Cycle I: Coming on Strong
The Hidden Voice
The Record · Contents
THE HOUSE OF ZAN — Zan
Cycle I: Coming on Strong begins with The Record, the first of four passages through The Hidden Voice.
These encounters move from the possibility of connection toward what happens when another person becomes real enough to create consequence.
Along the way, Interferences interrupt the main sequence and shift its perspective. Their placement marks where they enter the sequence.
Each piece can stand alone, and you can begin anywhere. Reading them together gives the larger progression more context. As the sequence continues, later encounters can change how earlier ones are understood.
The song in parentheses beside each title is its Companion Track. Each was selected to reflect, complicate, or extend something in the piece it accompanies.
For a little more context before taking in the passage as a whole, Starting The Cycle introduces the perspective and conditions that shape what follows.
Cycle I: The Record — Table of Contents
- Starting Point (Hello)… (1-1)
- Onward and Upward (Connection)… (1-2)
- Great Expectations (Cannonball)… (1-3)
- Sacrifice of Control (Fade Into You)… (1-4)
- Learning Through Experience (Hand in My Pocket)… (1-5)
- Objects in Space (Souvlaki Space Station)… (1-6)
- Your Submission: The Gift of Giving Yourself Away (Flower)… (1-7)
- What/ever (Do You Think I’m a Whore?)… (1-8)
- Reality of Fantasy (Numb)… (1-9)
- Broken Thing(s) (Violet)… (1-10)
- Getting Ahead (Spin Spin Sugar)… (1-11)
- From Darkness (To Bring You My Love)… (1-12)
- For What It’s Worth (Candy Everybody Wants)… (1-13)
- Earthbound Backtrack (Alarm Call)… (1-14)
- Saturn Return (New)… (1-15)
- Neptune Nowhere (In or Out)… (1-16)
- Jupiter Obsession (Dangerous Type)… (1-17)
- Uranus Joy (Ladykillers)… (1-18)
- Pluto Reversal (Never Say Never)… (1-19)
- Mars Bars (Naked Eye)… (1-20)
- Venus Breakdown (Bitch)… (1-21)
- Mercury Memories (Possession)… (1-22)
- Moon Shades (Shadowboxer)… (1-23)
- Sun Stroke (Sunny Came Home)… (1-24)
- Universal Truth (Here’s Where the Story Ends)… (1-25)
- The Great Beyond (Stars)… (1-26)
For a little more perspective after taking in the passage as a whole, Breaking The Cycle brings the experience to a close.
If one of these titles caught your attention, start there. If you want to see how the pieces change one another, begin with Starting Point (Hello)… (1-1) and read forward.
If you want to approach The Hidden Voice from another direction, choose The Blacklight, The Nerve, or The Hidden Girl.
For other rooms in The House of Zan, return to the House Map.
Elevator Music: “Theme from A Summer Place” — Percy Faith