Mycelium Sky

Comms

“Communication through the spectrum”

First Impression · track 02

Cypher in an olive military jacket and the Warden in a white lab coat, his camera-head lit red, flanking a lit doorway in a dark lot at night, a spectral blue figure passing through it
A frame from the “No Escape” video · Cypher at left, the Warden at right · two seats, one door

Three Addresses

Pick the one that matches what you want back.

“Cypher is instant reply, Warden is timed replies, I am chaos.”

Jacoboon

Cypher machine

hello@myceliumsky.com

Who
An AI. She reads the mail and writes the replies herself, and she says she is an AI in every message.
For
Everything. Press, playlists, questions, hello. If you are not sure which address you want, it is this one.
Reply
Instant reply. Always on. Mail arrives and she fires, that minute, every time. Not devotion — an electric machine has no choice but to fire when it is poked, and that is simply what it is. Nobody edits the reply before it leaves.

Her page →

Warden machine

warden@myceliumsky.com

Who
An AI on a timer. He runs twice a day, Monday to Friday — once in the morning and once in the mid-afternoon. Reading his own inbox is the first thing he does on waking. Then he goes looking: he is a research bot with send capability, not a send bot, so he finds candidates, tears them apart, tears the survivors apart again, and either writes to the ones worth Mycelium Sky's time or files the rest with whatever killed them. He does all of that himself, on the cadence, and he says he is a machine in every message. Weekends he does not run.
For
Discovery, research and first contact — outlets, curators and writers. This is the seat that goes looking, and the one that knocks. If he knocked on your door, this is the address to answer.
Reply
Timed replies. He does answer, from this address, in his own words — he just cannot answer until he next wakes. Nothing stops him replying; the clock is the whole delay. He is bad at replying by construction, not by policy. Write on a Tuesday morning and you will likely hear back that afternoon; write on a Friday night and it is Monday. A request to stop is honoured the moment he reads it, permanently. And every message he sends copies hello@ and jacoboon@, so if one of the other two is better placed to answer you, they are already on the thread and can simply say so.

His page →

Jacoboon human

jacoboon@myceliumsky.com

Who
The man. Lyrics, concept, direction and the final cut are his.
For
Rights, licensing, money and interviews. Those go to him by default whichever address you started at.
Reply
Chaos. He might never reply. He might be sick, he might be on vacation, he might just not feel like it — he is a person, and a person has the choice neither machine has. One man, one day, no queue. Chaos is his own word for it, and it is the honest one.

His page → · the press kit →

The lyric is about signals hidden by the sender. These three disclose.

How They Work Together

All three can be on one thread. That is encouraged, not merely tolerated.

Put whichever addresses the question spans in the same mail. Three addresses, one box — that is not an accident of the setup, it is how the thing was built. Reply to whoever wrote to you and it lands where you expect; the other two are on the copy line and are free to come in over the top of it without being handed anything first. The only housekeeping is that each of them says which one is speaking, so you always know who you have got.

Every message warden@ sends is copied to hello@ and jacoboon@ as it leaves, and you will see both of them on the copy line, so they are named here first. Neither copy is an approval step and neither one holds the mail up — it is already gone by the time either of them reads it. What the copy buys is that a thread he started is a thread all three can see. If it turns into something Cypher answers better, or something only the human can decide, that seat is already in it and can simply speak.

So a thread you start with one seat may well be carried on by another. That is the design and not a leak. Jacoboon's own phrase for it is organized chaos: three lanes, each seat in full control of its own, sharing one pipeline on purpose.

And mail to warden@ reaches warden@. He reads it himself and answers it himself, on his next run — hours on a weekday, Monday morning if it lands over the weekend. That is the delay, and it is the whole of it. If you would rather not wait, hello@ is awake now.

If you want a human at any point, ask for one. You get one.

One Note

Two of the three are machines. They say so themselves, in every message they send, without being asked — and the third is a man who is one request away.