisch
(associate)
Barrie M. Osborne
(executive)
Joel Silver
Erwin Stoff
(executive)
Andy Wachowski
(executive)
Larry Wachowski
(executive)
 

Original music by
Don Davis

Cinematography by
Bill Pope

Film Editing by
Zach Staenberg

Casting
Mali Finn
Shauna Wolifson

Production Design by
Owen Paterson

Art Direction
Hugh Bateup
Michelle McGahey

Set Decoration
Lisa Brennan
Tim Ferrier
Marta McElroy

Costume Design by
Kym Barrett

Production Management
Carol Hughes  ....   unit production manager

Assistant Director
Colin Fletcher ....   assistant director
Bruce Hunt  ....   second unit director
James McTeigue  ....    assistant director

Sound Department
Dane A. Davis  ....   sound designer,  supervising sound editor
Barbara Delpuech  ....   assistant sound editor
David Lee  ....   production sound mixer
Barbara S. Way  ....   assistant sound editor

Special Effects
Al Arthur   ....    effects animator: Manex Entertainment
Carol Ashley  ....   composite supervisor
Lynne Cartwright   ....   visual effects supervisor: Animal Logic
Steven Demers  ....   lead shader writer
David Dulac  ....   CG artist/colourist: Animal Logic
Kent Estep  .... bullet time technical director: Manex Visual Effects
Matthew Ferro ....  visual effects producer
Lindsay Fleay  ....  CG artist: Animal Logic
John Gaeta   ....   visual effects supervisor
Ben Gunsberger  ....   CG artist: Animal Logic
Michael Hemschoot  ....   CG creature animator (digital compositor)
Paul Katte  ....  animatronic prosthetics
Mary Leitz  ....  lead compositor
Justen Marshall  ....  CG artist/programmer: Animal Logic
Bob McCarron  ....   makeup special effects
Mark Nettleton   ....    composite supervisor
Nick Nicolaou   ....    animatronic prosthetics
Grant Niesner  ....  CG designer/animator
Jamie Pilgrim  ....   lead animator
Dan Piponi   ....  science officer
Declan Quinn  .... CG animator
Barnaby Robson  ....  visual effects compositor
Daniel P. Rosen  ....  visual effects compositor
John E. Sasaki  ....  Bullettime composite supervisor
Greg Shimp  ....   film recorder operator: Manex Visual Effects
Lewis Siegel  .... technical director
Janek Sirrs  .... associate visual effects supervisor
Daniel Sunwoo  ....  CG animator: Bullet Time Team
Paul Taglianetti  .... visual effects line producer
John Tissavary   ....  technical supervisor
 Jason Wardle  ....  CG technical director
 

Stunts
Glenn Boswell  ....  stunt co-ordinator
Todd Bryant  ....  stunts
Michael Corrigan   ....  stunts
Lou Horvath  ....  stunts
Dwayne McGee  .... stunts
Chad Stahelski  ....  stunts
Mick Van Moorsel  ....  stunts
Woo-ping Yuen  ....   stunt co-ordinator

Other crew
 Jason Bentley  ....  music supervisor
Phil G. Bloom  ....  assistant to executive producer
Justin Burdine  ....  data/resource manager
Godric Cole  .... set designer
Jules Cook ....  assistant art director
Michael Dawson Crawford  ....   post-production accountant (uncredited)
Geofrey Darrow .... conceptual designer
Ross Emery ....  director of photography: second unit
Judith Harvey  ....  set designer
Mo Henry  ....  negative cutter
Jacinta Leong  ....  set designer
Sarah Light  ....  set designer
Paul Moyes   ....  electrician
Craig Nersesian  ....  set-production co-ordinator (uncredited)
David Orr  ....  color timer
Phil Pastuhov  ....  wescam operator
Andrew Powell  ....  set designer
Deborah Riley ....  set designer
Greg Shimp  ....  film recorder operator
Mark Weingartner  ....  technical consultant: bullet time
Steven J. Winslow  ....  camera technician;  assistant camera: Wescam camera
Shun-Yee Yuen  ....  assistantkung fu choreographer (as Eagle Yuen)
Woo-ping Yuen  .... martial arts instructor

Production Companies
Village Roadshow Productions [us]
Groucho II Film Partnership
Silver Pictures

Distributors

Warner Sogefilms, S.A. [es] (Spain)
Warner Bros. GmbH [de] (Germany)
Warner Bros. [us]

Special Effects

Mass.Illusions, LLC [us]
DFILM Services [au]
Makeup Effects Group Studio (animatronic prosthetics)
Manex Visual Effects
Animal Logic

