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Recorded February 1993, York Street Studios
Writer/composer Shihad
Producer Jaz Coleman
album chronology

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Information

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Title

The name of the album was inspired by the book Hyperspace by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. It discusses how a future book about the discovery of supersymmetry should be entitled "The Origin Of Symmetry", due to its implications in physics, in reference to the explanatory impact Charles Darwin's "On The Origin Of Species" had on biology.<ref name="xfmdoc"/>. Matt said: "The name of the album, 'Origin Of Symmetry', is from a book about geometry of the universe and how it's all in beautiful balance, a perfect thing in ten dimensions. It explains all the mysterious forces we invented religions around.<ref>NME - Vengeance is ours! [November 2001] </ref>. According to Bellamy, "everyone’s been writing about the origin of life so now they’ll start looking at the origin of symmetry; there’s a certain amount of stability in the universe and to find out where it originates from would be to find out if God exists.”<ref>Rock Sound Spain 31/07/01</ref>

Recording

File:RecordingOriginOfSymmetry.jpg
Muse recording Origin of Symmetry

"New Born", "Plug In Baby", "Bliss" and "Darkshines" were recorded with David Bottrill in the middle of touring in late 2000, in Ridge Farm Studios, Surrey.<ref name="xfmdoc"/> The songs were recorded as if in a live situation, within a few days.<ref name="xfmdoc"/> The band later had to re-master the songs with John Cornfield after the tour was over, in order to make them suitable for release, as they were not satisfied with the mixing of these tracks.<ref name="xfmdoc"/> Matt attributes this to the effects of the hallucinogenics, which were "great for exploring new territory", but "certainly not good for finishing things off".<ref name="xfmdoc"/> The stripping down of these songs helped set the tone for the recording of the rest of the album. "New Born", "Plug In Baby" and "Bliss" were seen as the "backbone of the album" and provided a basis from which the band could be more experimental with the other songs.<ref name="xfmdoc"/>

John Leckie pushed the band to explore some of the more experimental ideas. Some of this took the form of using new percussion for particular songs, such as using a balafon, as well as animal bones and llama toenails on "Screenager".<ref name="xfmdoc"/> Matt felt this was necessary in order to for him to write the lyrics for the album.<ref name="xfmdoc"/> Classical music also began to have a great impact on the writing of songs for Origin Of Symmetry, particularly on the way Matt perceived music itself.<ref name="xfmdoc"/> The song "Space Dementia" was inspired by Sergei Rachmaninov, whose music Matt began to listen to whilst writing the album.<ref name="xfmdoc"/>

"Feeling Good" was included on the album because it was a piano based song, and was a favourite of a girlfriend Matt had at the time.<ref name="xfmdoc"/> The standard release of the album was also originally intended to include many songs that would later become B-sides, including "Shrinking Universe", "Tesseract" ("Futurism") and "Natural Disaster" ("Nature_1"), as well as unidentified songs entitled "Origin of Symmetry" and "Love Bleach".<ref name="mc20010215">Template:Cite</ref><ref name="mc20000719">Template:Cite</ref>

Pre-release

The promo CD sits in a flat plastic box with a Muse logo on it, which is held together by screws in two corners of the case. The aforementioned CD originally came with a perspex screw driver. Two versions of the promo CD were distributed in the UK. These two versions only differ in the plastic the box is made from; one tinged yellow and the other grey. A similar promotional CD was used in France, some copies of which were distributed in plastic boxes as with the UK version.

The track list on the UK promo CD has incorrect track lengths for all tracks, but the audio is identical to the released album. Unmastered promo CD-Rs were distributed in the UK and Germany. The Bleeb Unmastered and German CD-R promos are unmastered and have beeping sounds every few minutes to indicate the CD is a press preview copy. The unmastered promos feature uncut versions of the songs, for example, "Bliss" has a 30 second appregiated outro that is not featured in the released album version, and "Citizen Erased" does not merge into "Micro Cuts". Additionally the Exclusive Advanced Promo CD was distributed in Germany, and contains six faded song samples from the album.

Release

Origin of Symmetry was to be released in the US on the 28th August 2001<ref name="mc20010616"/> but the release was cancelled after Muse left Maverick. It was finally released in the US in 2005 after Absolution became successful there. It was the only Muse album not to be released on Ukrainian Records in Ukraine, and was instead released directly under Motor. Thus, it did not have a promotional cassette like other Ukrainian Muse releases.

The album was originally released as a CD-ROM with the MuseTV feature linked to online bonus material. This later ceased to function once the MuseTV media had been removed from the Internet. The CD was available in either a digipak or jewel case.

The album has gone Gold in the UK, with sales over 100,000.

Origin of Symmetry was reissued in double 12" vinyl on the 18th of August, 2009 to commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the debut album, Showbiz.

Artwork

In a 2001 interview, Matthew Bellamy stated that the artwork is "a collection of the work of 14 artists who’ve all been given that same title, so even though each piece is in a radically different style, you get a sense of there being some form of continuity through different people’s perceptions of the same theme."<ref>Rock Sound Spain 31/07/01</ref>

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The Muse logo set in Helvetica that appears on Origin Of Symmetry (above), and the regular Muse logo set in Frutiger as seen on all other releases (below)

The album art displays a slightly irregular version of the Muse logo. While the regular one utilizes the Frutiger Black typeface, this altenate version is set in Helvetica Bold.

