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The 'A.I. girlfriend' predicted in sci-fi movies is here—and it raises all sorts of ethical questions.

Daryl Worthington , May 5th, 2021 09:22 From drip powered cave orchestras to raw sax improvisations and stunning electronics, Daryl Worthington finds hope and strangeness on cassettes in May Eilien aka Ellen Virman Back in 1992 Bruce Sterling described cyberspace as the place where a phone conversation seems to happen – not in the devices themselves but some imagined zone in between. The boundaries of that space have expanded exponentially since the nineties, but perhaps the biggest surprise...

Helsinki artist Eilien will release their new album, ‘Digital Lovers’, via Prague label Genot Centre in May.  Made mostly using SuperCollider, a text-based audio coding platform, Eilien has built an emotionally-charged album that fuses synthetic sound design with organic recordings and altered vocals. “The thematic sphere floats between digital and organic,” they say. “Synthetic walls of sound are mirrored with the meditations of the ‘natural’ world, in the shape of field recordi...