Wired Moth release note
Four Louies Live
Bill Orcutt
The premise is funny and exact: Steve Reich’s Four Organs crossed with Louie Louie. A thirteen-piece band turns Orcutt’s software-generated structure into loud, unstable ensemble music, where strict timing keeps threatening to come apart.
How the machine enters
Orcutt designed the open-source Cracked software that generated the structure of The Four Louies by combining material from Steve Reich's Four Organs with Louie Louie. This live recording realizes that computer-built composition through a thirteen-piece ensemble recorded at Roulette in Brooklyn; no machine-learning claim is made.