IX: TMRW (Lo Shu Square)
Volume 9 and final chapter in the original electronic music series,
“The New Adventures of Professor Clock”
“The New Adventures of Professor Clock”
A month ago, I released Ópsis 3: Artificial Revolution, a 90-minute double album exploring perception, technology, and the human experience through the Ópsis series. The Greek term “Ópsis,” meaning sight or vision, symbolizes different ways of seeing the world. In Ópsis 3: Artificial Revolution, I reflect on how technology, particularly AI, can influence our perception and interaction with the world. Digital interfaces, data, and artificial intelligence are now enhancing the "vision."
These last four volumes delve deeper into the intersection between AI, human evolution, and societal transformation. The subtitle Artificial Revolution hints at a theme of technological upheaval driven by AI advancements.
The journey to this album was arduous, involving 1,400 song outputs and nearly 5,000 prompt revisions. After this meticulous process, I selected 30 tracks that encapsulate my musical vision. Instead of a deluxe version, I created an album as a “book end,” celebrating the end of an era and the beginning of a new one.
Over the past decade and a half, I’ve crafted electronic music samples by combining field recordings and my voice, creating an immersive soundscape. My character world-building has evolved into a nine-volume series, culminating in the final volume, IX: TMRW Lo Shu Square, known as Period Nine. This period corresponds to Pluto’s 20-year transit into Aquarius.
The world is a GAMUT, a vast, noisy, busy, overstimulating, beautifully indulgent, magically cold, bitter, heartbreaking, and divine place. Earth was created by design. Earth changes by design. We, too, change and evolve. By design.
Over the last 20 years, I’ve learned to bend, shift, and alter my consciousness to create and learn new things quickly. Keeping up with this landscape of ever-changing and evolving tools, techniques, and possibilities is out there. I have learned to adopt ways to improve the human experience. Sonic has always been a thing for me, especially after finding out I have moments of synesthesia.
Unaware of my musical output, I’ve created a substantial amount of music, from laptop beats to AI-generated works. The last four volumes were produced in the past two years. I’ve enjoyed the creative process, letting go of self-imposed limitations to allow my creativity to flow. I see my work as art, while some view it as an inconvenience due to AI. Regardless, I find it amusing.
Next up: I’m charting this out with the big boys.
PS: IX marks the closing chapter in my EDM series. May this new music and organic/synthetic music I’ve created continue to evolve into replicas of a larger, more organic collaborative series—the way I designed it. By design.
