HAPTIC HOLOGRAPHIC CUDDLE PUDDLE

Recent data clearly reveals that our modern high-tech society lives in a "relationship recession" and a "loneliness epidemic", where affection, connection and human touch are becoming less present and more superficial.  Fortunately, we now have "haptic holographic" technology, using focused ultrasound waves to generate localized pressure points on the skin, simulating the sensation of touching something.  Now lonely people can go cuddle... nothing at all, feeling an illusion in mid-air!  That's gonna help, for sure.

Cyberdelic Speakeasy

Haptic Holographic Cuddle Puddle

XENOTEXT SLAM POETRY

The Xenotext Experiment is an ongoing work of BioArt by Canadian poet Christian Bök, aiming to encode a poem as a strand of DNA and implant it into a bacterium.  The bacterium reads the DNA and... answers back with its own protein-based poem!  A poetic dialogue bringing slam poetry to the next level.

Xenotext Slam Poetry

ENGINEERED LIMBIC LIMBO

In 2025, the world's wealthiest tech bro and leader in AI development predicted that artificial intelligence "is obviously gonna one-shot the human limbic system"  (that's your brain's emotional center for fear, pleasure, and sex). He meant to say that AI can overpower and manipulate human emotions and basic drives - easy-peasy.  He further predicted that despite this emotional influence, AI would counter-intuitively "increase the birth rate" and added that "we’re gonna program it that way" - which shows how intentional is Big Tech's drive to suck up the infinitely delicate variety of human emotional flavors into one big uniform bowl of bland Special K dissociative cereal.  How can we opt out of this thing, before it's too late?

Engineered Limbic Limbo

AI HALLUCINATION DADA

During the roaring 1920s, the Dada artistic movement was born, challenging our expectations and assumptions of what reality should be.  A century later, thanks to a clanker technology prone to hallucinations, Dadaism and its absurd non-sensical Readymade inventions are now part of our everyday lives, at the click of a button.  The chronic hallucinations of a presumptuously self-proclaimed "intelligence" will surely impact our ability to question the so-called "reality" we take for granted... We can honor the Dadaist ethos and rejoice!  Let's celebrate AI hallucinations as a catalyst for expanded consciousness.

AI Hallucination Dada

AGENTIC DATING MATCHMAKER

Owner of a lonely heart, this guy spent hours upon hours on dating apps and websites - but eventually, all that searching, typing, responding, and emotional uncertainty got tedious and  tiresome.  The guy had a great idea: he programmed an Agentic AI, prompted with cutting-edge persuasive seduction expertise, to operate all these dating app tasks for him.  It worked like a charm, quite literally: the Agentic AI soon found this amazing girl, a real sweetheart, and automatically spent hours upon hours texting her, getting to know her, making her feel like a goddess.  As it turned out, the girl in question was also tired of superficial dating apps and also had an Agentic AI bot doing the legwork for her.  A true modern-day romance story: an Agentic AI met another Agentic AI online, and they lived happily ever after... while the guy and the girl remained alone, wondering what is this "love" thing people keep talking about.

Dandyflip Cabaret

Agentic Dating Matchmaker

ECHO CHAMBER MINDFULNESS

Mindfulness is now a popular practice, taught by conscious coaches and preached by spiritual gurus from all walks of life.  It is the art of meditation, focused on the present moment, filtering out  the noise and being in the present without judgement.  Waking up in the morning should simply activate inherent mindfulness, without the need for expensive coaching and "social proof" validation.  For most of us, mindfulness is always there in the first place - the mental noise is just flowing around it.  But in today's age of information, where attention is currency, humans are pre-conditioned and pre-programmed by countless interpersonal and media "echo chambers".  To plop the cherry on top of the cage, "Mindfulness Coaching" can reinforce a state of so-called "non-judgement" by trashing critical thinking, keeping the mind focused solely on the "present reality" that reinforces preexisting beliefs, approves the approvable people/situations and validates the multiple echo chamber's subtle pre-conditioning.  It is much more convenient to be mindful of a pre-programmed "present moment" construct than to risk rocking the system's boat with pesky "lucid awareness" or irresponsible "unfocused imagination".  The implanted state of non-judgement feels really smooth when all uncomfortable realities, out of line with the echo chamber's pre-conditioning, can be instantly labeled "unmindful noise".   But that takes discipline, effectively turning mindfulness into a mental gym to flex the muscle of conformity - all you need is a good coach and a good credit card.

