James Ferraro’s New Album Human Story 3 Is Dystopic Muzak

The New York electronic artist returns with another shiny, slightly disconcerting project.

June 15, 2016
James Ferraro’s New Album <i>Human Story 3</i> Is Dystopic Muzak James Ferraro / Facebook

James Ferraro's music is the irritated skin around the implanted microchip, a wry bellylaugh generated by electrodes stimulating the brain's pleasure center. His new album Human Story 3, streaming below, is a return to the disconcerting muzak of his pioneering work Far Side Virtual, but with a new glossy, orchestral sheen. On the album's Bandcamp page, he writes: "We’ve seen the invention of the latte, yoga, cloud computing, we've seen ourselves in a plethora of unnatural places and commercial simulacra, crisis and human achievement in perpetual twilight. Where will the 21st century human story go next?" Listen below.

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James Ferraro’s New Album Human Story 3 Is Dystopic Muzak