midi machine music
buttress o'kneel - punk princess of plunderphonics - has taken Lou Reed's 1975 groundbreaking proto-noise album METAL MACHINE MUSIC, and rammed it through an online wav-to-midi converter.
this has resulted in 4 pieces which are (pretty much) the same frequencies as the original, but entirely replicated with shitty fake piano midi sounds.
no humyn decisions were made - this is proper "machine music", with the files being interpreted entirely by online software, and the sounds replaced completely automatically.
MIDI MACHINE MUSIC is one part loving homage, one part ironic tribute, one part artificial intelligence, one part lazy button-pushing, one part 45th birthday celebration, and one part absurdist commentary on the nature of music, legacy, fame, spectacle, creativity, idol-worship, and the role of the composer.
FROM THE LINER NOTES:
"Is music created by machines, then converted into other sounds by other machines 45 years later, even actually music?
Would Lou Reed like it? Would he feel offended?
Did Buttress even
listen to it herself?
Or did she just press "convert" and then "upload"?
Is computer-generated music even for humyns to listen to in the first
place?
Or is music made by machines really only for other machines to
appreciate?
In which case, by feeding Metal Machine Music into an
online MIDI converter, was Buttress actually playing the music to its
intended audience - other machines?"
MIDI MACHINE MUSIC is available for free here:
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