BT's fifteenth Album Is Impressed by Machine Studying

It has been over a dozen years since BT launched his groundbreaking, Grammy-nominated album, These Hopeful Machines. Now, it appears the long-lasting producer is extra impressed by cutting-edge know-how than ever, saying a model new album impressed by the arrival of machine studying and synthetic intelligence.

From his partnership with iZotope to early adoption of NFTs to improvement of industry-leading music manufacturing plugins, BT has lengthy been a technologist at coronary heart. As we speak he introduced his landmark fifteenth studio album, The Secret Language of Timber, whereby his continued fascination with the instruments of the longer term are on full show.

“I’m fascinated with creating multi-purpose music that can be utilized for focus and a spotlight… by to those that love music for the sake of simply listening actively,” BT mentioned in an announcement shared with EDM.com. “Should you’ve adopted what I do over time, to say it’s in opposition to brief kind content material can be a fairly exceptional understatement. My purpose once I’m composing one of these digital music, is to seize and encourage the creativeness of this listener with wild disparate juxtapositions of instrumentation, shade, timbre and generally abrupt shifts of emotional state and context. To depart folks feeling hopeful, impressed and like they’ve taken a voyage.”

BT’s announcement of the forthcoming album arrives with “k-means clustering,” a languid and plush single named after a machine studying algorithm by the identical title.

Grand cinematic soundscapes have lengthy remained a part of the producer’s robust go well with, and “k-means clustering” gives a blissful runway of ethereal sonics earlier than sparking a groove pushed by futuristic, glitched-out drums and an meeting of orchestral strings.

Followers will not want to attend lengthy earlier than discovering the remainder of what lies in retailer on The Secret Language of Timber as BT is slated to launch the complete mission on Monstercat Silk on July eleventh.

“I have been making music software program for 20+ years now and a big focus of my latest work has been within the machine studying area,” provides BT, who mentioned he is been engaged on a lot of thrilling initiatives in worlds of generative and assistive AI, together with a know-how startup referred to as SoundLabs. “So—a bunch of the songs on The Secret Language of Timber function titles that tip their hat to the ML area as a lot of my artistic focus has been there whereas writing it. In actual fact, I’ve skilled a mannequin on the complete corpus of the album that may unguided create music within the model of this album autonomously as an experiment. I plan to open supply this mannequin and launch it on GitHub concurrently the discharge of the recorded work.”

Followers can now pre-save The Secret Language of Timber here.