March 8ths

3/8/2002

It was the advent of FM radio that made a big impact on how music developed in the late 60s and 70s.

3/8/2010

Post on FB re death of radio: I too "heard it on the X"—Chicago's XRT. That was the station I listened to when I picked up my first guitar. It was an auspicious beginning of my music education and vestiges of it remain in my work. But nostalgia aside, I will not miss broadcast radio. XRT is now just a shell of its former self, consisting of a mostly relentless and torturous barrage of screaming commercials. I now time-shift almost all my media with podcasts, which I can re-listen to at any time, and it still sounds like broadcast radio. The profit model in this approach is that people like me are willing to pay for this service, as a return to radio in its current state is unthinkable.

3/8/2013

Stopped Smoking

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/8/2025

More on Hadju's An Uncanny Muse"

"A writer for the Christian Science Monitor captured the doubts about player pianos well in a piece published in 1911: “It gives them, who can't have a living player play, a sort of photographic idea of how music might sound. Still it is not art. It occupies the same relation to art that a photograph of an oil painting does to the painting itself. It plays Ragtime exceptionally well and entertains a great many people who do not necessarily care for musical art.” 

[AI-generated music is essentially like a photograph of actual music being played by musicians,  as a photograph would be of a painting, it's a reproduction. But in the case of AI-generated music it's a unique photograph that isn't representational. It's not representing anything specific in the sense that if I take a photograph of a flower I'm re-presenting it. But with artificial intelligence it's finding thousands of different flowers based upon your text prompt. In music, it's taking a musical sample and mapping a melody based on your text over it. It would actually be interesting to have a camera or app that would do this kind of thing that would take your description and combine it with the photograph that you're taking and make something new out of it. This probably exists already.]