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Taken from 'Alien Intelligence' out now on a limited edition vinyl and download > https://ooh-sounds.bandcamp.com/album/jasmine-guffond-alien-intelligence

Through the medium of a distinctly synthesised, sustained ambience, seasoned artist and composer @jasmineguffond arrives on OOH-sounds to explore the tension between technology and human creativity in an increasingly ambiguous playing field.

Alien Intelligence came into being during Guffond’s residency at fabled Parisian institution GRM in 2021. While learning how to generate sound and make music with the in-house Serge modular synthesiser, the Australian artist noticed the typical role of human input for machine output was being subverted by the behaviour of certain electronic elements, which came to exercise their own influences on the direction of the music.

Taking this idea one step further, Guffond proceeded to explore the programming environment MaxMSP, a customisable interface which allowed her to blur the lines between human input and machine directives even further. Across the three extended pieces which make up Alien Intelligence you can hear the results of Guffond’s inquisitive approach as she coaxed the machines into bringing their own ideas to bear on the music.

The tension inherent in this thematic duality is mirrored by the contrast between glacial ambience and chaotic interference across the album. On ‘Serge & Maxine Variation One’ the presiding mood is a slow and patient one, as undulating waveforms rich with harmonic overtones spill out over one another across 10 minutes. The track’s latter passage, driven by steadily intensifying oscillations, is then interrupted with an unexpected flurry of pitch shifting. This kind of complex technical movement features more prominently at the start of ‘Serge & Maxine Variation Three’, which then gradually shifts into a gentler ebb and flow of rising and falling frequencies.

Angled slightly differently and residing on the B side of the album, 15-minute quiet epic ‘Serge & Maxine Variation Two’ bookends a louder passage of synth work with serene, sustained notes that ring out a sort of hymnal melody. Throughout, the movement in the music evolves in subtly modulating, hypnotic, ways, but there are also unexpected turns or melodic diversions which feel much more incongruous. In its closing stretch, the notes dart around more freely as though played by hand, but it’s hard to be sure whether these shifts in the otherwise delicate tonal music were a human conceit or a programming by-product. In the end, the two inputs logically become one.

As Guffond says herself, “More-than-human logics emerge, a kind of alien intelligence that questions an assumed central position of human subjectivity in socio-technical assemblages and considers the philosophical, socio-political and cultural implications beyond music practice in an increasingly technologically mediated world.”

As AI creeps into art as much as other aspects of modern life, Guffond applies her playful instinct to the theme of these works by reconsidering machine intelligence as ‘alien’, crediting its contributions with a more robust yet enigmatic identity in the creative process, leading to an end result which is far from artificial.

A1 Jasmine Guffond  - Serge & Maxine Variation, One [OOH-040]

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Silent Golden

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Dj Smiff - More Than Words Can Say

[Chorus]
Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?

Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.

Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?
Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.
Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?
Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.


[Verse 1]
This life (Life)

Is moving like a wild ride.
One moment, bliss, I could truly fly.

This heart (Heart)
"(Heart)" 

Is playing like a quick art.
Next, deep sorrow, wishing to die.

My inner cosmos starts to spin wild.



[Bridge]
Do you recall that first short glance?

Before this dizzying romance?

We spoke, we laughed, the energy played,

In a vibrant, pulsing masquerade.



[Verse 2]
When morning light then breaks anew,

I wonder where I've woken to.
Her angry partner seeks me now, it's true.

This soul (Soul)
"(Soul)" 

Is spinning out of control.
No steady ground, it's just a whirl.

My sanity slips, chasing that girl.



[Chorus]
Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?
Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.
Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?
Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.
Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?
Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.


[Verse 3]
This stance (Stance)

Is calling for a fair chance.
The officer then let me pass free.

My sole intent was to stand for peace.

This sign (Sign)
"(Sign)" 

Is drawing a clear line.
I held my banner, high and keen.

For justice, action, a just scene.


[Chorus]
Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?
Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.
Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?
Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.
Oh na na eh, do you grasp what I'm feeling?
Oh na na eh, 'cause baby, I'm truly commanding.


[Outro]
This world...

Is spinning out of control...

This world...
Is losing its hold...

This heart...
Is taking a toll...

This heart...
Is losing control...

do you grasp what I'm feeling

Remix of 'Goeie Sosa' by @mulabofficial
Master by @paulsirrell

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Malísima (it/she/they) understood art for the first time on a Tuesday at 8 a.m., crying in the streets of La Seu D’Urgell on the way to class at an arts-focused high school program they would drop out of three months later. Self-proclaimed "avant-garde experimentalist" and referred to as "malísima (in the head)" by those close to her, she draws on pop culture and her fragile psycho-emotional health as influential elements in her work.

With no clear sense of where she's from or how old she is, she seeks to build a sonic home (and make a living—because hey, that wouldn’t be so bad either) through bastardly contemporary productions that mix all the ingredients—internal and external—from her everyday environment.

And sometimes, no-input mixing, because who doesn’t love an impossible love story?

“Sometimes I thought about what time it was. Then I was on the verge of tears. Then I laughed a lot.”
-Amnesia Scanner, AS ANGELS RIG HOOK

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