A Late Anthology of Early Music Vol. 1: Ancient to Renaissance

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1.	Epitaph of Seikilos 00:42	buy track
2.	Anonymous: Gregorian Chant, Mass for Christmas Day, Introit: Puer Natus Est Nobis 01:19	buy track
3.	Hildegard von Bingen: In Principio Omnes, from Ordo Virtutum 03:27	buy track
4.	Adam De La Halle: Robins M’Aime, from Jeu de Robin et de Marion 01:55	buy track
5.	Perotinus: Organum Triplum 02:21	buy track
6.	Anonymous: Amours Mi Font/En mai/Flos Filius eius, Motet 01:57	buy track
7.	Guillaume De Machaut: Messe de Notre Dame, Agnus Dei 04:03	buy track
8.	Jacob Senleches: Fuions de ci, Ballade 04:48	buy track
9.	John Dunstable: Quam Pulchra Es, Motet 01:36	buy track
10.	Guillaume Du Fay: Se La Face Ay Pale, Ballade 00:53	buy track
11.	Johannes Ockeghem: Missa Prolationum, Kyrie 00:48	buy track
12.	Josquin Des Prez: Mille Regretz, Motet 01:36	buy track
13.	Jacob Arcadelt: Il bianco e dolce cigno, Madrigal 01:39	buy track
14.	Carlo Gesualdo: “Io Parto” e non più dissi, Madrigal 02:32	buy track
15.	John Dowland: Flow, My Tears, Air 03:24	buy track
16.	Giovanni Da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli, Agnus Dei I 03:31	buy track
17.	Tomás Luis De Victoria: O Magnum Mysterium, Motet 03:10	buy track

about

“While you live, shine”
Epigraph of Seikilos - 1st or 2nd century AD

For my sins, I spent many years teaching the history of Western music to undergraduate students. I taught the “grand tour” - two millennia of music history crammed into three terms. The party line in the textbooks I was required to teach from was clear - after a brief detour to Ancient Greece, Western music unfolded from the voice, evolving with logic and clarity, from plainchant to organum and the motet, polyphonic counterpoint and beyond, successive genres building on and fractally expanding what came before.

Dadabots, the duo of machine learning specialists CJ Carr and Zack Zukowkski, trained their neural network Sample-RNN on hours of a cappella recordings of my voice, producing 841 files over 40 generations of training. When CJ and Zack sent me the files, I was struck deeply by how it felt to listen to the network learning - the early files consisting of long notes and glitchy errors gradually giving way to moments of bizarre melody, whistles and washes of white noise before the sound of my own voice began to emerge. I was struck by the parallels with the party line of my music history days. 40 generations of my voice; 40 human generations living and dying over the 1200 years of music history we covered in the first term.

In A Late Anthology, I map the development of the network’s understanding of my voice onto the history of early Western music. Machine learning is used as a filter to listen to the history of early Western music; Western music history is used as a filter to listen to machine learning. In combination, they produce a new alternative tradition, a proposal for a different way of thinking about, listening to and making a history of Western music.

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released February 21, 2020

Design: Eurico Sá Fernandes
Mastering: Alex Bonney
Huge thanks to Dadabots
for Professor Theodore Karp

Tetbind Records/Jennifer Walshe 2020

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