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The cover artwork of The Singularity showing Rocky the anthropomorphic cartoon raccoon wearing a green hoodie and blue AR Visionaria glasses, looking up at a tall tower with thunder spiralling down and around it.
The cover artwork of The Singularity showing Rocky the anthropomorphic cartoon raccoon wearing a green hoodie and blue AR Visionaria glasses, looking up at a tall tower with thunder spiralling down and around it.

The Singularity

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A dramatic cinematic-electro crescendo about the main rogue AI in MOULE WORLD and the hypothetical point in time where tech becomes so advanced that technological growth becomes unstoppable and radically alters the world as we know it!
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The Singularity (2022)

MOULE

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Watch the timelapse of how I designed The Singularity's cover art: youtu.be/wlvyN8Q5BqE

The Singularity was created on October 26 and finished mid-November 2022. Continuing from the theme of big tech and bots from my previous release "I Need New Music", I felt the need to make this to address my feelings of simultaneous excitement and fears about the rapid acceleration of AI, such as AI image generators that can generate full-fledged fantasy worlds in 5 seconds, neural networks that can write entire books in minutes indistinguishable from human authors, increasingly AI-powered infrastructure, and AI's use in global conflict.

I called this track "The Singularity" in reference to a hypothetical point in time of the same name where AI and tech reach a point of unstoppable growth with irreversable changes to civilisation as we know it. Similarly, my track gets faster and more dramatic as it crescendos to an explosive ending. It starts with strings, then choir hums, then church organs - stereotypically "dramatic-sounding" instruments, before progressively getting more electronic, symbolising the AI takeover.

Along with the buildup, the chords are one of my favourite parts of this track and I believe they're my best yet! I also consider this to be one of the hardest tracks I've ever mastered, particularly with bass, flattening the harsh EQ spikes, and the competing loudness of all the instruments. I believe I've done as best as I could.

The inspiration for how this sounds comes from M83, Felsmann and Tiley's track "Solitude", which was used in an AI-generated animation made by Fabio Comparelli where he subtly altered AI prompts to depict human evolution form monkeys to humans to cyborgs to the singularity.

The cover art depicts Rocky, the finally-named photographer raccoon who first appears in the Data Trio from Unlimited Data's cover art back in April 2021. After a very long period of aimlessly wandering, he ends up in the right (or wrong) place at the right (or wrong) time as he stares up dumbfounded as the Singularity unfolds before his very eyes. Rocky is worried that AI can generate much better photos in seconds than he could ever take in years. Both my logo and the phrase "The Singularity" mimic the uncanny letter shapes that often generate in AI-generated artworks.

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