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Mushimushi, the multi-media collective who've so far brought us two Headcase albums (the brainchild of Curve's Dean Garcia) and the award-winning cross-platform CD-Rom musical game Soundbox, are proud to announce the arrival of Morpheus - Emergent Music (mushi 006). "Morpheus - Emergent Music" is by Various Artists - and is an extraordinary CD-Rom that remixes, regenerates and reprogrammes itself so that the tracks featured never sound the same twice. The programme used to enable this completely unique release to exist is called SuperCollider which is best known as one of the pieces of software that The Aphex Twin and Coldcut use to compose their albums. We say "unique" though because never before has an album been released that utilises Supercollider's ability to vary the output each time it plays - allowing you to alter the sounds used including the order of phrases, the beats, the length, anything. And lest, I need to say it again, each time one of the applications/tracks is started, it will remix itself and sound different from the last time it was played. It is an extraordinary development.
Morpheus - Emergent Music is available for Mac only and - like the best things in life - is absolutely free. This has been enabled due to the financial assistance of The University of Westminster and the benificient nature of the musicians involved -namely Lapdance, jnrtv, Alex Marcou, Mintyfresh, /f0 and Fabrice Mogini. If you really want to know, Morpheus... is a collection of music grown from algorithms - rules or processes which mirror the sorts of decisions musicians make every day like "decide on a beat". In contrast with a traditional CD however, "Morpheus..." combines contemporary approaches to music production with the sciences of fuzzy logic and artificial intelligence to create music that is ... alive. If you think of it like that, then surely the new Muse album features dead music ("Hang on a second, Phill, I think you've got a point"): we should be able to experience a truly great, fluid, musical experience only once and it's pertinent to suggest that only in the 20th century were we able to "fix" musical experiences as recordings. Indeed, I think you'll find that one of the "tracks" on Morpheus, namely 'iDab' by Lapdance actually produces drum and bass loops that change every minute, slicing up samples into new ever changing patterns for as long as its played. It's bonkers, mate.
Morpheus - Emergent Music is essentially a collaboration between six composers who wanted to break free. Wanna soundbite? When music history is written at the end of this century the concept of recorded music will seem quaint.
It's beyond
me, mate
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