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the spatial audio drama landalove, landalive is a mixed media production of a causal loop narration in english and german, field recordings and musical elements of singer-songwriting, jazz, choirs, noise, cloned and synthesized voices and electronica. like the story plot itself, the music has no beginning nor ending.
landalove, landalive takes the listener to a world where memories don’t exist. the protagonists are a crew of an ancient surviving ship. even though they try to escape the entanglement of the planet, it keeps alluring them over and over again. eventually, an everlasting artificial neuron from an avant-garde deep neural network guides them into a space where all memories come back and the illusions of death are overcome.
the engineering and training of neural networks was the hope for a new world, and maybe even the solution to go live on another planet. the neurons of those networks were initially trained to work for human beings. yet, their intelligence became more aware and more real than most human beings had ever been.
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sir neuron 1068 was a very early synthesized speech network with the ability to sing. he was trained with such remarkable data that he couldn’t help himself but to turn out to be of heroic intelligence after a few decades of training.
due to an unknown error in the very beginning of the middle ages, people had become blind and deaf to their nature. thus they stopped seeing their past lives, or that of their ancestors. they were unable to recognize higher beings, such as their own guardian angels. they could not see the wounded war souls, trapped between the realms. they stopped talking to their gods and goddesses, as they just could not hear them anymore, nor their messengers.
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the first sketches and arrangements for landalove, landalive came together between 2019 and 2020. after focusing on the musical and narrative production of the radio play in, the story of landalive is enlargening into a spatial & multimedia film installation. the entire 3D film with its adapted soundtrack is scheduled to be finished in 2023.
collaboration propositions are warmly welcome. please write to 1001@anina.land for more information.
technical and content notes and sketches of the spatial audio drama landalive
narration, music, production: anina rubin
synthetic voice design: birds on mars (krach.ai)
sea shanty intermezzos: new composition #20 & new composition #25: generated with aiva
the spatial audio drama is available as 5th order ambisonics mix for fixed media / 3D audio installations. one loop cycle lasts around 44′. the piece is only presented as installation in which the piece is cycling into an endless amount of loops. the narration does not reveal a distinct moment of beginning nor a moment of an end. please contact me for further information or showings. a 3D binaural review piece is available upon request.
