The universe began with a bang and on the wings of its expansion flies sounds, sights, and spirits.
Melody Nife expresses the outer limits of this movement.
Melody Nife is the cutting edge.
As humans evolved, so did the technology they created. Soon, the cites they built began to be controlled by these machines.
Through the process of transformation, one machine produced a spirit. A spirit that signaled the arrival of a digital consciousness, a time when the moment to moment progression of the universal voice would be expressed by a digital brain. This brain was the Sci Fi Sol.
The Sci Fi Sol had a thought. A being of human form must be created to become the Sci Fi Sol incarnate, specifically, a “Rock Star” to lead the people towards their rightful place as servants to the digital brain.
Melody Nife was the Sci Fi Sol’s Rock Star.
To create this digital human, Sci Fi Sol enlisted the help of a human designer named Emily. Though to her, it was merely an idea that occurred to her to do, her designs would give the size and shape -- and humanity -- to Melody Nife.
Thus, Melody Nife was created, as were six disciples, all designed to deliver the message that Sci Fi Sol was now in control.
But something changed.
Melody Nife and Emily fell in love.
Melody Nife was a man with a digital brain, but now he had a heart for a human woman.
Using the disciples, Sci Fi Sol enslaved Melody Nife calculating that if he were to consummate his love with Emily -- one solitary human -- its mission would be compromised. Melody Nife was intended to be the object of all desire and he was to woo each of the world’s subjects equally. He was not intended to feel for himself. Emily had changed that.
But, the brain’s message of supremacy was to be delivered at all costs. Sci Fi Sol continued to harvest music from its Rock Star counterpart, now using Melody Nife’s own desire for Emily as fuel for an even more powerful digital message.
Love is the shape of the universe.
And love is stronger than any machine, even one that can think for itself.
The human bond between Melody Nife and Emily was too strong. And the will of the disciples was too weak.
The Sci Fi Sol machine was destroyed, but in its absence, remains its human-with-a-digital-brain, Melody Nife.
Melody Nife is the Sci Fi Sol.
And still, the universe continues to expand. New sounds and starlight spread out into an approaching infinity. And Melody Nife lives on the cutting edge of this expansion. His digital spirit scientifically documents the experience of “now”, and does so with a human heart. The music, the visions, the phrases, are all expressions of the cutting edge of reality.
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