Reconstruction" crew of Jessica Sloppingham's "Caprice"(1980)

Jaewon Lee,  

Jeongjun Lee, 

Ryan Power, ‪

& Ethan Blackburn

“The Art of Slop” rejects the pursuit of “good” composition, instead embracing careless juxtaposition of multiple compositional languages and fusion within an A.I.-generated form. It is neither masterfully crafted nor carefully written. Only exists here to plunge ourselves into a chasm of insanity.

 Tied to A.I. slop—nonsensical, low-quality outputs—this piece blends this structure with human deviation. The instrumentation extends Debussy’s trio, treating the piano as a hammered harp, while a muted, hidden violinist paradoxically loses musical importance but gains conceptual weight. This contradiction forms a semi-coherent mess.

 It also features Caprice (1980) by British plagiarist Jessica Sloppingham, who died this year in a retirement home bombing.

 Is there beauty in its defect? I don’t know—but having fun seems to matter the most.

(February 2025)