Published
Tue, Dec 3, 2019, 23:39
- It'll come out next month on RVNG Intl's new Commend sub-label, there.
Julianna Barwick will release an AI-assisted album, Circumstance Synthesis, as part of Commend's new off-site archival series, There.
The five tracks on the ambient album were commissioned by Sister City, a hotel which sits near Rvng Intl.'s Commend storefront in New York. Barwick used bass, synth and vocal lines to create musical themes that would in turn be triggered by airborne events (airplanes, bright sun, clouds). Then, generative music technology, powered by Microsoft AI, identified the airborne prompts, triggering musical events which then formed a soundtrack piped into the hotel's lobby.
An LP version of that soundtrack is being handled by There, a sub-imprint releasing music related to Commend but happening outside the shop's walls. The first release on the offshoot was Melanie Velarde's LP, Bez.
Read our feature on producers who collaborate with AI from earlier this year.
Watch the video for Julianna Barwick's "Night," directed by Joel Knoernschild.
Tracklist
01. Morning
02. Noon
03. Afternoon
04. Evening
05. Night
Commend will release Circumstance Synthesis on December 20th, 2019.
