James Ferraro - Four Pieces For Mirai EP (2018)

James Ferraro announces "Four Pieces of Mirai" tagged A Symphony For A Virus is an new EP out May 18th on the artist's own label. "Four Pieces of Mirai" represents the prelude of a large body of work that spans across multiple releases. In this introductory prologue Ferraro reveals a dystopian present, a society in servitude to its digital network and its savior Mirai a computer virus with a "denial of service" malware system that attacks "Internet of Things" devices. in essence disrupting the hold of the internet on humanity. It is from this aspect that Ferraro builds his philosophical allegory of technological plague, hyper connectivity, social famine and virtual exodus.

featuring Ferraro's most integrated and deeply contemplative musical statements, integrating medieval chorals to baroque to ambient noise to midi generated music, and other musical anthropology along with the conceptual frame work Four Pieces For Mirai paints a dramatic realization of humanity at a crisis of technological abundance and ecological dysfunction, both musically and conceptually showcasing Ferraro's artistic ability to translate the peculiar character of our historical times into precise musical reason

these ideas that underpin the allegorical frame work of Four Pieces For Mirai are more timely than ever given the scale of our relationship with big data and its role in deepening social structures. both a meditation on the nature of artificial social systems, their perversions and the world in which such a system can occur Four Pieces For Mirai is the contemplative and poetic score to this new emerging reality