Fungal AI

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 than 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 learning about Jaron Lanier. Fungal AI was created from biodata collected from 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 ;p Thanks for listening.