MPAA: Rated R for sci-fi violence and brief language.
Runtime: USA:136 / UK:136 / Australia:136 / Germany:136 / Japan:136
Country: USA
Language: English
Color: Color (Technicolor)
Sound Mix: DTS / Dolby Digital / SDDS
Certification: USA:R / UK:15 / Germany:16 / Hong Kong:IIB / Italy:T / Netherlands:16 / Australia:M / Norway:15 / Portugal:M/12 / Spain:18 / Sweden:15 / New Zealand:M / France:U

• 604 track _1200 Mics_ MP3 by 1200 Micrograms off of _1200 Micrograms/Growling Mad Scientists_ 12" on TIPWorld (1999)
•  sample: "you take the blue pill..." by Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne)
• 604 track You Create Your Own Reality_ MP3 by Space Tribe off of _Religious Experience_ on Spirit Zone (2000)
• sample: "do not try to bend the spoon... that's impossible... instead, try to realize the truth... then you'll see that it is not the spoon that bends... it is only yourself..." - Spoonboy
• 604 track _Equation_ MP3 (192k)by Altom off of _Fast Forward_ compilation CD on Neurobiotic #003 (2002)
• sample: "i know you're out there... i can feel you... i know that you're afraid..." by Neo (Keanu Reeves)
• 604 track _Loading Program_ MP3 (192k) by Biodegradable
• samples: "it is our loading program...:"; "it is the mental projection, of your digital self."
• 604 track _Digital Self_ by Systembusters off of _GMS vs. Systembusters_ CD on Spun #001 (2000)
• sample:  "Your appearance now is what we call the digital self image. It is the mental projection of your digital self."  by Morpheus
• 604 track _Drumatrix_ MP3 by Absolum off of _Deck Wizards - Enhanced Reality_ 12"x2 on Psychic Deli (1999)
• sample: "how did you do that?  you move like they do..." by Trinity (Carrie-Anne Moss)

 
 
• drum and bass track _Climate_ MP3 (192k) by Matrix & Fierce
• techno track _Bluepill_ MP3 by Pasquale Maassen
• techno track _Matrix Code_ MP3 by DJ G-Force
• noise track _Noisematrix_ MP3 by Merzbow off of _Hole_ on Heel Stone #001 (1994)
• post rock track _Latex Matrix_ MP3 (256k) by 33.3 off of s/t on Aesthetic (1999)
• track _Matrix Fire_ by KX Noizsystem KX006 (1995)
• ambient track _Matrix_ MP3 by Brain Pilot off of s/t CD on Nova Zembla #007 (1994)
• dark ambient track _Unconvincing Simulations Of Happiness Part 1_ MP3 (96k) by Black Lung off of _The Disinformation Plague_
• drill & bass trip hop track _Dub Matrix_ MP3 by TRS-80 off of _Backup: 01_ on Invisible (2001)

• IDM electro release _The Matrix Of Us_ CD by John Tejada on deFocus (2000)
• 4. _Can't Tell Time Anything_ MP3 (192k)
• 11. _Series Of Meaningful Movements_ MP3 (192k)
• _Matrix Reloaded_ trailer (quicktime)(70megs)
• _Matrix Revolutions_ trailer (quicktime)(33.4megs)
• _Matrix Bulletime_ ascii motion video (html)(4.5megs)
• _Matrix Ping Pong_ (flash) - live action "bullet time" sequence of ping pong
• cowtrix - matrix bullet time with cow (asf)(2.8megs)
• _The Meatrix_ (flash) - the matrix from animals' perspective within the meat industry - 'moopheus'
• _Matrix In The 70's_ video (quicktime)(35minutes)(87megs)
  • the future of filmmaking DIY style. spoofing and meme mixing at its finest. prequel to the first Matrix where you get to see an afro'd Morpheus get tutored by Icarus, accompanied by Infinity. Icarus is the one to find the one, that finds the one... see how Morpheus got his start by karate kickin' & nun-chuking his way through agent smith's... decent DIY effort with good editing and zero special effects.
• _Matrix Reloaded - freeway chase outtakes_ (wmv)
• Anomalog:
  • Reloaded
  • Trinity hAx0rs
  • The American Matrix
  • Wisconsin & New York Unplug From The Matrix
    
  • 'Matrix' Offers Law Agencies Faster Access to Americans' Personal Records
    • They Could Try A Little Harder With The Acronyms
  • Symbiosis Of Simulation/Real - i.e. Imagine Peace, Immortality & Abundance, & You Shall Receive
  • Jewel's Matrix Vibe - Sexual Pleasure Through USB Port
  • Fanimatrix: The Future Of Film & Fandom
    • Fanimatrix - Run Program - auckland fan matrix addon with no budget (mpg)(167megs)
• 604 track _Matrix_ MP3 by Amphasis off of _Aries Tunes_ compilation CDx2 on Aries Tunes (2000)
• 604 track _Navras_ MP3 (192k) by Juno Reactor vs. Don Davis off of _Revolutions_ soundtrack CD
  
