Summer Is Gone

I've been following the work of Bill Baird since his time in Sound Team, an Austin band well worth your time if you are unfamiliar with them. Since his departure from that band he has put out a number of impressive musical projects - DIY bedroom records, reel to reel experiments, etc. His latest is a generative album called Summer Is Gone. You visit the site and a unique combination of tracks is compiled for your ears only, never to be repeated again. From Baird:

I personally mixed 250 mixes of these tracks to curate the whole thing. Every decision was intentional. Every accident was my own. The website is a set of "turning gears" that endlessly changes sequence. Every hour, a new sequence, never to be repeated in our lifetimes or approximately 1.5 Billion years before the first iteration repeats itself.

There have been plenty of other generative album projects out there - Brian Eno is well known for it - but this feels like a truly cohesive album. Not ambient noise or purely atmospheric; these are traditional songs but never to be heard more than once.