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Duration: 10:38

Medium: Audio-visual (electroacoustic audio with accompanying visuals)

Technical Specifications: .wav 48kHz 7.1 surround audio, HD 1080p video

Year: 2022

As the second part of two works of mine exploring digital connectivity and musical Artificial Intelligence systems, This [BLANK] has been deleted draws from a variety of inspirations including, glitch, horror, and cinematic sound design. Thematically, the piece explores concepts around the ephemeral yet consequential nature of our modern digital lives, and begins by examining the hidden online rage that emerges from the protection of anonymity.

Creation of the piece began by interfacing with an artificial intelligence system named Av3ry, feeding it samples and allowing it to arrange the results in increasingly complex patterns. These patterns ultimately produced what I call, ‘Digital Sludge’ — low-quality, reverb soaked, distorted samples that came to represent the endless stream of mindless, clickbait content we are bombarded with on a daily basis online. 

The latter half of the piece shifts to examining this video content, which is increasingly generated by AI in order to fulfill another AI or algorithm’s demands for views and clicks. We are but helpless bystanders in this increasingly automated process, with some of us going to ridiculous lengths to feed the algorithmic machine and remain ‘relevant’.