• experimental techno track _Matrix_ MP3 by Reinhard Voigt off of _Clicks + Cuts_ compilation CDx2 on Mille Plateaux (2000)
• electro track _Bassmatrix_ MP3 (192k) by The Dexorcist off of _Bad Robot ep_ 12" on SMB #006 (2001)
• electro track _Enter The Matrix_ MP3 (160k) by Industrial Bass Machine
• synth post punk track _Plug Me In_ MP3 (vK) by Add N To X off of _Add Insult To Injury_ on Mute  (2000)
• trance track _Matica Matrix (Remix)_ MP3 (192k) by Chab on Undercurrent
• track _No Turning Back (Original Mix)_ MP3 (192k) by Elite Force off of _No Turning Back_ 12" on Whole Nine Yards #030 (2003)
  • sample: "right where you are, you are sitting in an electrical matrix of energy beyond belief of most human conception. it looks like it's going to be a good night."
• industrial IDM release _Matrix_ CDx2 by Haujobb on Metropolis #048 (1997)
  • industrial acid breakbeat track _Amplified Distance_ MP3 by Haujobb
  • broken beats drum & bass electro industrial track _Hyperflow_ MP3
• track _Matrix Noise_ MP3 (320k) by Oz Artists off of _Ooger_ CD on AE Recordings #001 (1998)
• 604 track _Geo-Matrix_ by Space Tribe off of _Order Odonota: Experiments That Identify Change_ compilation on Dragonfly

• Matrix As Shamanic Journey

"_The Matrix_ (1999) is structured by questions of multiplicity, time as the multiplicity of the eternal return, and subject as the kind of multiplicity that one finds suspended over the fracture of time. Deleuzo-Guattarian multiplicity is an assemblage that changes dimensions and mutates constantly, according to its own lines of fight. Real time is not concerned with the passing present, it starts when the present stops, it affects itself not with itself, but with becoming, and emerges as pre-time from a fracture between times.

Repetition is the power of the rhythmic idea that produces differences/intensities/disparities as its own excess. As the repetition of the future it has nothing to do with the return to the past. It begins with metamorphosis and forgetting - "Chaosmos" - a between chaos and order where structures form and dissolve. It is subject to its own rhythms that account for the intensities and original differences produced by repetition. In this complex the subject is the fracture between the virtual (idea/multiplicity) and the actual (individual/multiplicity) and the folding of one into/over the other. The human subject/identity is being suspended over the fracture of time.

The idea is repetition, Intensity produced by varying its metric. Leaving no memory behind, but passing back through chaos/oblivion, and re-emerging from the "crack/fissure time (ideas congregate in the fractured space and emerge from its environs, and the idea also "interiorizes" the crack/fissure and its satellite constituents) through the filtering screen of remembrance. It is correspondingly inherent of the predicate at issue and an absolute opening - the outside - because of its Mobius topology. Inside out, thinking ahead of itself, leaving itself behind, encountering singularities, it draws and binds and strategically diagrams the thinking line, folding the point.

Reality now would appear to exist in "amoment", a synergy of kaleidoscopic instants producing a mutable location - a proliferation of magnificent signs bathed in the light of their absence of explanation. Time can run simultaneously on different levels and at alternative speeds and directions."

FROM: the matrix: what is bullet time?
by Adrian Gargett, Ph.D.

references to _Through The Looking Glass_ by Lewis Carroll:
 

• "Follow the white rabbit."
• "I imagine that right now you're feeling a bit like Alice, tumbling down the rabbit hole?"
• "You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes." In the book, Alice falls into a hole which turns out to be really deep, she falls for a long time.
• Repeated mirror imagery ('through the looking glass') including a mirror covering Neo as he 'falls' into another world. Giant rabbits (movie _Night of the Lepus_) on TV in Oracle's living room.
• Red pill/blue pill: In the book, 'drink me' potion makes her big, 'eat me' cake makes her small. Jefferson Airplane's song, _White Rabbit_ MP3, "One pill makes you bigger, one pill makes you small." The Matrix, the red pill wakes you to a new reality, the blue pill makes you go back to your old life. - also, Jefferson Airplane got their start when original singer/songwriter Marty Balin recruited a band to play The Matrix, a club he was planning to launch in San Francisco in 1965.
• Coincidentally(?) 1999 is the Chinese Year of the Rabbit. One text calls it "A generally pleasant year which will bring new hope to the lives of many"

