Ben UFO

A masterclass in motion with the multi-genre prowess of Ben UFO at the Downtown stage hosted by @residentadvisor

last Hessle Audio show recording up now, featuring don @stonestarojp with a 100% productions mix, and me rolling through some 160bpm weirdo trax in the first hour soundcloud.com/rinsefm/hessle…

Ben UFO joins the lineup for our next Continuum. Last seen in EC1 for our 25th Birthday, Ben’s return is one you won’t want to miss. Also joining him: RPR Soundsystem, Craig Richards, Gabrielle Kwarteng, Quest, Aurora Halal + more. #benufo #fabriccontinuum

Last night we broadcast this recording from a night in Shenzhen that I've been sitting on since the end of last year Slightly manic uptempo selection reflective of the extremely fun freakazoid energy of Oil's audience, and their wicked soundsystem. I've always had such a good time DJing in China - shout out to Yu Su, Youpo and Knopha! on.soundcloud.com/LaZKZPMaGtktyb…

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Hessle Audio show broadcasting on Rinse FM in half an hour! This week we're broadcasting a section of my closing set in the grove at Sustain Release '25 :) Shout out to the amoeba! Thanks for listening!

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here's yesterday's show - two hours of mostly new music mixed by me soundcloud.com/rinsefm/hessle… thanks for listening! was great to be back in the studio

@tedkmode I totally agree, i said the same thing relating to audio work recently

@BenUFO For instance. What’s so different from that then if they were to generate whole movies with Gemini? Just ppl losing their jobs more or less

i dont think any of these AI related questions are remotely simple a lot of my favourite music is repetitive, uncomplicated, electronic, instrumental - the actual music would be easily replicable basically, the value of the music exists separately attached to context and memory. i worry about the potential for erasure of context and collective memory i imagine similar conversations happening when sample based electronic instruments started getting really good - some purists probably still think it’s really easy to tell the difference between spitfire and a real recording session - i can probably tell more often than not i think, but would definitely make mistakes - but most people just aren’t considering that question at all, it’s not relevant to them in how they consume music, and similarly i think in the future the people who will be really concerned with trying to figure out what’s been generated (and which aspects, to what degree) will be in the minority of listeners. to a lot of young people even the question will feel antiquated.

we'll have to wait and see i guess, but i find it hard to imagine that we won't see a lot of changes in the next few years given what's already happening in music and visual art, which is what my posts are concerned with. and the success or failure of the technology in those fields doesn't have much to do with whether the financial bubble of it all bursts

@BenUFO No like how VR headsets, self driving cars, crypto, NFTs, the “internet of things”, google glass, the “metaverse”, all turned out to be novelty bullshit to forestall the diminishing or non existent rates of profit from the post ZIRP Silicon Valley economy. Not a good analogy

@tedkmode like how the internet failed to completely transform our lives after the dot com bubble burst you mean?

@BenUFO Actually the bubble is going to pop once the returns on SoftBank and co’s investments inevitably fail to materialize and some new expensive bullshit becomes better for quarterly returns and stock prices, and we’ll be left with a hollowed out deadender niche market like crypto

@thecollegehill haha let's see. it's sort of a challenge to myself

@BenUFO well DJs having no taste is a different issue that we've been dealing with for years lol when it comes to DJs who care about good music (like you), i don't think there's much risk of stumbling on a pure AI banger b/c of the reasons in this thread x.com/thecollegehill…

@thecollegehill i think where we're missing each other is possibly in optimism/pessimism around audience expectations and standards i don't have much faith in DJs as anything other than avatars at this point

@BenUFO with dance music, the DJ is a middleman that presumably has a good ear filters also don't have the issue of having no underlying structure since the vocalist is providing those, so they always sound better. see also: the fake Kendrick song someone used an AI filter for

for sure but how much of the audience cares about that? the playboi carti thing was interesting, some of his audience seemed upset by the idea that they might have used vocal models on the LP, but it seemed to pass most people by, and i didn't see it mentioned in any album reviews for example

@BenUFO the fact that AI models are randomly generating audio means that they can't accurate simulate a 303 filter, repeat the exact audio of an amen break sample, etc

I'm not really talking about the potential for the models to produce inspiring, meaningful work on their own - it does seem realistic to me that the deluge of average, meaningless wallpaper music drowns out everything else and makes it increasingly difficult for an already internet- fried audience to make connections and find meaning in music

@BenUFO By which mechanism do you fear that a statistical algorithm will be able to produce inspired music? It certainly isn't an LLM, it certainly isn't the basic signal processing algorithms used for years by audio engineers. So what is the mechanism? Nobody can even guess right now.

@noamauerabch in a performance context the dance music scene has neatly demonstrated that most people care more about personality, appearance and spectacle over music

@BenUFO AI could definitely have that social-cultural knowledge, to an even larger extent than humans. I'd say the only stronghold DJs have is the 'feeling the room'. Everything else is, in practice, replaceable