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When [[Daft Punk]] are not being internationally famous robot DJs, they are operating in a genre which already understands and frequently references transhumanism. | When [[Daft Punk]] are not being internationally famous robot DJs, they are operating in a genre which already understands and frequently references transhumanism. | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Si874V84s0 Tommy '86 "Transhumanism" (Full Album - Official - 2016)] | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Si874V84s0 Tommy '86 "Transhumanism" (Full Album - Official - 2016)] | ||
| + | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wswJAr17LRY Singularity - Sentient Electricity, Onyrix / Dino Olivieri] (album) | ||
Similarly, [[cyberpunk]] themed arrangements and inspire [https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-music/cyberpunk-music-dossier-november-2016/ a great many variants of electronica]. | Similarly, [[cyberpunk]] themed arrangements and inspire [https://www.neondystopia.com/cyberpunk-music/cyberpunk-music-dossier-november-2016/ a great many variants of electronica]. | ||
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== Biomedicine == | == Biomedicine == | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99bMtg4zRk CRISPR-Cas9 ("Mr. Sandman" Parody)] by [[A Capella Science]] | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k99bMtg4zRk CRISPR-Cas9 ("Mr. Sandman" Parody)] by [[A Capella Science]] | ||
Revision as of 15:02, 20 May 2018
Explicitly transhumanist music is small area in itself. Typically lyrics with heavy futuristic references will be combined with a range of genres from rap to folk to pop to create often highly expository media.
Alexey Turchin was one of the first to compile a YouTube playlist of such music as a playlist for an event.
Areas such as are well established in their own right as are pop songs with themes of immortality and robotics, with others spanning a wide range of genres and transhumanist themes.
Longevity
Immortality is a popular theme.
- Forever Young: A Love Song To Ray Kurzweil by Dorian Electra
- Liamhl - Never ending story
- Oasis - Live Forever
- Queen - Who Wants To Live Forever
- Beyond Boundaries (Outro) ft. Aubrey de Grey - Neon Future 1 - Steve Aoki
Sexuality
- Sex robots - need we say more?
- King Missile - Detachable Penis (uncensored)
Robotic and Cyborgs
- Transhumanism IMANOU
- DEUS EX: MANKIND DIVIDED RAP Dan Bull
- The Man Machine - Kraftwerk
- The Humans Are Dead - Flight of the Conchords
- Robot Rock - Daft Punk
- Mr. Roboto- Styx
- Jonathan Coulton - All This Time (Official Video) - Automation, references Ray Kurzweil
- The Picard Song Dance
AI and computer music
It could be argued the emergence of computer music represents a merger of the creative process between man and machine.
- Daddy's Car: a song composed by Artificial Intelligence - in the style of the Beatles[1]
- THIS is computer music: Ge Wang at TEDxStanford
Electronic / Synth
When Daft Punk are not being internationally famous robot DJs, they are operating in a genre which already understands and frequently references transhumanism.
- Tommy '86 "Transhumanism" (Full Album - Official - 2016)
- Singularity - Sentient Electricity, Onyrix / Dino Olivieri (album)
Similarly, cyberpunk themed arrangements and inspire a great many variants of electronica.
Biomedicine
- CRISPR-Cas9 ("Mr. Sandman" Parody) by A Capella Science
- Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At - Head transplant
Transhumanism
- Upgrade - DAMIEN ( Watch )
- I Am the Very Model of a Singularitarian - by Charlie Kam ( Watch )
- Complex Numbers - Inevitability russian SE (Russian)
- Singularity - The Lisps
- Juice Rap News: The Singularity (ft. Ray Kurzweil & Alex Jones)
- David Bowie - David Bowie once said “I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. I felt very puny as a human. I thought, ‘Fuck that. I want to be a superhuman.'” - http://www.thedailytransmission.com/2010/04/28/transhumanism-and-the-future-of-the-human-race/
- Singularity (Official Video) Steve Aoki & Angger Dimas ft. My Name is Kay