July 5ths
January 5ths 7/5/2022 Will AI be “beneficial” to music? The term “beneficial” can be applied when something is used in the general flow of creative output, such as when Bob Dylan “went electric”. AI will similarly have to “go electric” in some way. It wasn’t that Dylan stopped playing an acoustic, but there was a paradigm shift in culture. [7/5/2025: If 2025 was like 1965, it's the year AI music went "electric". But you can still play real instruments. There's this idea that technology destroys purity somehow, or that it's "profane". I loved the Blonde On Blonde album. I wonder if 2025 will be seen in retrospect as a sea change year, as 1966 was.] 7/5/2025 One innuendo is all it takes. What happens to a sound when it reaches 50? Was Big Band still relevant in the 1980s? I think the definition of nostalgia shifts with feelings of "missing out". Since many musicians were influenced by Big Band in the 80s and were still using those kinds o...
