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‘In The Style Of’: Perspectives On Creativity From AI-Based Text, Image, and Music Generators
“Innovation, like evolution, is a process of constantly discovering ways of rearranging the world into forms that are unlikely to arise by chance—and that happen to be useful.” Matt Ridley, How Innovation Works “The higher the creativity component of a profession, the more likely it is to have disconnected inputs and outputs.” Naval Ravikant In Continue reading
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Database: Laurel Halo On Keeping Your Own Sound At The Core
“For me it usually starts off with either coming up with a chord progression I haven’t quite heard before, a beat I haven’t heard before, a new type of sample. I’m always just trying out new things – Hour Logic is quite different from King Felix, which is quite different from the things I’ve done Continue reading
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Brett’s Sound Picks: Neil Cowley’s “Cord” (2023)
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Playing An Instrument, Playing A DAW, Omnimusicality
I’ve been thinking about how playing an acoustic musical instrument can be a model for producing music in DAW software. As I hear it, producers who approach their DAWs as instruments develop novel and idiosyncratic ways of creatively playing the technology rather than merely using it. This post compares the experiences of playing an instrument Continue reading
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Art About Music: Peter Doig’s “Music Shop”, “Music (2 Trees)”, “House of Music (Soca Boat)” (2019-2023)
Music Shop Music (2 Trees) House of Music (Soca Boat) Continue reading
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