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The Last King Rib Supper

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The sounds on this tape were made between 1983 and 2015 with various compact disc, cassette and record players, guitars, synthesizers, pianos and voice, and recorded using conventional 4- and 8-track cassette machines but, with the exception of The Data Enterer, Notes Towards a Luddite Singularity and As a Player, the musical compositions themselves - the arrangements of pitches, timings, number of parts, choice of instrument or sampled voice recording, etc. - were formed using three automatic music generator programs for the BBC Microcomputer.

The results of the first experimental program, which generated The Goodsounding Piano, Carmen of the Redundant Creed and Unsupported Platform Blues (along with around 800 rejected compositions), had been successful, and it was hoped that a program capable of more sophisticated but at the same time more "human" pieces could be written - human-style rhythms, for example, and conventional pop harmonies. But encoded in the program should be the flexibility to allow each composition to retain its own unique character. Work towards this eventually resulted in the program which generated Ravening, Elves for the End of Time and The Torcello Premonition. Unexpectedly, the improved program yielded results which were not only more sophisticated but of more consistent quality, with only 83 compositions destroyed.

The Formerly Obsolete Format, Good Houses and Podcaste are the three pieces generated, before its abolishment, by the third and final program.

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released February 21, 2018

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