Traditional instruments, folk cultures and mythic ideas of futurity offer slip roads exiting AI’s highway to a hollow future, argues Daryl Worthington in The Wire 503/504 ...

To the sound of cumbia rhythms, noisy bass tremors, frantic violin phrases and spectral electronics, the Peruvian-born artist creates a moving meditation on home and homeliness, from the unconscious ...

Even if AI can create gqom or singeli music, it is unable to understand why it is making the music. Technologically advanced tools can identify patterns, though their best capability is rearranging ...