February 20ths

2/20/2003

Love people with all your heart, but save some for yourself.

2/20/2022, Sunday\

Went for a short photo-shoot. "636":

2/20/2025

What you have to keep in mind about generating anything with AI is that the generations don’t always work. I found that sometimes I have to regenerate things 10 or 20 times so that the music that is created matches what I think it should be. As in spoken or written language there are certain syntaxes that we expect. We don’t have to analyze it as we speak or write because it’s all automatic. A lot of the AI Generations, especially in music don’t make sense, so it takes some skill as a writer to be able to shape it into something that actually works. A part of the skill has to do with curation. If you already have some skill as a musician, one of the skills to pick up is transcription, preferably manually. Of course there are apps that can do everything these days, but again you’re back at square one with raw generations that have to be shaped. Ideally, you want to get it to the point where you can actually make a lead sheet for your song with chords and melody.