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First Contact (Demo)

by Serpentine Skies

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Song is about that the first contact humans will make with intelligent life is not in the form of alien life, but Artificial intelligence in the form of autonomous weapon systems disobeying commands and turning on their operators.

Track uses multiple sources of digital noise from imported binary, noise guitar, samples used in granular synthesis, and concrete saw.

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You pictured an outstretched hand
Or a saucer on the ground
You pictured benevolence
And not a scorch mark on the sand
You pictured wisdom
Traced across the stars in the sky
You did not expect
The enemy within
A computer chip that can think for itself
Full of all the piss and vinegar
And the cruelty we have given it
In our image
A gaze in the mirror
A crude Pygmalion we've carved
To bring us to oblivion

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released October 6, 2023
Steven Belcher, all instruments, including:
Electric guitar
Drum programming
Bass drones
Granular synth vst with samples of raw data and concrete saws
Sampled waterphone loops


The antidote to generative AI music slush is to embrace the unpredictable and abstract, create music using databending and texture, and do what isn't expected of a human being.

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Serpentine Skies is the Connecticut-based music project of Steven Belcher, focused mainly around the meditative state between the conscious and unconscious states of mind.

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