Out just yesterday is the 4th movement of the Electric Echoes cosmic tech opera, “We Are The Tech Of The Tech Of The Tech.” The complete opera will be 9 movements. This movement is about one form of life stemming from the next and being interconnected. Each mythological character in this movement embodies a realm, from the cosmic forces, microbes, to planetary bodies and people. And they each sing a stanza about their role in the cosmos. The plot thickens further in the next movement, “The Chorus Of Harmonic Minds Evolving Entropy.”
Although I have been using AI on lyrics for a techy flavor, I am proceeding on the next movements with entirely my own, as I am accustomed to doing. For the largest musical composition I’ve done yet, it’s been helpful to have that assist, but it’s more artistically satisfying to get back to the poetry since I enjoy the entire creative composition process.
Also already released on OCTAVES is the Artemis Amenti alt pop song “Status Quo.”
The song is about transcending limiting beliefs to live more freely and peacefully to one’s open ended potential.
Next Friday, Maunakea, a deep techno track is coming to Beatport, Spotify and more. This track is inspired by the tallest – submerged – peak on Earth and the “hidden” realms or worlds being revealed by science and technology, or the hidden worlds / ‘pocket universe’ of each individual and organism. Maunkea in Hawaii is also home to an astronomical observatory. Musically, the track reaches for low bass and high synth. The peak the track is literally a visual peak with the midi notes ascending in one part and descend in another creating also the visual of a mountain submerged in the ‘water’ of other notes.
Maunakea can represent what can be hidden in plain sight, like the deep sea. This is a great analogy for cosmic exploration as well, as different methods of detection scan different frequency ranges of the electromagnetic spectrum, to reveal what we can’t see from Earth.