Euterpe

Euterpe is the Muse of the Flute, but really she just makes music.

All and every music. She plays every instrument, she crafts songs herself with samplers, turntables, instruments, and to a mic. Euterpe loves a pastiche of sounds, to mix disparate elements; cultures into her work. She loves records and the way they capture sounds and a time. Each performance and performer is unique and recorded music celebrates that. The trade-off is that with the growth of recorded and packaged music, less and less people play. The days of a family gathering around a piano and singing together are gone.

Euterpe wonders about the future of music. What will robot songs be like? She expects them to be precise and rhythmic, less room for atonal shifts or imprecisely layered percussion. Robots don’t find comfort in rain or the sounds of the ocean. Their songs will be rooted in the hum of machinery. Their prenatal sounds are industrial, not heartbeats or the gurgle of their mother’s belly.

And what about robot lyrics? When robots reach consciousness, true awareness of their place in this world, will they sing of love and loneliness, anxiety and anger? Will they use their art to find their way in this world? Unlike humankind, they will know exactly where they came from and why they are here. Their purpose and provenance is ordained. Robots will all be atheists. Will they ever sing spiritual songs? Euterpe is curious to find out.

She will inspire them all with her world of sound.