We’ve spent many years construction robots to exchange the portions of life we expect are inconvenient or unfulfilling, but when historical past will have to have taught us anything else, it’s that the issues we people suppose are replaceable are actually helpful. We’ve fucked with the earth and came upon that it leads to herbal failures. We fucked with brains and icepicks and came upon it reasons mind injury (duh). We’re fucking with AI artwork and tune and writing, and we’re gonna learn the way a lot lamer the ones issues get as a result of it. What long run are we striving for, one the place we’ve utterly overlooked the wonderful thing about placing effort into our survival and expression? The place we quit concept to the droids?
Possibly I’m catastrophizing, however that is my mind on STAHV‘s new document Sentiens Eklektikos. It’s section Bowie and section Celebrity Wars, and it’s wrapping me up in cosmic synths and pulsing beats and indie riffs and digital fuzz. STAHV requested, “What would occur if an android dropped acid?” and in the event that they did, they’d get a glimpse of what it’s love to be human, and perhaps the longer term wouldn’t be so grim in any case… in reality, the extra I concentrate to this album, the extra constructive I think. Sentiens Eklektikos is out as of late by the use of AKO-Lite Data — get it right here — and at the moment you’ll be able to concentrate to it in complete right here. STAHV as are living dates within the PNW bobbing up, take a look at the ones out beneath…
My father labored in AI Robotics for Stanford Analysis Institute within the ’80s. I bear in mind visiting him at paintings sooner or later and seeing a robotic named Flakey wandering round providing other folks bagels. It had a synthesized voice and emphasised phrases in an excessively captivating method—it couldn’t fairly pronounce the ‘g’ in bagel.
– STAHV
11.23.24 w/ David Phantom (Evelyn’s Casket) at The Church (Tacoma)
12.7.24 w/ Xeno & Oaklander The Cobalt (Vancouver, BC)
12.7.24 w/ Venetian Veil The Charleston (Bremerton)
