CONTEMPLATING AI
electric guitar, vibraphone, soundtrack
electric guitar, vibraphone, soundtrack
Contemplating AI is a duo for electric guitar and vibraphone with an electronic soundtrack, written for my guitar and percussion duo with my friend, Ben Phelps. The work features the electric guitar and vibraphone playing alongside an electronic soundtrack consisting of three elements: speech, synths and sound effects. The most prominent of these elements is an AI-generated spoken script about artificial intelligence’s possible impact on various industries and aspects of society, read and recorded by numerous individuals throughout the piece. Some of the issues express concern or ominous warning (autonomous weapons, racial impacts of predictive policing), while others are hopeful (health care applications); the intention is not to protest, teach or promote, but merely “contemplate.” These AI-generated contemplative statements are further accompanied on the soundtrack by AI-generated modular synthesizer parts, as well as various sound effects related to the subject matter.
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