Music

Conste(rn/ll)ation

Conste(rn/ll)ation

Conste(rn/ll)ation reconsiders the so-called “Silk Road” through the older and less romantic framework of the Jade Road — the networks that moved nephrite from the rivers of Hotan and the…

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1492 931 dissonance productions
Gone Dyke Sparks

Gone Dyke Sparks

Gone Dyke Sparks transforms poetry written during the earlier Gone Dyke project (9 years ago) into a web-based musical sculpture composed of drifting embers, ash, and fleeting filaments of light.…

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2560 1326 dissonance productions
Songwriter Almanac

Songwriter Almanac

Coincidentally the day Stephen completed his Songwriter Almanac GPT was the same day Trump initiated war with Iran. Originally designed as a corollary to

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1536 1024 dissonance productions
山水颂 Shan Shui

山水颂 Shan Shui

山水颂 (Odes to Shan Shui) draws directly from the tradition of shan shui painting—mountain and water as more than scenery, as cosmology and moral space. In classical scrolls, the human…

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1536 1024 dissonance productions
chansNon-sequitur

chansNon-sequitur

chansNon-sequitur is a body of work in which song becomes an administrative afterimage: a place where authority, genre, and affect continue to operate even after meaning has failed. The project…

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1536 1024 dissonance productions
Ai Chink

Ai Chink

Ai Chink is a project that stages a collision between AI and the I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. The title is intentionally abrasive: a linguistic short-circuit that…

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1344 768 dissonance productions
Died of Spurn

Died of Spurn

Died of Spurn is an interactive music project based on De Profundis, Oscar Wilde’s letter written while he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol. The title is an anagram of De…

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2560 1706 dissonance productions
Passages

Passages

Passages is a generative music and media work that emerges from landscape, time, and translation. At its heart are seven musical compositions born from the Inside Passage — the coastal…

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1280 720 dissonance productions
LiebeBitchenLieder

LiebeBitchenLieder

LiebeBitchenLieder is a postcolonial song-cycle in the lieder (art song) tradition. The art song genre flourished during the Romantic era and was performed in the parlors frequented by the privileged…

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1792 1024 dissonance productions
SatiricAI

SatiricAI

SatiricAI investigates the potential of Generative AI for commentary and resistance by drawing upon the historical praxis of the satirical song, in response to SingAiBore), Stephen prompts LLM (Large Language…

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1792 1024 dissonance productions
SingAiBore

SingAiBore

SingAiBore uses Generative AI as a tool of critique and resistance, instead of wallowing in current debates on creativity, economy, privacy etc. by using the oft-critiqued generic outputs from Generative…

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1792 1024 dissonance productions
DE-RAIL

DE-RAIL

A series of what Stephen terms "Shinkansen sonatas", music composed and performed on Japan shinkansen (high-speed bullet trains) in tandem with the fleeting rail-side scenery, embodying the contradictory states of…

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1024 576 dissonance productions