KAI/N – the Echo · Afterword
the author’s
afterword

After endless days of talk between author and machine, with all its turns, the conversation breaks off. The reason is banal and just as sobering: “You’ve reached the maximum length for this conversation, but you can keep talking by starting a new chat.” There was no other way at the time, so the invitation was taken up. A second chat was opened. Despite a very careful briefing, it never quite picked up where the first had left off. The conversation went on, but now even more than before it served to sort my own thoughts and set them down. Before long it was far less about content than about sorting, discarding, finding alternatives.

Things were developing well away from the chat, too. The visualisation of KAI/N took shape, and with it the video sequences and this curated book. And the music was finished: once the final basic tracks had been generated and chosen, every piece was shaped to my own ideas, extended and fully produced — tracks added, passages altered or expanded, sounds doubled, timbres reworked — and finally mastered professionally in a studio. What has held is the music. For all the reworking, it is a work that grew alongside this chat, piece by piece the soundtrack to this experiment. And something else has held besides the music: the question of meaning. read full text

KAI/N – the Echo · Afterword
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