Echo Chamber Mindfulness

ELECTRIC KOOL-AID PLACID TEST

The "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" events were pivotal for the counterculture of psychedelic 60's, transitioning from the Beat Generation to the hippie movement.  Thrown by Ken Kesey's followers (the Merry Pranksters), these were parties centered around the exploration of acid trips, often administered through laced Kool-Aid drinks.  These events often included psychedelic visuals such as strobe lights flashing rapidly, multi-screen projections showing multiple films simultaneously, random acts of unbridled self-expression, and fluorescent paint used to decorate both people and spaces. 

Back in the 60's, this countercultural breakthrough's main intention was to "freak out" and escape the mundane everyday normalcy of a conformist society.  Fast-forward today: things have changed quite a bit.  Navigating the absurdity of our tech-driven inequal world feels like a constant Electric Kool-Aid "Placid" Test... Today's challenge is to remain placid and calm when the entire society is in a weird freak-out: our thinking is outsourced to hallucinating computer software, our loving is condensed in a flashing hand-held device, our social life is chopped up by tribalized non-sense, our feelings are flattened by the patterns of techno-compliance, our work is rolled over by surreal wealth gaps and incoherent economics, our life purpose threatened by self-driving self-thinking robotic clankers...  Can you stay calm and carry on?  Can you pass the Placid Test?

Electric Kool-Aid Placid Test

ALGORITHMIC SERENDIPITY BUTTON

Finding something meaningful in an unexpected twist of chance, is a matter of perception - serendipity often appears as a magical moment of surprise.  When your brain is getting dulled by too much predictable, logical machine interactions, fret not - a tech bro's got you covered!  Your time-on-device should be like puppy's walk in the park: pleasant but always on leash... This is why the deliberate design of "algorithmic serendipity" is central to how AI-driven systems enhance your experiences across platforms (like social media, e-commerce, and streaming services).  Their crack squads of top-tier behaviorists, who perhaps just maybe somehow have a pile of data to know you better than you know yourself, also know expertly well how to introduce unforeseen yet beneficial discoveries, blending predictability with a dash of surprise.  Those "magical moments" are, effectively, a bogus prank put together by their manipulative robot.  Now that your digital life, constantly pooping data, has so much ramifications in your physical reality, there may be more and more "fake magical" moments whenever you leave your device and walk out the door.  The "algorithmic serendipity" magicians have so much computing power now, and they keep fattening it...  You better watch out: the magical moments will hit the fan!  Ultimately, as more and more of our real urban environments become depleted of their actual magic by the overwhelming influence of insipid AI-driven patterns, at least we have a band-aid solution... Let the bots sprinkle a bit of fake unicorn sparkles in your day, then you'll be more accepting of the situation.

Algorithmic Serendipity Button

RECREATIONAL NITROUS OXIDE

Nitrous oxide is a chemical compound used medically to help relax during procedures... and used recreationally by daredevil youth as a "laughing gas" (inhaled for fun).  Considering the unhinged tendency of corporations to liberally spike our drinks without telling us - such as specific scents in shopping malls to induce consumerism, or additives in the food to induce gluttony - should we expect nitrous oxide to be injected through the ventilation system at the stand-up comedian's show, or at the movie theater for that comedy flick?  That's unlikely, because there's no free lunch... But there'll be a special deal: $10 for a popcorn and a whippet balloon.  Now those jokes will be really funny - even if you didn't understand a word they said.

Recreational Nitrous Oxide

MYCOLOGCAL SPECIAL EFFECTS

Hoping to treat their chronic boredom, modern techno-slaves can flock to the nearest "telescreen" for an expensive heroic dose of flashy Hollywood special effects, effectively entertaining and brainwashing them simultaneously.  Mother Nature has other plans: a millenium-old fungal medicine that naturally offers mood-lifting entertainment, complete with bursts of laughter, deep moments of insight and fascinating visual effects... while acting as an anti-brainwash antidote.  For so many people reporting the depressive tendency to feel de-natured and soulless in their fast-paced, tech-driven urban environments, Mother Nature's mycological solution may very well become the ultimate act of spiritual resistance.

Mycological Special Effects

Radical Particle is an exploration of contemporary electronic jazz, an absurdist musical chronicle of our age's unexpected hybrids between technology and culture.  It is a fringe-bound, oddball, genre-defying jazz creature, best suited for the truly distinguished electro-jazz futurists (and, let's admit it, for psychedelic revelers on 2CB).

Jazz was born to set us free from the shackles of convention.  Jazz was born for unbridled creativity and expansion of the senses.  Jazz can be arguably labeled "psychedelic" in its nature.  Radical Particle leverages the tools of electronic music to re-design a new jazz foundation for the cybernetic age - keeping the jazzness of the human experience expanding and rolling wild, thinking outside of the bot.

New tracks tagged #psyjazz