Antiextinction, by Michael Bell

Antiextinction

by Michael Bell

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1.	We Sway in the Tides Above the Sunken Streets of the Graveyard Sea 12:02	buy track
2.	Our Holographic Avatars Accelerate in Vacuum, Not Programmed to Weep 11:02	buy track
3.	We Gather Around Screens to Watch the Last Glimmer of Dying Light 07:32	buy track
4.	Children Amuse Themselves by Tracking Their Prey Via Echolocation 05:47	buy track
5.	Tuning Through the Static We Hear a Voice from the Future, Warning Us Away 09:39	buy track
6.	We Stand in Dead Fields Watching Satellites Course Above Veils of Smoke 05:46	buy track
7.	Our Memories Appear as Luminous Clouds in the Depths of Our Translucent Skulls 09:23	buy track

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“I think of what wild animals are in our imaginations. And how they are disappearing — not just from the wild, but from people’s everyday lives, replaced by images of themselves in print and on screen. The rarer they get, the fewer meanings animals can have. Eventually rarity is all they are made of. The condor is an icon of extinction. There’s little else to it now but being the last of its kind. And in this lies the diminution of the world. How can you love something, how can you fight to protect it, if all it means is loss?”

― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

This is an album comprising live recordings of tweaks to generative modular synth patches as they run and evolve on their own...sort of a collaboration with chance. To keep the tracks intact as performances in time, I didn't edit or modify the results apart from a little EQ: what you hear is what happened. It's not completely atonal or random, but certainly on the "noise" side of the musical spectrum as no specific notes or chords were intentionally chosen.

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released August 28, 2021

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Michael Bell Bellingham, Washington

A Loose-Fish and a Fast-Fish, too.

Some of this is music for video games. The rest is a fairly raw document of my ongoing attempt to find something new among the blinking lights in my studio at home.

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