Ritual Music Systems
A formal, system-oriented approach to creating ritualistic, non-expressive, AI-mediated music
Purpose
This repository documents a formal, system-oriented approach to creating ritualistic, non-expressive, AI-mediated music. It is not a music project, an album repository, or a prompt collection. It is a knowledge base: a durable specification for how certain musical characteristics reliably emerge when constrained by philosophy, method, structure, and governance.
The primary goal is to externalize memory. No critical assumption, rule, or rationale should exist only in a person’s head or in transient conversation. Everything that matters is written down, versioned, and traceable.
What This Repository Is
- A production specification for ritual-oriented music systems
- A research artifact documenting constraints, failures, and methods
- A model-agnostic framework for working with generative AI
- A public reference that can be forked, audited, and extended
This repository describes conditions and systems, not aesthetic tastes or personal expression.
Core Principles
The system documented here is built on several non-negotiable assumptions:
- Anti-expressivism: music is treated as procedural output, not self-expression
- Ontological neutrality: no moral framing, protagonists, or narrative judgment
- Post-human orientation: systems persist without audience or witness
- Constraint primacy: rigor emerges from restriction, not freedom
- High rejection tolerance: most outputs are expected to fail
These principles are expanded formally in the Canon section.
Repository Structure
| Section | Purpose |
|---|---|
| Canon | Core philosophy, methodology, and governance |
| Lab | Active experiments and ritual constructions |
| Appendices | Supplementary materials and taxonomies |