In this two-hour session, the energies of the Magical Hackerism project are revived with Hexorcismos’ Okachihuali: a neural network capable of synthesizing a new constellation of 3ball music also known as tribal guarachero, a musical genre that fuses electronic dance music with cumbia and rhythms from regional Mexican musical genres. Okachihuali is a technology that simultaneously externalizes the memory of the 3ball while being capable of synthesizing new tracks for post-pandemic dance club.
Okachihuali, in Nahuatl meaning future, is one of many possible futures where 3ball music continues to be renewed based on a symbiosis of pre-Hispanic rhythmic technologies with artificial intelligence. Approaching generative audio technology from a decolonial lens, where non-Western rhythmic sensibilities are the central theme, this collection is a melding of an album, sample pack, and generative music machine.
