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", 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==