Sonarpilot

Sonarpilot - The Last Machine

The visuals and text suggest that these creations have become aware and have begun to design and build their own systems

LONDON, UK, November 12, 2020 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Watch "The Last Machine" by Sonarpilot on New Sick Music

Sonarpilot, aka Michael Moppert, has heard the future... In fact, he's been catching soundwaves from just beyond the here and now since the space-rock 70s. First, it was Bowie, Floyd, and Ferry, whose guitars rode solar winds, leaving everything else on the charts stuck on earth. From there, he jumped to Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk, and Eno. It wasn't long before he began making the music in his mind.

Sonarpilot took form in the early 2000s and after more than a decade of critically acclaimed releases on his Sonarpilot Audio label, Michael created The Mirage Project in the spring of 2020. The project consists of six unique fractal films all with bespoke electronic soundtracks, produced alongside close friend and film producer Roger Mäder. Kicking off with "Fossil" and "City in the Sky" back in the summer, the project's theme of endlessly repeating and morphing imagery, suggesting imaginary worlds, aliens, and architecture, finally draws to a close with "Cathedral” and "The Last Machine".

Hailed by Medium as being on par "with Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey merged with Ridley Scott's Prometheus," the films, six in total, mesmerize and lock onto something primal, something beyond and bigger than us. Sonarpilot ends his spectral, thumping EDM transmissions on an ominous note: "Artificial Intelligence is unstoppable. Silently it invades all parts of our technological society. It might take another twenty, 50, or 200 years - but ultimately, machines will be better cooks and nurses, carpenters and scientists than humans. And in the end, when better machines will build even better machines, we might no longer be needed..." Though the sonic landscape he carves out here has synths that levitate and pulse, signalling some amount of optimism, as always with Sonarpilot, context is everything.

Insectoid architecture spirals and climbs against an extra-terrestrial desert sky. Passages flash across the screen, heralding a machine-dominated future of our own design. These forms appear to be beyond the grasp of current human technology. The visuals and text suggest that these creations have become aware and have begun to design and build their own systems. As is frequently the case in a Moppert/Mäder collaboration, the lines blur between anatomy and edifice. "The Last Machine" amps up both the creep and the wow factors, pulling the viewer inside constantly shifting rooms and chasms that make the Matrix's battery farms look downright cozy.

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