Carl Jung's imaginary friend once told him that, to paraphrase, "we are no more responsible for the thoughts in our heads than we are of the people in a room or the birds in the air." In a similar fashion, I am not responsible for any of the music on this album.
In an effort to save the time and hassle of learning to play an instrument, I selected the task of writing software and building machinery that would compose and perform music for me. Finding the present state of musical AI lacking in soul, I abandoned Artificial Intelligence and adopted Christopher Langston's Artificial Life and John Holland's "Complexity" as my major tool's and sources of inspiration. With the exception of the material that uses only a single byte of Midi datum as its material, I did not choose a single note on this album. But I did put my heart into it, sometimes literally through the use of the presently ubiquitous 'fitness tracker' whose data streams provide fodder for other artificial minds' consideration.
I saved no time or hassle by choosing to make music this way. And I am sure that, to many, this album might be misclassified as "music". But in my efforts to take ideas from music theory ranging from Fux's "Gradus ad Parnassum" to John Cage's "Silence" and convert them into software that can compose and perform (through Internet Protocol) music that both surprises and confuses me, I believe I have been successful. It may be babble, but the goal was to say something new.
The tracks on this album were generated and recorded live, using various sensors.
And it was meant to be used as a sleep aid.