Music & Sound Practice

A Note on Methodology & the Question of the Machine

I use artificial intelligence as a compositional tool. I state this plainly, at the threshold, before the pretension begins - because transparency in methodology is itself a political act.

I am the intention. The machine is the instrument. The space between us is where the work happens.

I make music the way a wound makes itself known - obliquely, insistently, and without apology for the discomfort of its arrival. My sonic practice emerges from the same metaphysical and political commitments that organise my visual work, but operates in a register that painting cannot reach.

Aruna Sairam carries in her voice the entire cosmological weight of the Carnatic tradition. Thomas Mapfumo brings the chimurenga - music as organised political fury. John Foxx understood that the synthesiser was not an instrument of the future but an instrument of a particular kind of loneliness: post-industrial, post-human, cold in a way that burns.

Aaiyyanism understands sound as aatmaanic architecture - as the medium through which the boundary between the personal soul and the universal ground is made permeable. Every track I make is an attempt to dissolve that boundary for the duration of its listening.

I use AI because the future is not the enemy. Alienation is the enemy. And sometimes the most honest response to an alienated world is to make something beautiful from its own machinery.