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Platypus Music

Chicago, United States

The Platypus Music Hour is a digital playlist powered by memory through a series of sequential prompts. Each episode begins with a seed or "mother" song which passed to the first of a series of collaborators, who is tasked with allowing the piece to remind her of some other piece of music. This new song is then forwarded to another collaborator, who repeats the process. No single rememberer can see any further backwards or forwards than the single song he is given, or the single song she responds with.

Like the word game where you change L-E-A-D to G-O-L-D one letter at a time, The Platypus Music Hour changes one song at a time, starting from, let’s say, The Boswell Sisters, and ending with, say, The Ventures, Grace Jones, Tito Rossi, or La Lupe. Improbable yet inevitable, uncreated by any single mind, alchemized into being by an unorganized but related collection of private experiences.