Four Pieces for Mirai (Overture)
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{{Infobox album
| name = Four Pieces for Mirai (Overture)
| type = EP
| artist = James Ferraro
| cover = Four Pieces For Mirai cover.jpg
| alt =
| released = May 18, 2018
| recorded =
| studio =
| genre = {{Flatlist|
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| length = {{Duration|m=36|s=34}}
| producer = James Ferraro
| prev_title = Troll
| prev_year = 2017
| next_title = Requiem for Recycled Earth
| next_year = 2019
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Four Pieces for Mirai (Overture) is an extended play by American musician James Ferraro. It was self-released on May 18, 2018 on his Bandcamp page{{cite web|url=http://www.factmag.com/2018/04/25/james-ferraro-ep-four-pieces-for-mirai/|title=James Ferraro announces new EP Four Pieces For Mirai|date=25 April 2018|website=Factmag.com|accessdate=13 October 2018}} and later to other music platforms.{{cite web|url=https://music.apple.com/us/album/four-pieces-for-mirai/1435575089|title=Four Pieces for Mirai by James Ferraro|date=6 September 2018|website=iTunes|access-date=13 October 2018}} Ferraro also released the album on cassette.{{cite web|url=https://www.discogs.com/James-Ferraro-Four-Pieces-For-Mirai/release/12108823|title=James Ferraro - Four Pieces For Mirai|website=Discogs|accessdate=13 October 2018}} The EP is the overture to Ferraro's Four Pieces For Mirai series.
Background
Four Pieces for Mirai (Overture) is an overture to Ferraro's own post-apocalyptic narrative, Four Pieces For Mirai, 'a large body of work that spans across multiple releases', involving Mirai, a malware that turns networked devices running Linux into remotely controlled "bots" that can be used as part of a botnet in large-scale network attacks. Mirai's presence in the narrative is that of a savior, rather than a destructive force.{{cite web|title=Four Pieces For Mirai {{!}} James Ferraro|url=https://jjamesferraro.bandcamp.com/album/four-pieces-for-mirai|website=Bandcamp|accessdate=18 May 2018}} In the Bandcamp description for the release, Ferraro describes Four Pieces For Mirai as 'integrating medieval chorals to baroque to ambient noise to MIDI generated music, and other musical anthropology'.
In this introductory prologue Ferraro reveals a dystopian present, a society in servitude to its digital network and its savior Mirai a computer virus with a "denial of service" malware system that attacks "Internet of Things" devices. in essence disrupting the hold of the internet on humanity. It is from this aspect that Ferraro builds his philosophical allegory of technological plague, hyper connectivity, social famine and virtual exodus.
Track listing
{{Track listing
| all_writing = James Ferraro
| title1 = Fossils
| length1 = 1:24
| extra1 =
| title2 = Green Hill Cross
| length2 = 6:36
| extra2 =
| title3 = Butterfly
| length3 = 7:53
| extra3 =
| title4 = Mirai
| length4 = 8:39
| extra4 =
| title5 = Remnant
| length5 = 8:07
| extra5 =
| title6 = Gulf Gutters
| length6 = 3:54
| extra6 =
}}
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