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Remember how everyone seemingly got all up on Grimes for saying AI will replace musicians? Well, actually that may not have been her exact wording or sentiment, however, if the Age of Spiritual Machines is soon then Grimes may not be too far from the truth (IMHO). AI has definitely played into my curious imagination since picking up and reading my first Science Fiction story. So, for the past several years I have, behind the scenes been studying and taking workshops in Machine Learning. In 2003 I created Transgenic Morphosis with collaborators/artists, Steve Storz (storzart.com) and Andrei Gravelle. Not really thinking about it at the time we built pods that highly resembled what would later hit the market as Oculus Rift headsets. Ours, however, encased Super 8 loops, and stereoscopic images (it was '03 after all). Not too long after that installation, I dove into a Transhumanist movement and read more Kurzweil, Negroponte.. Gibson ;p I guess my thoughts here are: I've been studying ML/AI since learning html/java/action script and discovering Jaron Lanier's VR work in the 90's.

Fungal AI was created from biodata collected from Pleurotus ostreatus mycelium. Bio-sonification through Ableton Live then given to an AI that took the rendered bio-sonification as an influence, and through random zeros and ones delicately spat out this composition (so to speak). I then brought this new data into Live and layered over the original biodata, added some delay and reverb here and there - don't judge me! It's a start!

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from Midnight Mushroom Music, released March 26, 2020
Pleurotus ostreatus for their bio-sonification.
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nanotopia Toronto, Ontario

Tosca Terán and Andrei Gravelle have been collaborating since 2000.
Together they envision Nanotopia.
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Terán, and Gravelle construct optimistic & dystopian future visions; drawing awareness to the destruction of our oceans, breathable air, and shared environment. How even the very act of observing a thing, changes that thing forever. ... more

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