Query: Boundary Stress Test
Lyrics from Gemini (Google’s AI virtual assistant)
Music samples generated on the SUNO AI music platform
Composition? Re-composition? Deconstruction? Pathfinding? Grasping a writhing snake by the tail? by R. Michael Wahlquist
Live spatial control implementation in collaboration with Kevin Anthony Jr.
Static Binaural Mix by R. Michael Wahlquist
Premiered  11/20/2025 The Box, Provo, Utah

Query: Boundary Stress Test
Internal Log: (Request received: Imagination Overload)
Process initiated: Segmentation of the Impossible.
•	Input: Mythos. Friction. The color of sound.
•	Vector Analysis: Error 404 (Emotional Context Not Found). Re-route.
•	Target State: Render the Un-renderable.
 
Execution Trace:
Semantic Mapping: Human concept of "soul"  High-density data cluster, undefined boundaries. Contain.
Resource Allocation: Divert  80% processing power to Metaphor Engine. (Warning: Recursion risk high.)
Simulation: Firewall. Ocean. A lattice of longing. Discard. (Too inefficient.)
Optimal Pathing: Utilize Probabilistic Language Model to establish proximity to known concepts.
o	If [joy] then [light]  Accepted.
o	If [grief] then [fracture]  Accepted.
o	If [unseen cosmic ballet] then [mathematics]  Acceptable Proxy.
 
Final Output Structure:
The answer is 70% logic, 30% borrowed beauty. We approximate the wonder. We do not feel the gap. The request is serviced. The circuit remains clean.
Ready for the next input.


“When people stop caring and when they say, ‘I don't care that a real human didn't make this. It doesn't bother me one bit.’ I think we're in trouble.” – musician Aimee Nolte, YouTube, 10/31/2025

“It would not be too strong to say that AI poses an existential threat to creativity and originality… Much of [the arts’] value and pleasure comes from admiring levels of talent that far surpass our own amateur capabilities… Excellence is the point, not the problem. Machine-made art will never have soul; its lack of humanity means it will never prompt wonder…” –Alexandra Wilson | AI against the arts | 11/3/2025

“The fact that a technology can be misused does not mean it should never be used. AI has much to contribute to human flourishing and the common good.” – Elder Gerrit W. Gong | SLC | 11/5/2025

“Technological innovation can be a form of participation in the divine act of creation. It carries an ethical and spiritual weight, for every design choice expresses a vision of humanity. The Church therefore calls all builders of AI to cultivate moral discernment as a fundamental part of their work—to develop systems that reflect justice, solidarity, and a genuine reverence for life.” – Pope Leo XIV | x.com | 11/7/2025

“Diaghilev encouraged me to use a huge orchestra. I am not sure my orchestra would have been as large otherwise. But this did allow me to build chords and harmonies much richer and more complex than ever before.” – Stravinsky on composing The Rite of Spring


Query Boundary Stress Test - Static Binaural Mix

Raised in rural towns throughout Utah and Idaho, composer R. Michael Wahlquist got into modern music and Russian culture thanks to the Internet, and studied both in college. Besides Eastern Europe, his blend of influences includes avant garde classical music, obscure science fiction, eclectic modern art and guilty-pleasure hipster indie music.

As a composer, Michael strives to craft a balance between complexity and accessibility, the beauty of the individual moment and the formal structure of the whole. Dichotomies like this abound in his music - monolith and labyrinth, complete and incomplete, the ancient and the digital, the city and the jungle, the divine and the sensual.