John Matthias and Jay Auborn
“John Matthias and Jay Auborn join forces again for a new album. Ghost Notes boldly explores human-robotic collaboration through mini electronic symphonies.
The album cover was created by artist, Stanley Donwood, using a copper verdigris technique in which the original drawing is printed on a copper sheet and undergoes a chemical decay process. The original pencil drawing by Stanley Donwood is what is used for the print in our Dinked Edition. 6” x 6” with augmented reality experience information on the back.
On the inside cover of the vinyl, the artist Mike Phillips has developed 100 new images using a Generative Algorithmic Network (GAN) – an algorithmic AI technique for which Mike Phillips used the AI to compare the front cover copper verdigris image with the pencil drawing and produce the new set of twisted forms. You can see these 100 new forms concatenated together in an Augmented Reality animation developed by Chris Price of Zubr with sound designed by John Matthias and Jay Auborn by pointing to a QR code on the reverse of the Donwood print in the Dinked vinyl edition.”
https://monorailmusic.com/product/ghost-notes/
Mike Phillips has made these images by using a Generative Algorithmic Network or GAN to compare the front cover image with the pencil drawing, selecting the strangest and most beautiful results from the AI. They are strange and beautiful and weirdly mirror the algorhythmic sensibilities of the album tracks. The GAN feeds on the original image, breeding it with a database populated with thousands of harvested images. Through a visual conversation between the AI and Phillips, tweaks and nudges evolve the spawned images. Forks and branches were brutally culled to nurture the slow evolution of punctuated equilibria and sudden spurts of morphological cladogenesis. One hundred survived.
https://dinkededition.co.uk/john-matthias-and-jay-auborn-ghost-notes
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