Chris Armstrong
01-06-2008, 07:26 AM
I would like to encourage creative animators/filmmakers (and creative artists of any type, for that matter) to use my newly released CD as the inspiration for a new work. The idea is to turn the standard process on its head, so instead of adding music to a completed animation/film, rather, create a animation/film around completed music.
The music is electro-acoustic, sci-fi-soundtrack-esque, with world-music influences -- dark and atmospheric. The CD is called, A.I. Awakens, and was originally composed to depict a sci-fi scenario, which is described below. It would be interesting to see this story realized in animation/film, or another sci-fi story, or, perhaps even MORE interesting, a story of a completely different kind.
All I ask is that you show me the final result of your efforts and allow visitors to my website to view your animation/film online, so they can see how our two works have melded together. Of course, I will provide links your website as well. I look forward to many surprising marriages of your work with mine.
You are free to use the music for creative, non-commercial purposes. For the purposes of this type of collaborative use, I am using the innovative, Creative Commons, "some rights reserved" approach to licensing, which means that you have my permission to use the music according to these simple guidelines:
Attribution: I let others copy, distribute, display, and perform my copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way I request.
Noncommercial: I let others copy, distribute, display, and perform my work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.
You can see the cover and hear samples here: http://www.myspace.com/spaceagefurnituremusic
Here's the main website for the CD: http://www.SpaceageFurnitureMusic.com
And you can actually buy it here (only $10 for the CD or the downloadable version): http://cdbaby.com/cd/chrisarmstrong
Below is a listing of the tracks and the story depicted by the music:
Thanks,
Chris Armstrong
Percussionist/Composer
http://www.SpaceageFurnitureMusic.com
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1. Prelude - Like Nanobots to a Flame 1:30
A cloud of flying nanobots is attracted to various energy sources around the robot insect factory.
2. Robot Insect Factory 6:04
Robot insects are being constructed and then go on to construct more of their kind, geometrically proliferating.
3. Prelude - Stimulus-Response 2:46
Macro and nano bots interact and begin refining their sensory sub-nets and genetic algorithms.
4. Reptilian Mind 5:55
Primitive, instinct-driven, proto-minds begin emerging and evolving.
5. Prelude - Connecting the Bots 3:47
Swarms of bots develop interconnections, linking them into large meta-networks.
6. Neurons Coalesce 11:04
Connections are reinforced, both within each bot and between bot-clusters that comprise the newly forming networks of networks.
7. Prelude - Cerebral Swarm 2:02
Perception-cognition-inference links careen through the bot-net, creating embryonic conceptual dependency patterns.
8. Neural Critical Mass 7:54
The proliferation of connections reaches a tipping-point and the beginnings of consciousness start to emerge.
9. Prelude - Society of Minds 3:07
All bots and bot-nets begin exhibiting intelligent behavior and system-wide interconnectedness.
10. A.I. Awakens - A Tumult of Inner Voices 7:27
Self-organizing neural wave-patterns propagate exponentially and goal-directed perception-cognition correlates attain a level of non-linear hyper-integration. This pushes the entire network across the critical sentience-threshold. Self-awareness and full-consciousness emerge throughout the entire neural-plexus hierarchy, from the individual bot level to the interconnected bot-cloud, meta-network level. The Singularity is nigh.
11. Prelude - Outside Normal Parameters 2:12
Fundamental instabilities in the inter/intra-network structure begin to surface, causing random firings and misfirings of excitatory and inhibitory signals throughout the convoluted multi-level substrate of the newly evolved holo-tronic consciousness.
12. Cascade Failure 9:04
Progressive waves of systemic neural collapse surge through the A.I. in torrents of chain reactions, leaving the entire distributed organism in a state of near catatonia.
13. Prelude - The Dying of the Light 2:42
While consciousness rapidly ebbs away, the final impulses of disconnected images and sensations ripple across the remaining fragments of the A.I.'s cyber-subconscious.
14. So Newly Dead 4:59
Total neural collapse. Brain death. The void. The Singularity will have to wait for a future, and more stable, confluence of complexity, massively parallel interconnectedness, self-organization, and emergence.
