On Saturday 3 January, Peter announced his new album o\i with the release of a new song called Been Undone;
‘I’m delighted to say that at the full moon, we will be beginning another year of full moon releases under the name o\i. The songs are a mix of thoughts and feelings.
I have been thinking about the future and how we might respond to it. We are sliding into a period of transition like no other, most likely triggered in three waves; AI, quantum computing and the brain computer interface. Artists have a role to look into the mists and, when they catch sight of something, to hold up a mirror.
With each full moon of 2026 a new song from o\i will be released, revealing the whole album at the end of the year.
Each song will come with differing interpretations in the shape of Dark-Side and Bright-Side mixes. The second mix will be released each month on the new moon and once again, Tchad Blake and Mark ‘Spike’ Stent will be handling the mixing duties, taking on the Dark-Side and Bright-Side respectively.
February – Snow Moon
Put the Bucket Down
LISTEN HERE
“As a side project, I am working on a show with the brain as the central core and there are a number of songs, some on i/o and some on o\i that will be part of that. This is one of those and it’s a point in the narrative where we can both read and write thoughts and the person singing is not sure whether he has his own thoughts or not. Is he inside his own mind or inside someone else’s? The ‘bucket’ is all the crap that goes around our head all the time, so it is putting the bucket down to find your way forward…”
“I’m delighted this month that we have an artwork created by Tomás Saraceno and 12 spiders who are credited with authorship on this. This work, integrating with nature and co-creating with spiders is fascinating. I think it’s a beautiful thing and somehow there seems to be a connection with webs and nature and the brain, so for me, it fits right in. In this case, Tomás heard the music and chose this image as something that he thought was appropriate.”
January – Wolf Moon
Been Undone
LISTEN HERE
‘The first artwork is a special piece from Janaina Mello Landini. The way she takes the rope and moves it out, unravelling it, is almost like fractals or tree trunks and looks like the brain in some ways too, so I see a lot of entry points.
I am delighted that Janaina is willing to participate and be part of the process. We are using one of her existing images for this month to open the whole proceedings but I’m excited that she’s now going to create a piece, especially for the song. That always gives it a little more excitement from my end to see what’s going to come up. Please do check out her work.’