Art music is in a class by itself. Not really adhering to regular genre sorting, art music is how I entered this form of communication. 

If we thought the 2016 election was a bad thing, we really had a little taste of how things were going to roll out with the results of the 2004 election. Hanging chads and all. This composition was an actual dream I had the night of the election. The audio samples that make up this composition are me singing the old Staples Singers tune "I Had a Dream," the Taos Gospel Choir rehearsing the same tune, played in fast forward mode, and played backward, and a sample oracle toy from Walmart.

Back in 2010 I attended a show of noisy sculptures by Christina Sporrong and Christian Ristow and sampled the sound the sculpture “Nine Beating Hearts” made. I added Pitx’s “Fun Key (ft. Kirkoid)” and this is a remix of a slightly different take on the same piece. “Power Transmission - The Art of Ristow and Sporrong” Encore Gallery, Taos Community Auditorium. ("Cool" was how they responded :\ when I sent them a link), 

I used to belong to a writers' online community called everything2.com. One of the users there had a project where he asked contributors to put together music for a little story he wrote that was described as sort of a reverse-Pinocchio story – a real boy that wishes to become a robot. This third song in the CSM trio is called "OnOffRobot"

In this episode, we have time for a bonus track, one we played earlier in the season, but it seems like an appropriate time to play it again. This is an audio "Rendition" of what social media sounds like sometimes.

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