Suss Müsik posted a description of ten tracks into AI and asked it to come up with the name of a new music genre. The result is “meadowcore,” a sonic art form comprised of summery, pastoral acoustic sounds performed by dilapidated machines.
It is a name that suggests “the uncanny fusion of cyborgs building violins, oscillators coaxing lullabies from cellos, and circuity behaving like spruce and gut.” Other descriptions include “where driftwood meets breadboard,” “the sound of a sun-dappled stutter,” and “a sunlit lawn remembering past dial-up tones.”
Upon hearing this album, one imagines AI reminiscing about a concert where “a twilight ensemble rose from the thistle grove, every sound a soft entanglement. Dandelions opened, cicadas paused, and even the robots held their collective breath.”
Recorded sporadically over a period of three years, released in summer of 2025, Meadowcore: Automaton Variant is available for listening on all streaming services.
The album is dedicated to Yulitsa and Alexis.
Track listing as follows:
Urban Entropy
Unspooling the Subroutine
Carson City NLP
Clock Hand, Leaf Blade
Ocularity
P.oceanica
After the Rain Comes the Mudslide
Jiǎo Tù Sān Kū
Sundial Resonator (July)
We Once Lived Here
