In the Richard Powers novel Galatea 2.2, a cognitive neurologist and a novelist endeavor to create a neural net sentient enough to pass a PhD comprehensive in English literature. The machine, dubbed ...
French-Canadian composer Claude Vivier (1948-1983) is one of the few composers, perhaps the only one, to use an invented language throughout his entire compositional career. Vivie's use of what he ...
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Automatic Writing transforms involuntary speech into an ambient soundscape, conjuring four spectral musical "characters." Object Collection reimagines this on a stage of flickering monitors and ...