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Dynamics

by Forces

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RHex 03:30
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SpotMini 04:35
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RiSE 04:02
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Cheetah 03:29
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Handle 03:11
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PETMAN 03:57
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You see a robot dog standing on four legs in front of a man holding a long stick. The man tries violently to knock the robot off balance. The robots sways back and forth, still holding its ground. You feel empathy towards the thing, while nonetheless recognizing it as an artificial being. It’s uncanny. Perhaps it’s the lifelike movement of the robot that tricks our brain into recognizing it as a living thing.

The robot in question is a prototype of Boston Dynamics, one of worlds most advanced robotics manufacturers. The company has strong ties with the US military research institute DARPA. Thus, it’s very likely that some day they might be used to fight proxy wars and kill humans.

The ‘Dynamics’ album was conceived in early 2018. While making it I noticed that there was an underlying theme of “robot-ness” in the tracks. Writing SuperCollider code that produced strange interlocking kick drums, shifting temporally almost in an autonomous manner, I felt that this is dance music better suited for artificial beings than humans.

The robots of Boston Dynamics came to mind. I named the tracks after the prototypes of the manufacturer and started to wonder, why can’t we make robots to rave and dance instead of fight our wars? Why is it that that the advancement of technology is often left to the military-industrial complex? Rather than producing killing machines, maybe we could produce robots simply because we can.

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released September 19, 2018

Music/text/cover by Forces

Mastered by Calum Gunn
www.calumgunn.com

Released by Conditional Records
conditionalrecs.bandcamp.com

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Forces Helsinki, Finland

Constantly mutating rhythms and sharp digital textures shape the sound of Forces. Forces is the electronic music project of Finnish multidisciplinary artist Joonas Siren dedicated to the possibilities of electronic sound with different live coding techniques and other software use/abuse.

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