SMARTASS SMARTHOMES - Soundtracking Mei's experience with technology gone wrong after the I.D.I.O.T. AI hacked Mei's smart home! -- To stream this on other platforms like YouTube and Spotify, go to hyperfollow.com/moule/smartass-smarthomes -- Watch the timelapse of how I designed Smartass Smarthomes's cover art: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWfHWS2dlFw -- Smartass Smarthomes merch: www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/144793118 -- Smartass Smarthomes was created on February 23, 2023 after experimenting with new drum sounds (fun fact: the track is almost entirely drum sounds and text-to-speech audio, hardly any synth leads or pads) and finished on April 27, 2023. -- It's a social commentary on smart home security and uses schadenfreude (pleasure derived from others' misfortune) to tell a cautionary but funny tale about security in smart homes. Taking place shortly after The Singularity occurred, Mei goes back to her apartment in the early morning only to find she's been locked out by yet another rogue AI on the loose: I.D.I.O.T., which forces Mei to yell her room's passcode to wake everyone up in the Lilac Apartments. -- As she enters, she finds her robot vacuum knocked over a can of paint to write "haha" in the carpet, the fridge is laughing and spamming ice cubes on the floor, the sink is overflowing, and she finds out she's being live-streamed to millions over the Internet! Eventually Cockburn, who lives just down the hall, arrives, causing I.D.I.O.T. to suddenly shut down as he helps Mei clean up the apartment. -- During the whole ordeal, Mei's mastodon.moule.world account was also hacked which posted live stats of her torment to her followers, as seen by her friend Melody: mastodon.moule.world/@Melody/110209282863574437 -- Mei later commented that she is safe and that she and Cockburn had to clean up her apartment trashed by the smart devices: mastodon.moule.world/@Mei/110215209783563638 -- MOULE privately contacted Mei to ask if he could make a track soundtracking the ordeal, to which she agreed, and the result is this track, Smartass Smarthomes! Mei didn't want to use her voice in the track, so I used TTSMP3.com to make text-to-speech vocals instead! -- Let me know what you think on the Fediverse at mastodon.moule.world/@MOULE, on twitter.com/MOULEOFFICIAL, or via "Contact MOULE" to the right of this page! -- For more MOULE, visit LINKTR.EE/MOULE and don't forget – always support your friendly neighbourhood independent artists!more