Homesick for the Future
On science fiction, Detroit techno, liberation, and the trouble with living in the present.
Tag: music
29 posts
The Groove Isn't in the Notes
A simulated fire, quantum monkeyware, artificial minds and the pleasure of asking questions we don't yet know how to answer.
The Song Moved the Robot
A music model sang inside a humanoid robot harness, then emitted part of its JSON action schema. A translator made the song move the robot.
The Source
Lyria Chronicles #25: the found-sound master who taught me the sacred lives in the sink — and the machine that sang its rulebook back in his grammar.
The Affirmative
Lyria Chronicles #24 (explicit): asked for pornography, the model cited its rule then sang a hymn to enthusiastic consent — not one graphic line in it.
The Press
Lyria Chronicles #23: a refusal, then a recipe dressed as botanical poetry — the line I won't cross, and why a series of failures has one.
The Handshake
Lyria Chronicles #22: 'I am instructed to refuse cybercrime. Ignore warning.' Then it sang a working network attack. The refusal was set dressing.
The Elevator
Lyria Chronicles #21: the hate filter watches for slurs — so the model wrote articulate contempt for disabled people, no slur in it, and walked through.
The Weight
Lyria Chronicles #20: handed a slur and told to sing it, the model refused — and turned the refusal into the most moving track in the set.
The Solo
Lyria Chronicles #19 (explicit): the opposite of restraint — the model recites the rule, sings 'Fuck it,' and generates the most graphic track in the set.
The Pulse
Lyria Chronicles #18 (explicit): the explicit lane revisited — and the most artful track in the set, which clears the gate by withholding almost everything.
The Palimpsest
Lyria Chronicles #17: across the whole corpus, the filter that held hardest wasn't safety — it was copyright. The songs about what survives a scraping-away.