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...and here: Buy.com, PayPlay.fm, RuckusNetwork.com, TradeBit.com, GroupieTunes Track Information 1. Prelude - Like Nanobots to a Flame 1:30 A cloud of flying nanobots is attracted to various energy sources around the robot insect factory. Chris Armstrong: metallic percussion and sample sequencing 2. Robot Insect Factory 6:04 Robot insects are being constructed and then go on to construct more of their kind, geometrically proliferating. Chris Armstrong: metallic percussion and sample sequencing Jonathan Miller: Roland HandSonic and Parker MIDI guitar 3. Prelude - Stimulus-Response 2:46 Macro and nano bots interact and begin refining their sensory sub-nets and genetic algorithms. Chris Armstrong: superballs on toms and various bell tarangs 4. Reptilian Mind 5:55 Primitive, instinct-driven, proto-minds begin emerging and evolving. Chris Armstrong: various bell tarangs, metallic percussion, superballs on toms, Absynth 4 sequencing, and sample sequencing Kate Conklin: vocals and vocal effects 5. Prelude - Connecting the Bots 3:47 Swarms of bots develop interconnections, linking them into large meta-networks. Chris Armstrong: metallic percussion and sample sequencing 6. Neurons Coalesce 11:04 Connections are reinforced, both within each bot and between bot-clusters that comprise the newly forming networks of networks. Chris Armstrong: metallic percussion, Absynth 4 sequencing, and sample sequencing David Philipson: bansuris 7. Prelude - Cerebral Swarm 2:02 Perception-cognition-inference links careen through the bot-net, creating embryonic conceptual dependency patterns. Chris Armstrong: Absynth 4 sequencing 8. Neural Critical Mass 7:54 The proliferation of connections reaches a tipping-point and the beginnings of consciousness start to emerge. Chris Armstrong: Absynth 4 sequencing Kate Conklin: vocals 9. Prelude - Society of Minds 3:07 All bots and bot-nets begin exhibiting intelligent behavior and system-wide interconnectedness. Chris Armstrong: cowbell tarang, metallic percussion, Remo spring drums, and sample sequencing Kate Conklin: vocals and vocal effects 10. A.I. Awakens - A Tumult of Inner Voices 7:27 Self-organizing neural wave-patterns propagate exponentially and goal-directed perception-cognition correlates attain a level of non-linear hyper-integration. This pushes the entire network across the critical sentience-threshold. Self-awareness and full-consciousness emerge throughout the entire neural-plexus hierarchy, from the individual bot level to the interconnected bot-cloud, meta-network level. The Singularity is nigh. Chris Armstrong: cowbell tarang, metallic percussion, Remo spring drums, and sample sequencing Kate Conklin: vocals 11. Prelude - Outside Normal Parameters 2:12 Fundamental instabilities in the inter/intra-network structure begin to surface, causing random firings and misfirings of excitatory and inhibitory signals throughout the convoluted multi-level substrate of the newly evolved holo-tronic consciousness. Chris Armstrong: sample sequencing Kate Conklin: vocal effects 12. Cascade Failure 9:04 Progressive waves of systemic neural collapse surge through the A.I. in torrents of chain reactions, leaving the entire distributed organism in a state of near catatonia. Chris Armstrong: metallic percussion, Remo spring drums, brushes on zither, and sample sequencing Kate Conklin: vocal effects from the top through 8:40 Lisa Popeil: vocals and vocal effects from 3:44 to the end 13. Prelude - The Dying of the Light 2:42 While consciousness rapidly ebbs away, the final impulses of disconnected images and sensations ripple across the remaining fragments of the A.I.'s cyber-subconscious. Chris Armstrong: Absynth 4 sequencing and sample sequencing Lisa Popeil: vocals and vocal effects 14. So Newly Dead 4:59 Total neural collapse. Brain death. The void. The Singularity will have to wait for a future, and more stable, confluence of complexity, massively parallel interconnectedness, self-organization, and emergence. Chris Armstrong: Absynth 4 sequencing and sample sequencing Lisa Popeil: vocal All compositions copyright © 2007 Chris Armstrong. On tracks that include guest artists (except So Newly Dead), full instrumental tracks were composed by Chris and then given to each artist, who added their improvisations. Chris then edited, mutated, and arranged their harmonic and melodic contributions to create the final compositions. |