Arca has shared 100 new remixes of the song “Riquiquí”, from her fourth studio album, KiCk i. “Did you know that up until now I had never allowed anyone to remix an Arca song?” the musician writes in an Instagram post about the new collection, titled Riquiquí;Bronze-Instances(1-100). “There existed 0 official remixes to an Arca track until today.”
The 100 versions of “Riquiquí” come courtesy of a new AI music tool called Bronze, which has also been used to create a new version of Jai Paul’s “Jasmine”.
“I’ve worked with Bronze once before,” adds Arca. “In 2019 I gave musical language to Echo, a musical being birthed into the Museum of Modern Art’s lobby, and then Echo began to speak of its own volition. There you will never hear the same thing twice – for two years it is an ever-morphing stream thanks to Bronze’s trained yet unpredictable musical AI.”
“I recognized the textures and melodies, but never the song — for a composer such as myself it remains something truly new which I had never experienced before, a moment of unforgettable experience in virtue of the mystery and wonder Bronze makes possible.”
The artwork for the new remix album, which also appears in Arca’s Instagram post, features a QR code that, when scanned, directs you to a live transmission of a “forever-mutating instance of the song”. The 100 “unique instances” shared on streaming services last just short of six hours.
Arca’s KiCk i was originally released in June this year, and featured collaborations with Björk, Rosalía, Shygirl, and SOPHIE. Earlier in the year, Arca also shared a new, 62-minute single, “@@@@@”.
Listen to all 100 new versions of “Riquiquí”, and view Arca’s Instagram post, below.
