Four Pieces for Mirai

Four Pieces for Mirai
EP by James Ferraro
Released	May 18, 2018
Genre	Electronic
Length	36:34
Label	self-released
Producer	James Ferraro
James Ferraro chronology
Troll (2017) Four Pieces for Mirai (2018) Emaciated Pompeii (2018)

Four Pieces for Mirai is an extended play by American musician James Ferraro. It was self-released on May 18, 2018 on his Bandcamp page^[1] and later to other music platforms.^[2] Ferraro also released the album on cassette.^[3] The album was originally shown as featuring four tracks as the title would suggest, but was later extended to six tracks upon its release.

Background

Four Pieces For Mirai is a concept album based around Ferraro's own post-apocalyptic narrative involving Mirai, a malware that turns networked devices running Linux into remotely controlled "bots" that can be used as part of a botnet in large-scale network attacks. Mirai's presence in the narrative is that of a savior, rather than a destructive force.^[4] In the Bandcamp description for the release, Ferraro describes Four Pieces For Mirai as 'integrating medieval chorals to baroque to ambient noise to MIDI generated music, and other musical anthropology'.^[4] Four Pieces For Mirai is also a prologue to 'a large body of work that spans across multiple releases'.^[4]

In this introductory prologue Ferraro reveals a dystopian present, a society in servitude to its digital network and its savior Mirai a computer virus with a "denial of service" malware system that attacks "Internet of Things" devices. in essence disrupting the hold of the internet on humanity. It is from this aspect that Ferraro builds his philosophical allegory of technological plague, hyper connectivity, social famine and virtual exodus.^[4]

Track listing

All tracks written by James Ferraro.

References