Elise Hua Ethics of Machinery
The title of this album comes from Baruch Spinoza’s work “Ethics”, combined with one of my favorite mechanical engineering subjects “kinematics of machinery”. As a pioneer of Rationalism, Spinoza dedicated to deriving the general principles of how everything works. Today, in the era of the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI), I consider the machines are experiencing their own “Enlightenment”. Nowadays, AI attempts to replace our intellectual works, as if the machines replaced human labor during the Industrial Revolution. Do AIs have their own “Ethics”?

Elise Hua: Composer, lyricist, sound synthesis, effects, keyboard, electric guitar, electronic wind instrument, vocals and producer. All tracks are written by Elise Hua (Yi-Hsin Hua).

Released on September 26, 2023.

Ethics of Machinery

Elise Hua

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    Bionics 5:55
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    NaN (German Version) 4:38
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    Transparent as Porn 6:21
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    The Little Components 4:20
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    Technophobia 7:58
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    Technophilia 6:18
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    Alienated, Assimilated 5:53
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    Pendulum II 6:56
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    Lucky Lucke 5:11
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Bionics

The first track of the album "Ethics of Machinery" (2023). The inspiration came from the chirp of nightingale. The meaning of this track to this album is that all the machines invented by humans are bionic.

NaN (German Version)

Lyrics

Von eins bis zehn
In der Kindheit läuft die Zeit langsam sehr
Nur ein Augenblick, 33
Vom Hundert ein Drittel

Warum gefällt ihnen das Hundert so sehr?
Unsicher, das zu hundert Prozent perfekt
Hier gibt es keine fehlerlose Schönheit

Die Menschlichkeit in sinnlosen Zahlen suche ich
So sprechen sie nichts
Die Zahlen lügen nicht
Die Lüge in den Zahlen versteckt sich

248 Jahre
Pluto umlaufen
Schon 17.666 toten
Keine Idee, keine Gefühle
Die Zahl hat die Skala überschritten

Der 23.875.639ste wer das weiß
Ein Trillion ist Million Millionen
Ach, das bedeutet 10 hoch 18
Es ist mir egal

Ein Kreis erblüht aus Polygonen
Es ist null am Ende
Geh von dem Anfang an

Transparent as Porn

If something is presented only for the sake of presenting, it becomes transparent, just like pornography. People are not transparent. We have secrets and that makes us different from machines.

The Little Components

Technophobia

“Technophobia” describes the fear or dislike of technology. Paired with its antonym "Technophilia" — the title of another track from this album — this dynamic forms techno-ambivalence, reflecting humans‘ complicated emotions towards technology.