April 26ths

 

4/26/1937 was the attack on Guernica

The "seed":

4/26/2014 

 

4/26/2021

Apparently there’s this pop group in in Russia called Cream Soda that writes music using AI and to create their videos. They said that “the sentence or the lyric is the canvas”, which I thought was an interesting metaphor. Their videos are created by having a neural network go out on Google and pull in images then run a filter on them of some kind. I wonder how AI as used in music is going to evolve because I haven't seen much of an evolution over the last five years, perhaps because people aren't using it. Maybe its use and popularity will spur innovation and development. 

4/26/2026: With AI music the lyric drives the music, as it always does. But humans are still better at it].  

4/26/2022

I’ve tried writing music with AI because it’s The New but I can’t stand doing it for more than 30 minutes. I can force myself to intentionally continue with it, but if free will is fully functioning, abandoning it for something more joyful and enriching would seem more intentional. 

 [4/26/2025: What a difference 3 years makes. Generating music with AI can be pretty interesting and fun. But I like to balance it out by writing music manually, even for orchestras and ensembles. Sometimes you can integrate the melodies and riffs from the generated music].