Track list

CD, promo CDs

  1. New Born
  2. Bliss
  3. Space Dementia
  4. Hyper Music
  5. Plug In Baby
  6. Citizen Erased
  7. Micro Cuts
  8. Screenager
  9. Darkshines
  10. Feeling Good
  11. Megalomania

Vinyl

A
  1. New Born
  2. Bliss
B
  1. Space Dementia
  2. Hyper Music
  3. Plug In Baby
C
  1. Citizen Erased
  2. Micro Cuts
  3. Screenager
D
  1. Darkshines
  2. Feeling Good
  3. Megalomania

JP CD

  1. New Born
  2. Bliss
  3. Space Dementia
  4. Hyper Music
  5. Plug In Baby
  6. Citizen Erased
  7. Micro Cuts
  8. Screenager
  9. Darkshines
  10. Feeling Good
  11. Futurism
  12. Megalomania

JP promo CD

  1. New Born
  2. Hyper Music
  3. Feeling Good
  4. Bliss
  5. Plug In Baby

Unmastered press preview, unmastered UK CD-R, German promos

All tracks are unmastered and unblended versions

  1. New Born
  2. Bliss
  3. Space Dementia
  4. Hyper Music
  5. Plug In Baby
  6. Citizen Erased
  7. Micro Cuts
  8. Feeling Good
  9. Screenager
  10. Darkshines
  11. Megalomania

Exclusive advanced promo CD

All tracks are faded samples

  1. New Born
  2. Bliss
  3. Plug In Baby
  4. Citizen Erased
  5. Feeling Good
  6. Darkshines

MuseTV enhanced element master

  1. MuseTV

Personnel

Muse

  • Matthew Bellamy - lead vocals, lead and rhytm guitars, piano, keyboards, Wurlitzer piano (track 10), pipe organ (track 11), strings arragement, production, mixing

  • Chris Wolstenholme - bass, backing vocals, double bass (track 10), vibraphone, production, mixing

  • Dominic Howard - drums, percussion, production, mixing


    • Guest musicians

  • Jacqueline Norrie - violin

  • Sara Herbert - violin

  • Clare Finnimore - viola

  • Caroline Lavelle - cello


    • Additional personnel

  • David Bottrill - production and engineering (tracks 1, 2, 5 and 9)

  • John Leckie - production and engineering (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11)

  • Ric Peet - engineering (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11)

  • Steve Cooper - additional engineering and programming (tracks 1, 2, 5 and 9)

  • Chris Brown - additional engineering and programming (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11)

  • Mark Thomas - assistant engineering (tracks 2, 4, 5 and 7)

  • Claire Lewis - assistant engineering (tracks 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 10 and 11)

  • Damon Iddins - assistant engineering

  • Mirek Styles - assistant engineering

  • John Cornfield - mixing

  • Ray Staff - mastering

  • William Eagar - artwork

    • Second album recording gallery

    (via microcuts.net)

    Album artwork

    Origin Of Symmetry Gallery

    Spread Gallery

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    Interview Promo

    File:Interview Disc front cover.jpg
    Front cover
    File:Interview Disc interior and disc.jpg
    Interior and disc
    File:Interview Disc back cover.jpg
    Back cover

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    A promo CD featuring an interview with the band.

    Track list

    1. Introduction...
    2. Have you always been deadly serious about music...
    3. Answer
    4. You were very young when you first got together...
    5. Answer
    6. Growing up in a rural area...
    7. Answer
    8. First gig together...
    9. Answer
    10. Do you remember any of the songs you played...
    11. Answer
    12. When were Muse born...
    13. Answer
    14. Who came up with the name Muse...
    15. Answer
    16. Doggy names...
    17. Answer
    18. Is this the perfect line up...
    19. Answer
    20. America happened first...
    21. Answer
    22. States for the first time...
    23. Answer
    24. Madonna...
    25. Answer
    26. Different record deals in different places...
    27. Answer
    28. Does it not get complicated...
    29. Answer
    30. Hell for release schedules...
    31. Answer
    32. Two independent EPs...
    33. Answer
    34. Glorified demos...
    35. Answer
    36. John Leckie...
    37. Answer
    38. Dave Bottrill...
    39. Answer
    40. The second album...
    41. Answer
    42. Different locations for recording...
    43. Answer
    44. Touring with Foo Fighters & Chili Peppers...
    45. Answer
    46. Felt like rock stars...
    47. Answer
    48. Did you get on well with bands...
    49. Answer
    50. How did you go down...
    51. Answer
    52. Do you feel part of some sort of scene...
    53. Answer
    54. A particularly English sound...
    55. Answer
    56. T in the Park...
    57. Answer
    58. Festival crowds...
    59. Answer
    60. Hectic schedule...
    61. Answer
    62. End of tour...
    63. Answer
    64. All over the world again...
    65. Answer
    66. Separate reality from fantasy...
    67. Answer
    68. You've known each other for so long...
    69. Answer
    70. How Spinal Tap has it got...
    71. Answer

    References

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    See also

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