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  1. I began with a field recording from traveling in Kochi: a tuk‑tuk idling, not performing, just breathing in place. Inside that rough, everyday sound I heard a stubborn groove — a syncopated pulse that felt less like traffic and more like a drumline hiding in plain sight.

    I let AI excavate the motor from the recording, not to sterilize it, but to reveal its inner rhythm. The machine’s “punches” emerged as layered time: a fast chug and a slower accent, a beat nested inside a beat. That mechanical pattern became my score.

    Next I translated the engine into percussion. Using three drum samples, AI rebuilt the tuk‑tuk’s timing as a playable composition: one hit for the rapid pulse, one for the accents, one for the heavy downbeats. The piece begins as documentary sound — the motor alone — then the drums fade in like a second reality arriving. For a while both worlds coexist, braided together. After second 25, the field recording dissolves in beat‑synced fades, leaving a more regular, dance‑leaning groove. Near the end, the motor returns like a ghost reentering its own story, and the track closes with a grand finale.

    Visually, I anchored everything to a single image and pushed it through an AI‑driven psychedelic lens: posterized color, trippy rainbow shifts, motion locked to the beat. The title — “Mythical / Tuktuk / Beats” — sits centered inside a dark blue‑purple panel, its fractal edges blooming on the strongest hits, turning sound into a living frame.

    A small act of alchemy: Kochi’s street‑engine becomes rhythm, rhythm becomes vision, and the everyday becomes myth — made entirely through AI, guided by my listening.

    #MythicalTuktukBeats #Kochi #FieldRecording #SoundArt #AIArt #Audiovisual #BeatReactive #Psychedelic #Posterized #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicArt #TravelMemory #FoundSound #RhythmScience #DigitalAlchemy #reel

  2. Of you're in the SF Bay Area later this month, come out to B0ardside's fall spectacular. Art, music, and the release of B0ardside Zine No. 6. Behind the very red house at 43rd Ave. & Moraga, Spt. 23, Noon-5:00

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