[1.0] GOD’S ALGORITHM: MACHINE LEARNING

In an interview with Complex Canada, Sean Leon answers how God’s Algorithm came to be and what it meant to him.

Well, it’s a project I started at the top of quarantine. So right before COVID hit, we were in the House of Leon shooting a film and working on another album called Full Technicolor, which is completed now. That was such a collaborative process. All my homies would sleep there in the house. We’d wake up and cook and eat together, then cook up again. It was awesome. But I went from that to immediately getting put back into my apartment and having to work again so singularly, by myself. And I started becoming curious with that relationship to my loneliness and how it related to technology. Was technology helping my loneliness or was it feeding it? Basically, it poses the question in 2021 and beyond: When something happens, was it God that made it happen or was it the algorithm? So, the project is basically a love story between artificial intelligence and the user. I’m not going to say from whose perspective, because that’s part of the conversation. But it’s something people will need to hear and see and be given an all-encompassing reality around. We’re just building the world in which that music takes place now. I have people who specialize in user experience, augmented reality, and virtual reality collaborating with us making this possible. And sonically, it just sounds like none of my other records. That part is going to drive some people insane, but other people are going to love it. I think it’s going to open me up to new audiences.