Holly Herndon has released her third album, PROTO, via 4AD. The album isn’t so much about A.I. as much as it was created in collaboration with A.I. – with her own A.I. ‘baby’ Spawn, to be precise. PROTO makes reference to what Holly refers to as the protocol era, where new ideological battles over the future of A.I. protocols, internet protocols, and personal and political protocols force us to ask...
Holly Herndon operates at the nexus of technological evolution and musical euphoria. Listen to new song, ‘Frontier’ now. It follows previous single ‘Eternal,’ music punctuated by grandiose orchestration and the voices of her Berlin-based vocal ensemble. The video was constructed from footage processed from the perspective of an intelligent machine, analysing and searching for a face, yearning for a connection. These songs are lifted from her forthcoming third full-length album,...
In a beautiful new, symbiotic, path of machine/human collaboration, Holly Herndon & Jlin have released ‘Godmother’ featuring Spawn. Watch the accompanying visual, directed by Daniel Costa Neves below! “For the past two years, we have been building an ensemble in Berlin. One member is a nascent machine intelligence we have named Spawn. She is being raised by listening to and learning from her parents, and those people close to us...
