Holly Herndon announces collaborative album with A.I., reveals eerie new single "Eternal"
Holly Herndon has announced her third album PROTO, a collaboration with her music algorithm A.I. Spawn, alongside revealing ghostly new single, "Eternal".
"Eternal" is the lead single to be shared from her new technology-driven music project. In December 2018 Herndon released "Godmother" featuring Jlin, who is also the godmother to Herndon's A.I., Spawn.
Although her forthcoming PROTO record was created in collaboration with her A.I. Spawn - which she created with Mathew Dryhurst - Herndon also worked with a team of vocalists, developers, and "inhuman intelligence" to work on the album.
Expanding on the new project, Herndon says, "There’s a pervasive narrative of technology as dehumanizing. We stand in contrast to that. It’s not like we want to run away; we’re very much running towards it, but on our terms. Choosing to work with an ensemble of humans is part of our protocol. I don’t want to live in a world in which humans are automated off stage. I want an A.I. to be raised to appreciate and interact with that beauty."
PROTO is Herndon's first album since 2015's Platform.
Tracklist:
- Birth
- Alienation
- Canaan (Live Training)
- Eternal
- Crawler
- Extreme Love (with Lily Anna Hayes and Jenna Sutela)
- Frontier
- Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt
- SWIM
- Evening Shades (Live Training)
- Bridge (with Martine Syms)
- Godmother (with Jlin)
- Last Gasp
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