July 16ths
January 16ths 7/16/1997 Interesting interview with Pete Townshend on XRT. I like the idea that music is storytelling, much like what the African Griots do. He said that he thought jazz was the highest musical form. 7/16/2004 Millennium Park finally open. 7/16/2006 “Uncanny Valley” was a term coined by Mashiro Mori to describe the emotional response of humans to robots. He theorized that as a robot became more human-like, the emotional response of humans became increasingly empathetic, until a boundary point where they looked more “zombified” (the perceptual boundary of real and fake). [7/16/2025: I’ve noticed that when I listen to TTS voices, especially in Google NotebookLM, I find myself “entraining” to its logic–thinking along the same lines. This also relates to whether AI music can have soul. I have been emotionally moved by some of the mus...
