Waiting Room 2: "Technofeudalism"

An audio essay about tech capital, endless scrolling, fragmented sound, MIDI, medieval music, text to speech, dungeon synth, autotune, drone technology and financialisation.

Samples used:

Visible Cloaks - Circle / Operating Theatre & Morgan Buckley - Spring Is Coming / Visible Cloaks - Screen / Clarissa Connelly - Longitude / Upstream - “Technofeudalism with Yanis Varoufakis” / Motion Graphics - Vistabrick / Giant Claw & Holly Waxwing - Crucifixion / Holly Herndon - Locker Leak / ML Buch - Can You Hear My Heart Leave / scrolling [randomised feed] / Alex Zhang Hungtai - Matrimony / Autechre - known[1] / Oneohtrix Point Never - Animals / yeule - My Name Is Nat Cmiel / XUNT - XV.LMK / Piotr Kurek - Bau / Bitchin Bajas - Outer Spaceways Incorporated / text to speech poem 1 by Dave Lawless / Giant Claw - Earther / Frank Zappa - While You Were Art II / text to speech poem 2 by Dave Lawless / James Ferraro - Remnant / scrolling [crypto and investment] / Visible Cloaks - Bloodstream / Nelly Furtado - Say It Right [MIDI version] / Ian Van Dahl - Castles In The Sky [audio to MIDI remix] / scrolling [computer sounds] / Meredith Monk - Vessel: An Opera Epic: Epic / scrolling [drone sounds] / Syntagma Musicum [medieval autotune remix] by Karl Maxwell / Kali Malone - Slow Of Faith / Enigma - Sadeness / Eyeliner - Pictures / Aphex Twin - Ziggomatic 17

Community contibutions by:

Dave Lawless [text to speech poetry] / Karl Maxwell [medieval autotune remix]