The music is electro-acoustic, sci-fi-soundtrack-esque, with world-music influences -- dark and atmospheric. The CD is called, A.I. Awakens, and was originally composed to depict a sci-fi scenario, which is described below. It would be interesting to see this story realized in animation/film, or another sci-fi story, or, perhaps even MORE interesting, a story of a completely different kind.
All I ask is that you show me the final result of your efforts and allow visitors to my website to view your animation/film online, so they can see how our two works have melded together. Of course, I will provide links your website as well. I look forward to many surprising marriages of your work with mine.
You are free to use the music for creative, non-commercial purposes. For the purposes of this type of collaborative use, I am using the innovative, Creative Commons, "some rights reserved" approach to licensing, which means that you have my permission to use the music according to these simple guidelines:
Attribution: I let others copy, distribute, display, and perform my copyrighted work — and derivative works based upon it — but only if they give credit the way I request.
Noncommercial: I let others copy, distribute, display, and perform my work — and derivative works based upon it — but for noncommercial purposes only.
You can see the cover and hear samples here: http://www.myspace.com/spaceagefurnituremusic
Here's the main website for the CD: http://www.SpaceageFurnitureMusic.com
And you can actually buy it here (only $10 for the CD or the downloadable version): http://cdbaby.com/cd/chrisarmstrong
Below is a listing of the tracks and the story depicted by the music:
Thanks,
Chris Armstrong
Percussionist/Composer
http://www.SpaceageFurnitureMusic.com
---------------------------------------------------------------
1. Prelude - Like Nanobots to a Flame 1:30
A cloud of flying nanobots is attracted to various energy sources around the robot insect factory.
2. Robot Insect Factory 6:04
Robot insects are being constructed and then go on to construct more of their kind, geometrically proliferating.
3. Prelude - Stimulus-Response 2:46
Macro and nano bots interact and begin refining their sensory sub-nets and genetic algorithms.
4. Reptilian Mind 5:55
Primitive, instinct-driven, proto-minds begin emerging and evolving.
5. Prelude - Connecting the Bots 3:47
Swarms of bots develop interconnections, linking them into large meta-networks.
6. Neurons Coalesce 11:04
Connections are reinforced, both within each bot and between bot-clusters that comprise the newly forming networks of networks.
7. Prelude - Cerebral Swarm 2:02
Perception-cognition-inference links careen through the bot-net, creating embryonic conceptual dependency patterns.
8. Neural Critical Mass 7:54
The proliferation of connections reaches a tipping-point and the beginnings of consciousness start to emerge.
9. Prelude - Society of Minds 3:07
All bots and bot-nets begin exhibiting intelligent behavior and system-wide interconnectedness.
10. A.I. Awakens - A Tumult of Inner Voices 7:27
Self-organizing neural wave-patterns propagate exponentially and goal-directed perception-cognition correlates attain a level of non-linear hyper-integration. This pushes the entire network across the critical sentience-threshold. Self-awareness and full-consciousness emerge throughout the entire neural-plexus hierarchy, from the individual bot level to the interconnected bot-cloud, meta-network level. The Singularity is nigh.
11. Prelude - Outside Normal Parameters 2:12
Fundamental instabilities in the inter/intra-network structure begin to surface, causing random firings and misfirings of excitatory and inhibitory signals throughout the convoluted multi-level substrate of the newly evolved holo-tronic consciousness.
12. Cascade Failure 9:04
Progressive waves of systemic neural collapse surge through the A.I. in torrents of chain reactions, leaving the entire distributed organism in a state of near catatonia.
13. Prelude - The Dying of the Light 2:42
While consciousness rapidly ebbs away, the final impulses of disconnected images and sensations ripple across the remaining fragments of the A.I.'s cyber-subconscious.
14. So Newly Dead 4:59
Total neural collapse. Brain death. The void. The Singularity will have to wait for a future, and more stable, confluence of complexity, massively parallel interconnectedness, self-organization, and emergence.