steady.

In a moment of severe manufactured panic, we delegated powers to false prophets. This led to crimes committed, against a majority of the Earth’s population. Their effects will be felt for years to come; we’ve yet to fully comprehend the impact of these events, nearly three years later.

Our followers will note the considerable date gap between our latest work of Sonic Multiplicities, and our prior works. The public health vampires that the population allowed to wield dictatorial control over our minds and bodies committed crimes against both Andrew and Garrett that would be unthinkable in years past.

    We both lost our profitable and prestigious jobs.
    We both faced serious health emergencies which the hospitals refused to treat.
    We both had friends and close family die far too young from suicide and despair.
    We both were let down by institutions, groups, and individuals who we thought we could trust.
    We both watched music be misconstrued as an act of selfish, pessimistic evil - intentionally, by people who wish us great harm.

Worse of all, we are incredibly aware that we are not alone in these harrowing experiences.

We have gone to extraordinary lengths to keep our music and our way of life alive. For Andrew, it required abandoning the city hellscape in favor of rural acreage. We rebuilt our lives in order to keep our passions burning, meeting incredible friends and well-wishers along the way. Music will never simply die. Sonic Multiplicities is an ideal that cannot be put back into the bottle.

When we first started this project, we were naively unaware of how much the world would eventually become a polar opposite of the one we hoped and dreamed for. As “AI art” enters the global conversation via the corporate press and people continue reeling from the censorship and other dangers of centralized cloud computing, SM would appear to be as prescient an idea as ever.

SM will live on, and so we announce Sonic Multiplicities 4.0.

Delegated Powers / Crimes Committed

We talked to composer and audio engineer Andrew Grathwohl about his friendly AI project Sonic Multiplicities. He just released a new live recording called "Delegated Powers/ Crimes Committed", available now on your favorite streaming platform as well as on their website: https://multipli.city/

A Conversation with Sonic Multiplicities

for solo clarinet, recorded by Gleb Kanasevich at the Avaloch Farm Music Institute

lamina hollow volume (ft. Gleb Kanasevich) [2015]

Join us for Ad Hoc: Why Improvisation Matters. It’s a new podcast about the practice and study of improvisation in music, art, life, and everything beyond. Featuring interviews and insights from artists and thinkers like Makaya McCraven, Jeff Parker, Monnette Sudler, Nels Cline and Yuka Honda, and many more. An audio exploration of music, art, and chance.

Ad Hoc - Extended Trailer

We represent the most extreme effort ever made towards empowering the solo instrumentalist with software. As an ensemble, we (▲) perform works of 'Sonic Multiplicities', a 21st century music philosophy and interactive musical software application developed by Andrew Grathwohl. This entails combining a solo instrumentalist with the SM performance software, and Grathwohl himself at the console, expanding the software's codebase in real-time through an act known as 'livecoding'. These performances represent Grathwohl's most current explorations within the Sonic Multiplicities medium.

We, who comprise ▲, believe that computers should be used to further the future exploration of the musical arts - not to streamline, evangelize, or mimic the musical past. When leveraged by the trained solo instrumentalist, the SM software hooks into the vast Sonic Multiplicities "cloud continuum", empowering the soloist to reach new heights of musical complexity, intensity, and control. It is an uncompromising platform that demands excellence from its performer, and is designed to explore the future of the Western cannon, not its distinct past.

Delegated Powers / Crimes Committed

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