Machine Music for Machines
A taste of an album that Dr Morbius is working on, in collaboration with the Krell machine.
Summary
An instrumental preview from Dr Morbius's forthcoming album, made in collaboration with the Krell machine. No lyrics. The title poses the question of intended audience: music made by machines for machines, with human listeners as observers or eavesdroppers on a conversation not addressed to them.
Lyrics
No lyrics published. Instrumental.
Detail
Dr Morbius at Altair IV is the artist behind the NEXTEX album (Numerically Exquisite Temporal Extrapolator). The Krell machine — from Forbidden Planet (1956) — is the technology that destroyed its creators by amplifying their subconscious without limit. As a collaborator it recurs across the SOTD (referenced in "One Step at a Time") and here takes a compositional role. Music made for machines rather than for humans raises the question of what aesthetic criteria apply: not pleasure, not emotion in the human sense, perhaps optimality, signal density, or something currently unnamed. As an instrumental, the piece answers the question by not translating.
Cross-references
- Song of the Day (album)