This album accompanies an audiovisual NFT collection I'm releasing with Scoby.Social on the Solana blockchain! Learn more in their app:
scoby.one/michaelgarfield

Watch the entire audiovisual album on YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcC2ShU7Trqdsipc2hFN0x6G3iG6NpPzJ

About this release:

I’ve devoted the last 17 years to exploring the constructed and metamorphic boundaries of human-machine, self-other, nature-culture, created-discovered…all of which are under interrogation in our acceleratingly weird era of digital media and proliferating intelligence.

As a musician, this manifests in site-specific “cyberacoustic guitar” improvisations that embed artist and instrument into what Charles Darwin would have called “the tangled bank” of electronic augmentations — sampling, mangling, remixing, and reinventing acoustic music as a raw material just like the complex transformations of gene and meme transfer drive the evolutionary process as more conventionally understood.

As a visual artist, I’ve recently taken to exploring the same ever-folding symbiosis from the other shore: starting with text-to-image AI artworks in collaboration with generative adversarial networks, then animating them by hand and setting them to music. Both paths are ways of recruiting non-human agency and the contingency of machinic creativity into my own dreamy psychedelic wanderings through transmedia hyperspace — building and testing, in the words of rhetorician Richard Doyle, “ecodelic training wheels for transhumanism” that perform, and prepare audiences for, the convoluted subjectivity of the futures into which we are destined to be reborn. The Love Machines series explores the intersection of intentionality and randomness, chaos and order, will and automation, heart and mind arising in the clear light of awareness…