::MMM:: · meta music machines · ::

Meta Music Machine is a sound and sculptural research project, among other things. It tries to develop and build a non-human sound composer, a machine/sculpture that is inspired, nourished and "learns" from music created over centuries by human culture.

Connected to different sources of digital music files from all over the world; it will download, analyze, "learn" and re-synthesize new sound creations from the data and patterns mathematically extracted from that music.

MMM is also an exploration of the creative and aesthetic possibilities offered by new digital technologies and their global archive and data ecosystems, creating systems where human/technology symbiosis can open up new possibilities and aesthetic experiences.

MMM is conceived as a long-term research project that will be crystallized during the process into a series of sound modules/sculptures. Each of these modules will creatively explore different musical aspects (rhythm, melody, timbre, structure, ...), different mathematical and technical aspects such as predictive models and artificial intelligence and different sculptural formalizations generating sound and light.

More than an attempt to create a "universalist" music, MMM is understood as a musical generative system that is inspired by and uses human music as its raw material and that will have an experimental character. Understanding experimental music as the search for new territories and aesthetic sound experiences that explore new textures, rhythmic structures and forms of composition.

On the other hand, MMM wants to immerse the spectator/listener in new conceptual scenarios that challenge a reflection and possible re-definition on issues such as; the phenomenon of musical composition made by humans or non-humans, the relations with the non-human introducing ideas that try to exceed the current anthropocentric positions and on how the way we relate to technology and digital information environments is modifying the perception we have of ourselves and of our environment.

MMM is born as a device of future speculation grounded in the present, a flow of sound particles, percussive flourescents, vibrating membranes, near and remote music in space and time that merge into algorithms and re-materialize in the here and now.