maybe AI music will become something like that: the art of capturing a moment, instantly, in music. maybe it'll be more like italian brainrot, enabling a network of evolving interconnected musical memes. it'll probably be neither of those! the niche must emerge
i'm really enjoying the @its_adamneely@CosmicSkeptic podcast. so cool to hear a musician-philosopher and a philosopher-musician get into the modern philosophy of generated music.
i do think adam holds a difficult position trying to resist AI while endorsing plunderphonics
like let's be real, photography functionally killed photorealistic painting. but painting survived and became more interesting for it, and photography moved on from replacing traditional portraits and landscapes and became the art of finding a moment
Oh Holy Night is my favourite christmas song. Someone accused me of flouting the holiness of the holiday with this one, but i think of it as telegraphing reverence for the unearthly powers of the universe
the total streamed hours here is a bit over three years which means that at any given moment there are on average 3 people listening to an a capella science track on spotify