March 28ths

3/28/2024

Drop 31 songs. Interesting: It has nothing to do with AI, yet is more innovative. AI is supposed to look like the future (as it does in dystopian films) but lacks real innovation. I doubt the musical AI churn will ever sound innovative, and thus really is not the future.

[3/28/2025: What a difference even 6 months makes. I’ve already spun out at least 50 AI tracks. Is it innovative? No. Is it interesting and fun? Yes.]

3/28/2025

The routine for almost the past year is to go through the diaries and find riffs for new pieces of music. This morning I used a title idea from 3/28/2004, “The First Thing I’d Do”. This process will never be able to be done by AI. You can ask it to generate a rhythm, perhaps based on words as I'm doing now, but it will never be the same. But at the same time, you can compare them and decide whatever works better as a compelling piece of music. These A-B comparisons are interesting to do. Perhaps both will be equally as good. But like a Chicago deep dish pizza, you can't replicate it at home, the corollary being AI won’t have je ne sais quoi. Humans always hold the trade secrets or imprimatur for consciousness.

 A doowop version: