No, They Dream of Us, by David Slowing

No, They Dream of Us

by David Slowing

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1.	Woke Up Awake 04:54	buy track
2.	Eternal 3 05:14	buy track
3.	Lucid 04:27	buy track
4.	REM 04:40	buy track
5.	Sleep I 04:46	buy track
6.	Sleep II 04:26	buy track
7.	Sleep III 03:25	buy track
8.	Close Your Eyes 08:43	buy track

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No, They Dream of Us is an answer to the question Phil K. Dick begged in 1968. It's a lullaby, the warm whispers of the artificial, putting us to sleep for reasons both benevolent and devious.

The album is inspired by the work of avant garde composers like Glass, Riley, Vangelis, Roedelius, and most heavily, Steve Reich. It was produced as a collaboration between producer David Plakon (Bedstudy, Wild Child, You Blew It!) and Artificial Intelligence. Using Google's Machine Learning tool TensorFlow, David fed the neural net pieces of work, which it then learned from to produce new melodies and rhythms. He then edited, reconstructed, and performed that output to form the final pieces.

The voices on the record are that of Amazon's Polly -- the voice synthesis engine behind Alexa. By programming Alexa via Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML), the AI is able to communicate to the listener. Then, David processed the output in a variety of ways, including using vocoders and autotune to stylize the voice.

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released May 10, 2019

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David Slowing Austin, Texas

David Slowing is a producer and musician currently residing in Austin, Texas. He makes ambient, evolving, and melodic compositions with the use of modular synthesizers, machine learning, algorithmic composition, sampling, and acoustic instruments, often around a theme or concept. ... more

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