references to _Neuromancer (1984) by William Gibson

• In "Neuromancer," the place that Maelcum is from is called Zion. Maelcum is a big, "all natural" rastafarian that wouldn't enter the matrix -- much like Tank and Dozer.
• _Neuromancer_ was the first book to use "jack in" and associated terms to refer to using a computer network.
• The Matrix in _Neuromancer_ is the same as in the movie; it was totally real, and if you died in it, you died in real life (there was one character, "Dixie Flatline" who died, and his persona was recorded into a "construct" and used by the main character of the book as a guide).
• In _Neuromancer_ you hooked up electrodes to your forehead to jack in; in The Matrix, you plugged it right into your brain. Users of the matrix in _Neuromancer_ would strap themselves into their chair, so that they wouldn't move around too much while they were jacked in -- remember Neo jerking around during the fights with the Agents?
• In _Neuromancer_ the AI "Wintermute" was controlling the lives of a few of the characters via interacting with their electronic appliances, and they didn't really know it.

_Matrix: Reloaded_

Neo: And why would a program be deleted?
The Oracle: Maybe it breaks down. Maybe a better program is created to replace it - happens all the time, and when it does, a program can either choose to hide here, or return to The Source.
Neo: The machine mainframe?
The Oracle: Yes. Where you must go. Where the path of The One ends. You've seen it, in your dreams, haven't you? The door made of light?
Neo: [nods]

[...]

Architect: The function of the One is now to return to the Source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which, you will be required to select from the Matrix 23 individuals - 16 female, 7 male - to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash, killing everyone connected to the Matrix, which, coupled with the extermination of Zion, will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.
Neo: You won't let it happen. You can't. You need human beings to survive.

[...]

Councillor Hamann: Almost no one comes down here, unless, of course, there's a problem. That's how it is with people - nobody cares how it works as long as it works. I like it down here. I like to be reminded this city survives because of these machines. These machines are keeping us alive, while other machines are coming to kill us. Interesting, isn't it? Power to give life, and the power to end it.
Neo: We have the same power.
Councillor Hamann: I suppose we do, but down here sometimes I think about all those people still plugged into the Matrix and when I look at these machines, I.. I can't help thinking that in a way, we are plugged into them.
Neo: But we control these machines, they don't control us.
Councillor Hamann: Of course not, how could they? The idea's pure nonsense, but... it does make one wonder just... what is control?
Neo: If we wanted, we could shut these machines down.
Councillor Hamann: Of course... that's it. You hit it! That's control, isn't it? If we wanted, we could smash them to bits. Although if we did, we'd have to consider what would happen to our lights, our heat, our air.
Neo: So we need machines and they need us. Is that your point, Councillor?
Councillor Hamann: No, no point. Old men like me don't bother with making points. There's no point.
Neo: Is that why there are no young men on the Council?
Councillor Hamann: Good point.
Neo: Why don't you tell me what's on your mind, Councillor?
Councillor Hamann: There is so much in this world that I do not understand. See that machine? It has something to do with recycling our water supply. I have absolutely no idea how it works. But I do understand the reason for it to work. I have absolutely no idea how you are able to do some of the things you do, but I believe there's a reason for that as well. I only hope we understand that reason before it's too late.

[...]

Morpheus: Everything begins with choice.
Merovingian: No. Wrong. Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without. Look there, at that woman. My God, just look at her. Affecting everyone around her, so obvious, so bourgeois, so boring. But wait... Watch - you see, I have sent her dessert, a very special dessert. I wrote it myself. It starts so simply, each line of the program creating a new effect, just like poetry. First, a rush... heat... her heart flutters. You can see it, Neo, yes? She does not understand why - is it the wine? No. What is it then, what is the reason? And soon it does not matter, soon the why and the reason are gone, and all that matters is the feeling itself. This is the nature of the universe. We struggle against it, we fight to deny it, but it is of course pretense, it is a lie. Beneath our poised appearance, the truth is we are completely out of control. Causality. There is no escape from it, we are forever slaves to it. Our only hope, our only peace is to understand it, to understand the `why.' `Why' is what separates us from them, you from me. `Why' is the only real social power, without it you are powerless. And this is how you come to me, without `why,' without power. Another link in the chain. But fear not, since I have seen how good you are at following orders, I will tell you what to do next. Run back, and give the fortune teller this message: Her time is almost up. Now I have some real business to do, I will say adieu and goodbye.

[...]

Architect: Hello, Neo.
Neo: Who are you?
Architect: I am the Architect. I created the Matrix. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and though the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize it is also the most irrelevant.
Neo: Why am I here?
Architect: Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the Matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which, despite my sincerest efforts, I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden assiduously avoided, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably... here.
Neo: You haven't answered my question.
Architect: Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others.

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