In 2014, U+1f440 member Angela Washko interviewed manosphere leader, pick-up artist and “Bang” book series author Roosh V. This feminist interrogation provoked a lengthy thread on the pick-up artist’s manosphere forum. U+1f440 trained a text-generating neural network on these posts to produce the lyrics for this song.

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A-SIDE: Machine Learning Elegy for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford from Her Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee

We trained text-generating neural networks on the transcript from Christine Blasey Ford’s testimonial letter outlining her experiences of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The neural networks created their own new text, pulling from the patterns and vernacular of the original source material – and we redacted the resulting text into a poem and later manipulated it even more to produce this experimental song. This is the A-Side to "B-Side: Machine Learning Hate Poem for Fucking Scumbag Piece-of-Shit Brett Kavanaugh from His Verbal Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee"

A-Side: Machine Learning Elegy for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford

U+1f440 is a generative music and performance art project started by Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles in 2017. U+1f440 performs live electronic music and visuals using custom code and interactive electronics. Using existing politically charged texts as source material - we train machine learning algorithms on manifestos from a variety of ideological perspectives, testimonies from sexual predators who are serving on the Supreme Court, speeches by feminist heroes, books by controversial dolphin-loving visionaries and more to produce poetic and dream-like computer-generated lyrics.

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