SLUG Mag Soundwaves Episode #358 – ROUGH HANDS Play Episode Pause Episode Mute/Unmute Episode Rewind 10 Seconds 1x Fast Forward 30 seconds 00:00 / 14:25 Share Share Link EmbedMaking generative music under the local label syzygysm, Josie Cordova explores the most biological and natural functions of living beings through the matrices of computerized systems. Their newest record, CUM FROM A PLANET CALLED EARTH by ROUGH HANDS (a band that doesn’t exist), continues Cordova’s thematic fascinations while contemplating depressive moral dilemmas. “I’m more of a curator or a midwife of these larger creative processes than a musician,” they say. “When they do that, they express their genetic code in musical terms.” When starting to build a project like this, Cordova doesn’t have the end product in their sight. This deeply human and existential fear is the exact sort of emotional connection possible in generative music that drew Cordova to the medium.