About RMR by Interspecifics

Access to music via streaming platforms has become over the last few years, not only virtually endless but also highly personalized. Behind every discovery engine is a sophisticated commercially-oriented formula carefully designed for inducing a long-lasting manufactured demand. Algorithms that seem to know you well enough and take a decision on the perfect suggestion for what you should listen to next. Recurrent Morphing Radio is a generative neural audio production system fuelled by the most consumed genres and styles on digital music platforms. The system extracts and restructures the main audio features from which it generates new sounds to later continuously broadcast it.

Recurrent Morphing Radio is a non-stop music production machine in which over-consumption equals over-training. A living metaphor of a cultural process intervened by a capitalist market with homogenizing effects on the aesthetics of music. The outcome is a sound art piece in itself produced by a meta creative agent in which the materiality of the original sample gets dissolved to such an extent that turns into noise over time.

In this database you can find all the audios that have been generated as a result of the training. The material is free for use and download under a creative commons license.

Who we are?

We are an Independent artistic research bureau founded in Mexico City in 2013. We have focused our research on the use of sound and A.I., to explore patterns emerging from biosignals and the morphology of different living organisms as a potential form of non-human communication. With this aim, we have developed a collection of experimental research and education tools we call Ontological Machines. Our work is deeply shaped by the Latin American context where precarity enables creative action and ancient technologies meet cutting-edge forms of production. Our current lines of research are shifting towards exploring the hard problem of consciousness and the close relationship between mind and matter, where magic appears to be fundamental. Sound remains our interface to the universe. Our work has been supported by DAAD, International Cities for Advanced Sound, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Telefonica Foundation, Bancomer BBVA Foundation, The National Fund for Culture and the Arts in México. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and Universitat der Kunste Berlin in Germany. Museum of Modern art in Medellin in Colombia. National Council for Culture and the Arts and Museum of Contemporary art in Chile and shown at FACT Liverpool, European Congress for Artificial Intelligence in York, Spektrum, Acud Macht Neu, CTM Festival, and CLB in Berlin, ICAS Festival in Dresden, Casa del Lago, Centro Cultural de España, INDEX at the University Museum of Contemporary Art, Tamayo Museum. www.interspecifics.cc