Paul Duarnet

The Trautonium. Invented early 1930s. Just listen to this thing.

I’m sorry why did nobody tell me that Michael Mann was this FILTHY with it? This was network TV?? In 1984?? I’m sorry Miami Vice I was unfamiliar with your game.

Another one courtesy of @CaliPnL

You don’t quite understand Daft Punk’s genius until you see the magic of their sampling twitter.com/NehhLmao/statu…

Without work permits they entered Germany not as working musicians but as ‘students.’ They later gained permits in Hamburg before Harrison was deported for working under age. McCartney & Best were later arrested and deported, leaving Lennon alone in Germany. But apart from that.

its so funny we think of Europe as the sophisticated Old World and then you look at the state of their pop culture in Eurovision and it's like oh they are little babies

this is why being prolific is such a winning strategy. if you're a B average writer, you will sometimes write Cs and As by accident. you can discard the Cs and present the As. you can also study and reverse-engineer the As and improve your average somewhat. just be prolific

The Belle of the balls. So my process on this one was a mix of chatgpt, machine learning and microsoft music maker. I’ve made a little script that makes photoshop talk to blender through the midi grid of cubase.

Yes.

Is the discussion ‘should AI recreate music?’ or is the discussion ‘Why is contemporary music so homogenised & formulaic that it’s really easy to copy?’

The price of turning pro. "So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines." Steve Pressfield's first movie absolutely bombed. "I was crushed. Here I was, forty-two years old, divorced, childless, having given up all normal human pursuits to chase the dream of being a writer. I'm a loser, a phony; my life is worthless, and so am I. My friend Tony Keppelman snapped me out of it by asking if I was gonna quit. Hell, no! "Then be happy. You're where you wanted to be, aren't you? So you're taking a few blows. That's the price for being in the arena and not on the sidelines." That was when I realized I had become a pro. I had not yet had a success. But I had had a real failure." From The War of Art

Real world eval: GPT-4 absolutely crushes Bard in a rap battle

Paul McCartney can’t read or write music. An incredibly simple 113-second display of his creative genius:

@Western_Trad I was legally and culturally forced to spend the majority of my productive hours up to that age chained to a school desk.

rick rubin is our socrates

Autechre just dropped a 5.5 hour mix of "some of the stuff that was floating around us at the time" of the original Artificial Intelligence comp on Warp and my god, I'm not even a fifth through it but here you go autechre.mixlr.com/recordings/197…

Using recorded music in theaters reduced that workforce from 22K live players to 200 recordists. It was an apocalypse. By the 50s, the same had happened to dance hall orchestras, &c. There are fewer working musicians per capita today than at any time in history.

Riffusion, real-time music generation with stable diffusion @huggingface model: huggingface.co/riffusion/riff… project page: riffusion.com/about