New experimental electronic artist Luca Yupanqui is preparing to release her debut album. This despite her only being a toddler. Yupanqui's album was actually recorded while she was still in the womb, using "biosonic MIDI technology" to capture her "prenatal essence ... in audio".
If that sounds a bit like some parents trying to sell prints of their ultrasound photos, well, maybe it is. Although if someone unaware of the story behind this music was to overhear you listening to it, they are unlikely the shout "switch off that bloody baby music!" They're much more likely to ask you why you're playing something that sounds so ominous.
Anyway, the marketing blurb for the album, titled 'Sounds Of The Unborn', states: "With the help of her parents - Psychic Ills bassist Elizabeth Hart and Lee 'Scratch' Perry collaborator Iván Diaz Mathé - Luca's prenatal essence was captured in audio. They designed a ritual, a kind of joint meditation for the three of them, with the MIDI devices hooked to Elizabeth's stomach, transcribing its vibrations into Iván's synthesisers".
"They let the free-form meditations flow without much interference, just falling deeper into trance and feeling the unity. After five hour-long sessions, the shape of an album began to emerge. Elizabeth and Iván then edited and mixed the results of the sessions, respecting the sounds as they were produced, trying to intervene as little as possible, allowing Luca's message to exist in its raw form".
I still can't shake the feeling that this is much more interesting to the parents than anyone else. Still, it's not as bad as that single a French baby put out in the 90s.
Plus, as well as Luca Yupanqui's album, record label Sacred Bones is also selling a MIDI biodata sonification device, so that you can monetise your own future offspring.