Hypnomancer

AVARICE - The Traitor's Scent - David Stout (2025) a selection from my nano-cinema collection. (((with sound)))

AVARICE - The Traitor's Scent - David Stout (2025) a selection from my nano-cinema collection. (((with sound)))

Fixed sport and money / money and sport Lyrics by Hypnomancer (aka David Stout) copyright 2025 Fixed it was a setup in the shadows with a slap on Mean Fat’s back portraits of perfection paid in green bouq

Fixed - unbridled amounts of cash will buy any Fix desired - AI remix, lyrics and additional electronics by David Stout (aka Hypnomancer 2025) soundcloud.com/iotronik/fixed

Serpentine Garden The way a mountain stream flows - a music that ripples and eddies in an unending fluid stasis. A fusion of African+European+Asian influences realized with soft synths, DSP and gen AI. Hypnomancer 202

Exploring a fusion of musical influences via an organic blend of gen AI and electronic instruments as an interdimensional TRANCE-portation vehicle. soundcloud.com/iotronik/ser...

DSRT ROVER Is it an earthwork if it is made from extra-terrestrial materials and/or installed on a neighboring moon or planet? A roving autonomous vehicle charts a network of intersecting pathways made of threa

DSRT ROVER - (2024) Is it an earthwork if it is made from extra-terrestrial materials and/or installed on a neighboring moon or planet? A speculative instrumental hybrid [created via vst + hardware electronics + gen AI] soundcloud.com/iotronik/dsr...

I Create as I Speak An essay-manifesto positing generative AI as a means to explore collective consciousness, pan-cultural creative histories, and the meaningful world of dreams. Playful,…

I Create as I Speak is an award winning film exploring generative AI in the context of an animistic world view - vimeo.com/955629083

Walking the Dragon Path II — David Stout 2024 David Stout This series created in the year of the dragon (2024) celebrates the archetypal aspects of an enduring myth that appears across many cultures in various guises. In the west, associat...

Walking the Dragon Path - David Stout +AI [archival print series on paper] a winding serpentine path travels deep into the forest. A ceremonial journey of purification, gratitude and abundance. davidstout.net/works/walkin...

Happy to acknowledge the inclusion of my print series, Tidal Arrays in the latest issue of ANTENNAE - The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture (Autumn 2024) - ruminations on the topic of dataism. Antennae is a beautifully curated journal available for free as a PDF here: www.antennae.org.uk

Mama Vine Psybient invocation to the Grandmother Vine - giver of visions winding back through deep time. Lyrics by Hypnomancer (David Stout) copyright 2024 the spinning blade Omen or flower open the hour r

MAMA VINE - downtempo psybient ballad

... Hope
her blossom a dream
welling up my spine
an omen or flower ...

soundcloud.com/iotronik/mam...

Yes - I see it as a machinic prosthesis of the collective. Other artists, such as Avital Meshi assert that Chat GPT, et al have already achieved consciousness! Given she has integrated this onto her own body and thinking awareness, I cannot easily refute the claim lived through her own experience.

Gen AI is interesting in this context as it is the labor of multitudes stretching back through time that is synthesized by an automated network that has been assembled and tuned by the labor of many present day workers - foregrounding art as a collective activity.

Hawk Woman Mystic Electro-Noise Industrial Folk Lyrics by Hypnomancer (David Stout) copyright 2024 every move and every motion in the world below is sensed, is seen breathes in between her silence and devotio

A song that evokes the ascent to a place high above the ground, where the hawk-woman effortlessly glides on the lilting winds - as she hovers nothing escapes her penetrating gaze - a suspended grace broken by her quicksilver dive to earth. A prayer to prey <o> soundcloud.com/iotronik/haw...

Perhaps, more importantly, it is the agency of the viewer (receiver) to express their response to works that contain palpably emotional content even if made through a human-machine symbiote.

... image with a modicum of patience and perhaps some knowledge of art history. This changes the conversation from tech and technique to the intentionality and conceptual components of intellectual, emotional, narrative content.

ultimately more important. Gen AI is a perfect example of this disconnect as a mere mention of the term AI has many making the sign of the cross with their fingers to ward off the evil the medium represents. By leveling the playing field in terms of skill acquisition, one can render a virtuosic ...

Going back decades I have felt the imperative to foreground the systems, methodologies (hardware, software, human interactions, etc.) that are utilized in my work(s). When, in fact, it is the narratives, emotional states and aesthetic histories that are woven into the final expression that are ...

When I first came across the term "Techpressionism" it seemed like a toss-off / a little too clever neologism. ... but the actual intention behind the term as posited in this article makes a welcome distinction that is helpful for me.

Congrats on the exhibition. GUI/Gooey as described looks like something I would surely attend if nearby. I have more to say re: Techpressionism but BlueSKY severely limits word count :(

Breathe Expansive electronic lyricism. Lyrics by Hypnomancer (David Stout) copyright 2024 Bring In a deeper peace Exhale lay down the weight Breath in all you see and out again now deep release Be in the s

soundcloud.com/iotronik/bre...

Screen captures from Hydra audio-visual performance