charlescwsmith

OBSOLETE HUMANS Obsolete Humans is the music project of Charles Smith and Lawrence Provenzano, built at the collision point between human imperfection and modern music technology. Drawing from alternative rock, grunge, industrial, electronic music, hip-hop, and heavier influences, Obsolete Humans doesn't fit neatly into a genre. That's intentional. The goal is simpler: Make music that makes you feel something. Charles brings a background as a guitarist, producer, songwriter, and longtime collaborator in electronic music, including more than a decade working alongside EDM artist CPUHEAD. Lawrence comes from a heavy grunge and rock background shaped by years of playing, writing, and performing in bands. Together, those very different musical histories collide. At the center of Obsolete Humans is a hybrid approach to making music. The songs start with people. Human ideas. Human writing. Human voices. Real performances. Real instruments. Real mistakes. Then the machines enter the room. Obsolete Humans uses whatever serves the song: traditional production, live recordings, samples, manipulated audio, electronic processing, AI-generated stems, synthetic textures, environmental recordings, and emerging creative tools. AI isn't the songwriter standing in front of the microphone. It's another instrument in the room. That distinction matters. Obsolete Humans isn't interested in sanding every rough edge off a performance. Perfect vocals, perfect timing, and perfectly polished production can erase the very thing that made the performance worth recording. Sometimes the cracked voice is the take. Sometimes the guitar pushed too hard is the sound. Sometimes the breath before the next line says more than the line itself. So the flaws stay. Songs including RANDOM, DISSIDENT, HEAR WITH ME, and 3.2.1. HOME. move through different sounds and subjects while sharing the same philosophy: Technology should expand human expression, not sterilize it. Sometimes that means aggression and distortion. Sometimes vulnerability. Sometimes it means tearing a sound apart until almost nothing recognizable remains. But underneath all the processing, distortion, code, and noise, there still has to be a pulse. Because Obsolete Humans isn't really about whether machines can make music. It's about what happens to humans when they can. Charles Smith + Lawrence Provenzano are Obsolete Humans. Human written. Human Input. AI shaped. WE ARE OBSOLETE.