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You have reached the blog of the Monthly Music Challenge, and this particular entry refers to the 6th outing of the MMC in it's first year...embedding player now...
Episode 1.6 - Artificial Intelligence
Join Nick and Andy (Cosmic Bos) as we explore the musical side of artificial intelligence, what can we learn from our robotic offspring? Will they ultimately rise up and destroy us all? Can we find a way to live in harmony? All these important questions and more will not be answered here, this is a music challenge podcast, with a couple of idiots in the hosting chairs, if you want deep philosophical discussions on A.I then please check out other more informed podcasts, if, however, you want lots of musical explorations of the theme, ranging from Electropop to Orchestral to Heavy Metal, then you are in the right place. Welcome.
We have a humdinger of an episode for you this month, with some Beeeeeeeeautiful songs by MMC regulars like Andrew Hartshorn, TexMex Shaman, Tonal Drift, Hellwaddler, Notehead, A Sea Warren, Man of Arun, Scowsh Molosh, Peter Hawkey, Mobidextrous and Trench Gun as well as 3 exceptional new additions from Natalie Williams Calhoun, Voltage Poetry Project and JPeck.
Outergalactic shoutout to the wonderful peeps of Music Weeklies, which continues to supply the MMC with some of the most exciting musicians working in the world today, we love you guys
The next hashtag (for MMC 1.7) is Mother Earth #MotherEarth
You have until the 4th August 2023 to get your songs about the Earth into us for inclusion in the main section of the show, alternatively, you can still submit songs based on the previous 6 themes to be included in our Late Subs section. (Previous themes 1. New Beginnings, 2. Escape, 3. Ignorance, 4. Winning, 5. Razzmajazz and now 6. Artificial Intelligence). Send an Mp3 and a write up about your song, along with a bio (for new subs) to cosmicbos@gmail.com
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Without further ado, here is the full tracklist for the episode:
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE songs
1. There's No A.I in Team - Cosmic Bos @CosmicBos
2. Clouds Dissolve - TexMex Shaman & Tea R Sea
3. Talos - Andrew Hartshorn
4. Techno Sapience - Tonal Drift
5. Silent Rebellion - Hellwaddler @Hellwaddler
6. A.I God - Notehead
7. Art's Official Intelligence - ASeaWarren @aseawarren
8. Dichotomy - Natalie Williams Calhoun
9. Uncanny Valley - Man of Arun @ManofArun
10. Era Oeuvre - Voltage Poetry Project
11. Ghost in the Machine - jpeck
There you have it, a whole heap of very real intelligence taking on the artificial world and very clearly coming out on top (for now). Exceptional work all, and a huge welcome to the newbies Natalie Williams Calhoun (NWC!), Voltage Poetry Project (VPP!), jpeck (JPC!) and Tea R Sea (slipping in on the TexMex track), thank you so much for contributing, we wish you a long and musicially rewarding stay on the MMChallenger. Truly wonderful stuff.
There was also a few other hashtags from the music weeklies peoples that produced some interesting songs this month. Firstly there was a MimicAGame challenge which produced some stunning interpretations of classic VGM (Go check out the Music Weeklies site or twitter or discord), we present one of these tracks by our good friends.
12. La Cosa En El Umbral - Trench Gun
As Cosmic Bos are a little out of the gaming loop we took the opportunity to revisit a song from over 10 years ago, and slipped out this little gem.
13. Money Zombies - Cosmic Bos
This challenge was followed up by Bittersweet
14. Bittersweet - Peter Hawkey @peter_hawkey
15. Bittersweet - Cosmic Bos
Then to mix things up a bit, we did early Late Subs:
16. Hummingbird - TexMex Shaman & Stonerjazz (Razzmajazz)
17. Save the Bees - Trench Gun (MiniMe)
Cheeky little newbie sneaking in there, big shout out to Jeff aka Stonerjazz for your exceptional work with TexMex. Right back on the hashtag train for ComingOut and Smart
18. Third Eye Pride - Cosmic Bos
19. Smart - Scowsh Molosh @scowsh
20. Smart - Tonal Drift
21. Watch Your Six - Mobidextrous
22. Get a Little Bit Smarter Everyday - Cosmic Bos
As is tradition now, Cosmic Bos put all our songs onto a handy EP which can be purchased from Bandcamp https://cosmicbos.bandcamp.com/album/mmc-16-artificial-intelligence
So quick reminder, the next theme is Mother Earth and you have till the 4th August 2023.
Also, we have finally done the deed and set up a Discord server, come join us there
Before the next episode we will be doing a special presentation for the Hartshorn, Jackson, Jackson and Warren album 'Sound Investments', which will be available on CD and Bandcamp on the 4th August from Monochrome Motif Records, we are all really excited to share our Business themed album with you all, Spoiler Alert! it's pretty good.
Here is the youtube playlist of the podcast
Peace and infinite robot love
Cosmic Bos
