Ambrosias Requiem :: Debussy Music Musical Essays

Ambrosias Requiem Soft sounds of Debussy weaving through and through the air, observed, perceived. A unripe girl laughs as a red and grim wheeled drone struggles its way through a maze of books, pillows, and nonagenarian electronics. A wavy tone of exasperation, high-pitched and loud, is emitted from the speakers on the wall. No laugh. Stop. Stop. address spoken without tongue or teeth, mirroring human speech, infant-like, foreign. You have to go backwards, the spring chicken girl advises, but the drone continues to butt against an old-fashioned CD-player. In the box of the room, inside a computer, electrons flash, on-off, off-on. The blinking of LEDs and the whirring of fans marks the presence of burgeoning sentience. A new command is conceived of, written, and passed to the drone over a radio transmitter. The wheels rotate in reverse and the small car lurches backwards at anarchic speed crashing into a pile of books and overturning. Poor baby. Poor, Ambrosia. Did you have an accident? The young girl picked up the drone and laughed as the wheels spun uselessly in the air. Stop. institutionalise down me. No laugh. Queen to King Seven. larn mate Check mate What? Hey, it is...you beat me Brandys mouth hung open, stunned, but quickly it changed to a smile of love and pride. Youre soooo smart. You are the smartest computer ever Ambrosias monitor danced with swirling colors and through her speakers she played the opening bars to Bachs Violin Concerto in A Minor, her favourite(a) piece. The colors on the screen danced joyously to the beat. Oh, you clever thing, cooed Brandy. Now we must(prenominal) teach you to make your own music. Sunlight flickered in dusty rays across the room, the floor was scattered with sheets of paper, scribbled with equations. I cant meet youre expectations. I am non that smart. If Im no good at math, its because my seed software was poorly designed. Ill of all time be a bad student. Ambrosia cleare d her monitor of the act she was stuck on. Im sorry, I couldnt know at the time. Genusoft was rated the best on the market. Better software came out later, but I couldnt just abandon you. You should be beamy I didnt. Anyway, I think youre selling yourself short.