Mothership, by John C.S. Keston

Mothership

by John C.S. Keston

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1.	Mothership 03:08	buy track
2.	Hydrophobia 02:51	buy track
3.	Nightgaunt 08:00	buy track
4.	A7-93b 02:52	buy track
5.	Sonya's Incision 01:36	buy track
6.	Rapid Decompression 10:36	buy track
7.	Control Module 02:30	buy track
8.	Heat Signature 02:11	buy track
9.	Autophagia 04:25	buy track
10.	Sad Packard 03:16	buy track
11.	Zero-G Gambit 04:38	buy track
12.	Damaged Logic Core 05:44	buy track
13.	Leer's Vision 03:32	buy track
14.	Herman's Hand 02:53	buy track
15.	Quarantine 02:10	buy track
16.	Warp Energy Field 02:27	buy track
17.	Xenoesotericism 03:40	buy track
18.	Rendezvous at Breaker Base 04:04	buy track
19.	Tyrant Beggar 02:48	buy track
20.	Kalm's Dilemma 02:20	buy track

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Mothership is a series of studies based on a hypothetical; leaving a doomed planet for the isolation of space with little prospect for survival. Composed during the COVID-19 lockdown the work was a way to imagine the terrors of futuristic yet far too possible scenarios such as a global environment too toxic to support life and beyond the point of recovery, or less likely but equally horrific, hostile alien occupation. Many of the pieces evoke the cold, indifferent, vacuum of space, while others emphasize the psychological deterioration that years of solitude and confinement in space travel would cause. Interspersed among the twenty pieces in the collection are a handful of delicate, consonant vignettes because there is no peculiarity without familiarity, and no horror without hope.

The album artwork was created using a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN). The process, an example of machine learning, generated the image using OpenAI’s unconditional ImageNet diffusion model with Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining or CLIP (github.com/openai/CLIP) and the prompt “Dying Earth”. This was made possible thanks to a process shared by researcher Katherine Crowson @RiversHaveWings.

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released November 26, 2021

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