I wrote this close to a year ago and just found it in my notes app, and I feel it more than ever so I thought id post it
I’ve been thinking for a while, the opposite of AI music maybe isnt human music. It’s making music.
The process is the magic. I think anyone whos been lucky enough to make music, or make anything, has been able to feel this in different ways since forever.
I think this is maybe why ive felt no pull whatsoever to even try it. I place so so so much of my identity in that process, and I haven’t found that to be a negative place to put it.
So I have really no desire to do less of that bit. Because that bit is kind of where I find myself most clearly
and it’s also my meditation, daily compass. Giving the process bit to a machine would be intrinsically contrary to what I love about the whole thing.
The clumsy dedicated tumbling towards an idea isss the thing we are most lucky to get to do. The hours and hours and years and years of endlessly trying to make the thing you wish could exist.
Theres lot of things im worried about AI threatening, but that will never be one.
What happened to me is bigger than one artist or one stage. When the billionaire class can decide which voices are allowed on stage and which ones are too dangerous to hear, everyone should be paying attention.
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BREAKING: EVERY scheduled opening act on Ed Sheeran’s Loop Tour has now withdrawn after Macklemore was dropped over his pro-Palestinian remarks.
Aaron Rowe, Lukas Graham and Finneas have all pulled out, while Sheeran’s touring band Beoga has also quit. Each cited solidarity with Macklemore, Palestinians, or opposition to artists being silenced.