CTM 2021: Mouse on Mars & Louis Chude-Sokei – AAI (2021, Презентация альбома)

On their recent album Anarchic Artificial Intelligence (AAI), Berlin duo Mouse on Mars collaborated with writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, a collective of computer programmers and frequent Mouse On Mars percussionist Dodo NKishi, to create an album that explores artificial intelligence as both a narrative framework and compositional tool. The duo enlisted AI collective Birds on Mars and former SoundCloud programmers Ranny Keddo and Derrek Kindle, who created bespoke speech-modelling software that fed text and voice from Chude-Sokei and producer Yağmur Uçkunkaya into the system, allowing Mouse on Mars to control and play their speech like a synthesizer. “We have to let AI develop qualities that we attach to humans, like empathy, imperfection, and distraction,” Mouse on Mars’s Jan Werner explains. “Not to avoid machines becoming competitors who will do things faster or better, but because we’ll stay stuck in our selfishness, fear and xenophobia if we do not open up to those new conce