Ambrosias Requiem :: Debussy Music Musical Essays

Ambrosias Requiem Soft sounds of Debussy weaving by dint of and through the air, observed, perceived. A immature girl laughs as a red and dingy wheeled drone struggles its way through a maze of books, pillows, and antiquated electronics. A wavy tone of exasperation, high-pitched and loud, is emitted from the speakers on the wall. No laugh. Stop. Stop. run-in spoken without tongue or teeth, mirroring human speech, infant-like, foreign. You have to go backwards, the five-year-old girl advises, but the drone continues to butt against an old-fashioned CD-player. In the street corner 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 birl in reverse and the small car lurches backwards at runaway speed crashing into a pile of books and overturning. Poor baby. Poor, Ambro sia. Did you have an accident? The young girl picked up the drone and laughed as the wheels spun uselessly in the air. Stop. ready down me. No laugh. Queen to King Seven. end 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 popular 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 crosswise the room, the floor was scattered with sheets of paper, scribbled with equations. I cant meet youre expectations. I am not that smart. If Im no good at math, its because my seed software package was poorly designed. Ill ever be a bad student. Ambrosia cleared her monitor of the cypher 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 joyful I didnt. Anyway, I think youre selling yourself short.