There was probably something more to this account than just someone being arty on Soundcloud…

“There was probably something more to this account than just someone being arty on Soundcloud, and it clearly had something to do with experimenting with some deeper-level synthesis software… But so fragmentary and surreal were the leavings on the page that it even crossed my mind that an artificial intelligence of some kind might be wholly or partly behind it, an unpersuasive spambot gone amok like the celebrated Twitter account @horse_ebooks. Perhaps assuming someone is a spambot is the 21st century equivalent of assuming, as in Jandek’s case, that someone has a mental illness.”

–My favourite musicologistAdam Harper writing forElectronic Beatsmentions the emergence of bot-like Soundcloud accounts, and the mystery and aesthetic appreciation of that approach to making and sharing music. In this quote he is referring to the music ofPepsi 7up. (viaalgopop)