The Destruction Of Reality Is The Muse For Genesis From Cross-Functional Music Maker Kiki Kuuki

Kiki Kuuki - Genesis

Genesis 3.19 "For dust you are and to dust you will return" 

The ominous reading from the Hebrew Bible is clear evidence that even in these most ancient of times, people understood that life was an organisation of material substances. The organisation was enforced by hidden natures and invisible forces, certainly attributed to the will of the divine. Perhaps they understood that the Earth, Sun, and Moon were also essentially dust and air, also kept in place by these same divine intentions? Perhaps. The phrase still resonates strongly today, and although we can relatively reduce dust to quarks and quanta, the fundamental ingredients of atoms themselves, we are still in the dark as to what causes the organisation and why it happens. What we can do is describe it, measure it, and naturally, make art about it.

Kiki Kuuki is an AI researcher and multidisciplinary artist who loves to use music as a form of intellectual expression. His new record is named Genesis, and taps into the famous verse in its description. To explore the utility of music as a form of communication, its medium is expanded and reinvented across a series of progressive tracks. He made one synth track, a simple piece of music that follows natural order and clarity. Then comes the entropy. 

The melody is run through a rerecording  mechanism across tape. Each pass initiates a fading out, a distorting, and a mutation from the original. As the pieces continue, an uneasy experience is created as the death of sound is made clear. It symbolises the decay of everything, and the need for taking care when guarding ideas and information. To witness how easily something can be detached from meaning, from original flow, and from natural order, we can understand how the free discourse and evolution of worldly ideas can enter a two-directional relationship. Where as some things are improved, others are dismantled, degraded, and made somehow alien and chaotic. 

It's not a pop album, it's a statement about life, about time, and about the nature of information itself. It asks about reality, it questions pedestrian validity, and contemporary knowledge. You can find the album on Bandcamp.
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