October 31sts
10/31/1978
On Kawara, from the 'Today" series.
{What I'm doing essentially with the Songday series.]
Bill Laswell: The only way to arrive at something different is now by combining things.
[10/31/2024: In retrospect, the beginning of Remix at the leading edge of the internet].
10/31/2004
In music, you can leave out a repeat of a melody and their brains will still hear it. (Phantom effect). You can also hear this phenomenon when you hear someone playing a solo with implied chord changes.
10/31/2005
Melissa Etheridge, recovering from breast cancer, was interviewed on TV. She was talking about the crossroads in her life. (If you present yourself with Crossroads, it doesn’t give you the option of a third choice, which can become a shell game, and you’ll have to always wonder about whether the other two were better options. With a crossroad, you only regret once).
[A mystic’s interesting view]
10/31/2019
Snow on Halloween.
10/31/2023
When I’ve used ChatGPT to generate lyrics for pre-existing musical ideas, it generates lyrics with a completely different prosody. The A-B comparison is quite remarkable. I can tell the difference and always go with my original idea. You could take the generated lyric and use it to write another piece. The Boomy app is also interesting to generate ideas but the results are too random and require lots of editing. Editing might involve playing against the generated music, in which case you’ll have something similar but mostly different. Whether a layperson can tell the difference between two pieces of music that have been similarly produced, I think they couldn’t because of a similar production. But certainly one can tell the difference between a grainy, warbled music made from samples and something through-composed. As to classical music, it might be more difficult to tell them apart, simply by the nature of the music. For example, baroque music tends to sound like baroque music using the same instrumentation. Generative classical is easier because of its instrumental typology, as opposed to pop music which is infinitely more varied in terms of sounds used.
[10/31/2025: What would be useful for me in my AI hybrids is to use a “seed” MIDI file that has all the instructions for making a piece, particularly unique chord changes that would arise from playing a guitar or piano. Current AI music typically has cliche chord changes].
10/31/2024
It's so frustrating when you know you've had an interesting dream but can't recall any details. But I did hear an angelic voice (on Halloween?)
Thousands of Tiny Cuts (Cats)
Thousands of Tiny Cuts (Cats) (10-31-2024) by meta4s
It is easy to imagine a future where everyone in the audience is an AI artist, and they'd all be going to concerts to see "their work" performed. Art won't really require any skills or individual cleverness or cunning. Artists won't be interviewed because there would be nothing to talk about, as everyone's process is the same.
Comments
Post a Comment