Martyna Basta: Winged in Collapse

The Polish experimental composer's new album was inspired by auto-tuned pop and baroque harpsichord music

The machine is designed to keep our minds busy. Its constant avalanche of stimuli keeps us from dreaming, from turning our focus inwards. As we’re all forced to live in the machine, our everyday lives increasingly lack magic and enchantment.

Music and the arts are exclaves where, theoretically, magic moments could still happen, but these days, a lot of m…