The »brainy, playful, long-running, relentlessly inventive electronic-music duo from Berlin« (The New York Times) has been active for a quarter-century, having released over a dozen albums, equally at home on indie label Thrill Jockey as on the beats-and-bass-driven Monkeytown Records. Over the years, Jan St. Werner and Andi Toma have built and continue to nurture an extensive network across disciplines such as music, art, theory, music theatre, literature, radio drama, science, and technology. Their many musical collaborations include work with Bon Iver, Stereolab, Mark E. Smith, Matthew Herbert, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Their 2021 album AAI (Anarchic Artificial Intelligence) takes Toma and Werner’s fascination with technology and undogmatic exploration a quantum leap further. Collaborating with writer and scholar Louis Chude-Sokei, a collective of computer programmers, and longtime Mouse On Mars collaborator/percussionist Dodo NKishi, the duo explores artificial intelligence as both a narrative framework and compositional tool, summoning their most explicitly science-fiction work to date.

Free from schools of thought, genre conventions, and from the constraints of the music establishment, Mouse on Mars has been mapping their own idiosyncratic trajectory through a no man’s land between pop, art, club music, and the avant-garde. Multiplicity and diversity, in all of their cacophonous glory (including failure), form the crux of Mouse on Mars’ artistic agenda.

• AAI by Mouse on Mars

• AAI by Mouse on Mars