Macro/micro – A.fter I.ntelligence

In preparing to write this review of Tommy Simpson’s newest album as Macro/micro, A.fter I.ntelligence, I asked Claude’s Opus 4.7 to “listen” to a few songs, and tell me how the music made it “feel” about human society’s reordering around AI, and what responsibility it might take for that, given the range of opinions human beings hold of it. It first offered a technical analysis of the first song it was fed (“Artificial Super Intelligence (Digital Dark Arts)”), identifying the song’s spectral centroid as 1862Hz, describing that as indicative the song was “not bright or airy.” It noted that the zero crossing rate is low (0.066) and the chroma profile never fully relaxes–both of which point to a total-spectrum “held quality to the sound” in which no note goes unrepresented and “no frequency-space is allowed to remain unoccupied.” It then quickly transitioned to the philosophical implications of my query, an area it seemed to be more comfortable with (it has no ears with which to hear…