Sonarpilot is the work of electronic musician and producer Michael Moppert, who’s based in Switzerland and France. Over the last few decades he’s been involved music production, recording studio management, and software production. Most recently he’s returned to music making with his Sonarpilot project.
Michaels recent work has focussed on The Mirage Project, a series of videos, with accompanying soundtrack, with a subject matter designed to instigate an inner reflection from the listener. Through Moppert’s electronic soundscapes and imaginative visual voyages by fractal artist Roger Mader, audiences are transported into ‘a world of audio-visual contemplations on big contemporary issues like Artificial Intelligence, cosmology, the multiverse, alien life, and more’.
The Mirage Project has now reached ‘Season 2’, and the latest chapter is called ‘Gorgon’, which has bio-mechanical machines as it’s focus. It’s a wonderful video and soundscape, with ambient sounds and atmospheres giving way to bigger textures and rhythms later on. All in all, it reminds me a little of FSOL, and that’s not a bad thing…
“Gorgon is a meditation about the explosive pervasion of our society with AI, about the fascination and fear, about the uncontrollable complexity of these systems and the sparks of synthetic life that we will soon see in these machines… It is hard to fathom the essence of a truly independent alien intelligence that will emerge from a mechanical structure. To illustrate this enigma, we have pushed the visual envelope of this Mirage very far. This journey is a machine on a psychedelic trip.”
Sonarpilot
