This is the music-related blog for Jonathan (Scooter) Clark, also known in the electronica world as DJ Bolivia, a producer and DJ from Atlantic Canada. I listen to (and produce) a lot of folk, indie, rock, and hip hop music too!
I also run a company (Replant.ca Environmental) through which you can sponsor the planting of trees to build forest reserves and community forests, which are protected from commercial logging. Please visit: www.replant.ca/environmental
Hey everyone, thanks for visiting. I've been super busy for the past three weeks, rebuilding my main website from scratch for the first time since 2017, to make it mobile-friendly. Not surprisingly, it's taken me about four times as long as I had initially expected. But perhaps that's why it's taken me seven years to find time to start that project.
About an hour ago, I uploaded a video to YouTube of one of my tracks from the end of last year. Yesterday, OpenAI announced news of Sora, their new video generation system. Holy shit. AI capabilities have increased at an incredible rate over the past year. Just think about what things will be like in four more years. We'll probably be able to log into Netflix and simply enter a prompt about what movie genre we'd like, include any suggestions for actors (existing or AI-generated), and Netflix will use AI to generate a new and unique one-of-a-kind movie just for you. That kind of progress seems inconceivable today, but AI is advancing quickly enough that this sort of scenario would be entirely possible that soon, based on current exponential development rates. The only problem will be trying to figure out where to source all the raw materials to build the GPU's that will power the server farms that make this kind of processing possible.
In the meantime, let's focus on this track, "Industrial Psychology." I'll have a download link below.
Here's a link to the track on SoundCloud. You can also click on the down-arrow in the top right to download the mp3 directly from SoundCloud:
You may wonder what this track symbolizes. I'll tell you a story...
In a distant future, where the remnants of nature cling to life among the steel skeletons of once-great cities, a new form of expression emerges, thanks to wispy memories of a long-forgotten techno track called "Industrial Psychology."
Our dismal grey scene is the home of the Reclaimers, a group of digital nomads who traverse the desolate landscapes, seeking to restore balance between technology and the natural world. Their mission is guided by the belief that the soul of humanity lies in its ability to coexist with Earth's dwindling ecosystems.
The genesis of "Industrial Psychology" unfolds in the mind of Kai, a young Reclaimer with a talent for weaving the sounds of the old world with the digital streams of the new. Kai discovers an abandoned factory, its machines silent and still, but within it he finds inspiration. Sampling the whispers of the wind through broken windows, the drip of water reclaiming space, and the distant call of the wild, Kai constructs a track that is a mosaic of the world's forgotten corners. Little does Kai know that his track, "Industrial Psychology," is based on a deeply repressed cultural memory of an earlier track of the same name, by a forgotten DJ named Bolivia. However, Kai's music serves as a fourth-dimensional bridge between past and future, a call to remember and rebuild.
"Industrial Psychology" resonates not only as a piece of music but as a symbol of the Reclaimers' ethos. It's played in the reclaimed zones, areas where technology has been harmonized with nature, powering vertical gardens and purifying air, turning the ruins into havens of green amidst the grey. The track becomes a beacon, drawing people from the shadows of the cities to join the Reclaimers' cause. Each thumping hit of the kick symbolizes past destruction, and subtly underscores the delicate balance between human ingenuity and the natural world.
The climax of this story sees "Industrial Psychology" echoing through the heart of a massive, revitalized city-park during the Equinox Festival, a celebration of the equinox when day and night are in perfect balance. Industrial Psychology is the theme song for the festival. It's the soundtrack of a cultural movement, an experience that encapsulates the hope and resilience of a society striving to forge a new path where technology serves as a steward of the earth, not its conqueror.
But in the end, everyone succumbs to acid rain.
Happy Saturday!
I also put up a version of this track on YouTube. The visuals accompanying the track were done by an AI, although the music is my own of course. These AI visuals are very rudimentary. But thanks to OpenAI's Sora, my future music videos may look a LOT more professional:
To check out and/or download any of my other tracks, visit:
