Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles
A-SIDE: Machine Learning Elegy for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford from Her Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
B-SIDE: Machine Learning Hate Poem for Fucking Scumbag Piece-of-Shit Brett Kavanaugh from His Verbal Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
A-SIDE: Machine Learning Elegy for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford from Her Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
B-SIDE: Machine Learning Hate Poem for Fucking Scumbag Piece-of-Shit Brett Kavanaugh from His Verbal Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
A-SIDE: Machine Learning Elegy for Christine Margaret Blasey Ford from Her Written Testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee
I have been the mark
and I have been the messaged
the sexual assault
I do I do
I decided to
I do I did the decide
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I do I decided that
I do I do I decided to do
moved
mashed
I do I do I do I do
I had and I do I do
I responded to the sexual, the sexual assault
Exposing Mr. Kavanaugh
Brett Pounded
mounting
the state of the decision of the house of the bed
the most sexual
the bed consideration
the experience of the bed and the heater
workers saved me.
I had to relive the sexual second
confirmed on the media.
Brett is not a person
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the sext to the one on top
the rescuing of my family
I had to relay the assault
and the sexual exntnecttinnsn
consider themash
a counter
ashamed to the expression of the experience
acting
I had the bed
I had the bed
I had the consideration of the bed
I had most of the bed
I did not up want that mashrood.
I wt.peeeearea
about the bed
the fear
the possibility
I had to relay the experience of
the experience of the bed
hard down this happened
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dramatic
I had been the mashed
the mashed
I do I do
I decided to drain the masher
and I do
I did not
I do I do I do
I have been the mark
the boy and the beer
Mr. Kavanaugh
in a couple of his messages
the details of the beer
the letter
it was the bed friends of the sexual house
in a counter that you caused, Brett
with my life
so abhorred
the assault
the weight
the behavior
the bathroom
on the bathroom
to the ground
the assault that I did not understand
without consideration
because I file the assault,
you came out of the bed
motives
the fascist moment
rips from the bed
Meat without a house
privacy bears into home
in the name of the bedroom
my boys of the bed
the sense of the Senate
the bedroom of the Senate
the bed
the presence
the sexual assault
without time, consequences.
next to speak
the masher
Senator Supreme Confidential
his year of porn
the valve of therapy
the reality of stairs.
Brett with his acting on fire
the beer,
beerly
the secure nominee stated constantly
Brett Kavanaugh discussed the bedroom.
I supposedly wailed in the Senate
Disagreed
Represent
Relief
I thought that I had my own heat
this tremendous insight
July 16, 2018.
Senator, run out my life.
hard to recall Mr. Kavanaugh's drunkman line.
the roles of my same hearing faced off
nominee drink
anxious, I recall
professional personal attacks
ashamed
I had never never memories
the bed was hard to me to relive
the assault
the thing
the bedroom
the consequences
the trauma
the meds
the information
the experience
the letter
the details
the Senate
the President
the Washington Post violence
the assault in the room
coming forward.
coming forward
make my life.
Use my life.
I tried to describe the house
It was on emails,
and three drying from the bed
that bed post yells,
Brett, enormous drinkator
This tremendous trout
I had never, Brett
I was too afraid
heated by the assault without consent
the serious cut
the bedroom facts Furious
I am the media,
he is not my boss
but the words,
first fear my boy.
B-SIDE: Machine Learning Hate Poem for Fucking Scumbag Piece-of-Shit Brett Kavanaugh from His Verbal Opening Statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee
Recall any one of the summers.
at the work of the committee
when I was a committee
at the calendars of the committee
and in the works of the committee
and when I was testing a committee
it was beer.
I was some of the reference in committee
at the house
sexually
with the littly new years
the Service CountryCommittee
dead calendar
come in my mom
recall anything
we counted on this calendar
and this committee
in the law
sexually in the country
I’ll have 5 millions from the country
and some of the sexual school
sensitivities at the hearing
and confirmation of the
sensitive sexual sensitivities
The hearing was meant to terrorize the law
Beers
Ashley
a crime of the committee
the confirmation of assault and the country
the man who also rises
i became ever beensidents.
Exposed, grade me.
Sad.
Augumented Ashbooks
cross out the nation’s Past.
comments and the wind
for the confidence of my dad
for the mere American court senator
All for my own
Weekend
the Democratic senate shows allegations
I attended and described
any summer of 1999
the judge
always said people judge
at the old high school
this committee on the weekends
they judged my fraught speed take
on the Square Clinton
highest merely stupid days
I attended my former old women by name.
Devotion,
Diseased listening.
And kind of talking too
the committee was the people
the people allegedly
the people’s allegations
at the party of the people
in the summer of 1982
allegedly
I worked at the party
and worked in the football time
in the summer of these consequences
another point and statement
to the funder with this country.
low points
the people stand still as ever.
Perverts from 2008
Dull her fans
Of the summer of 1982
This government said the house is a committee
the last time of the media
for high school
They said
the preparation of the Democratic Committee
is not for this country.
In the summer of 1982
I will train real hard to do not this.
training the four law country.
back breath,
question of fact on nomination.
In me.
I was a background judge of the woman
on the lawn
and worked for the people
allegedly worked
and came to the committee
With my calendar
and the other time
with the law calendars.
just a lot of the party of my former and my family.
And a girl
this I never sexually assaulted
there have been women
by some political assault
oh why was this started
this committee
you would clear me
the president is serving me
and my family
and my calendars.
last night,
confirmation for me.
And this is a thing,
College,
your friends.
I think to be judge over the calendars.
I am.
That was 17 year times.
bubblesort is a semi-clandestine collaborative generative music and performance art project by Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles.
Our interdisciplinary project combines Washko’s practice of analyzing, scraping, re-presenting and re-framing found cultural materials for video, video games and performances with Stiles’ practice of making electronic music and generative algorithms to control sound, light, video and robotics.
Using politically charged texts as source material – we train machine learning algorithms on manifestos from a variety of ideological perspectives, speeches by feminist heroes and demagogue villains, books by controversial visionaries and more to produce poetic lyrics which sound like they are coming from a computer’s dreams.
The two texts submitted to this journal are poems produced out of this process. We trained text-generating neural networks on the transcript from Christine Blasey Ford’s testimonial letter outlining her experiences of sexual assault by Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, as well as the transcript of Brett Kavanaugh’s verbal testimony to the Supreme Court Judiciary committee arguing against Christine Blasey Ford’s claims. The neural networks create their own new texts, pulling from the patterns and vernacular of the original source material – and we redact them into poems and then later manipulate them even more to produce experimental songs.
Normally these poems would not have a life on their own – but we thought that these two should exist as texts independent of other media.
-Angela Washko and Jesse Stiles (bubblesort)