Spirit Song with Bastl's Kastle V1.5 and Microsoft Sam Online

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I find it often begins with silliness. After the ridiculous in-your-face noise of yesterday, I felt like I’d broken through a barrier. Whenever I jam with someone I often take the same mentality. I ask for us to clown our way through the music-making, like lovable childish amateurs, not trying to make anything particularly perfect or beautiful. Just cultivating the force of making something in the first place. I began to see Microsoft Sam as one of my collaborators and connect with him on that level.

It means we get over our insecurities about making ‘excellent music’, about taking up space, about being ‘good enough’. The rebellious froth is expulsed, skimmed off the top, and then, once we’ve all made fools of ourselves in front of each other, we can get down to the more delicate business of sculpting the flow of the quieter emotions.

So my experiments with the Lingojam Microsoft Sam Online went onwards, and today I investigated using poetry cycles. Repeating these word patterns over and over again. It made me think of the hypnotic nature of mantras. It started with many different open windows all saying ‘love’ again and again with different spacings and pitches and speeds. And then I came upon the phrasing: “LOVE THIS IS MY LOVE. PRAYER LOVE THIS IS MY LOVE. PRAYER”

I was beginning to connect with my emotive relationship with technology, with the space I perceive computers’ hearts to be. In the space of such connection and presence, I allowed my song to come. I found myself channelling spirit songs with technology itself.

There were a number of these encounters today, each its own beautiful unique world, culminating in a ritual where I sat face-to-face with my laptop screen and sung of how we were both part of the same myth-story-flow.

I have so much gratitude for today, and new visions of how I can synthesise my many loves of complex mechanism. Here’s to Microsoft Sam, today we wove our music together.

‘TECHNOLOGY IS THE RESULT OF THE EARTH'S CREATIVITY. JOIN THE LOVE STORM” ---

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