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What is needed from Ai is a much quicker way to get your ideas down, and to realize them FULLY. Would love to be able to give it a short one shot, then with a prompt as it to generate tons of variations. I mean I already kinda do that when you throw FX on existing sounds, record it, resample it, etc. I guess it would just be quicker. If I have a specific idea in mind then any tool can only bring that idea about quicker. We also need private Ai, in that we are guaranteed what we might enter into the Ai to alter isn't then available to everyone else. So we end up with our own Ai generated audio libraries that WE own. Say we put a ton of samples we made in some DAW, into the Ai and ask it to mix and match and generate similar samples. We need a guarantee that none of it is available for re-use by others. Where as soon as your synchronize your audio, it's available for everyone else to use. The end product might since it can be copied, but all the materials That went into it's creation, all the iterations, generated samples, prompts, etc etc etc, remain ours privately to use and re-use later as we see fit. Currently however it craps out watered down replicas of probably stolen copyrighted material and free audio materials. For any ai generating software, there should be a master list of all materials that go into it, and if a person chooses so they can have their music taken out of the training materials ( which is a euphemism tech bros use for stolen audio materials). Tho it shouldn't be there in the first place. Ai can be a great tool IF the artists are protected. It needs to work for us, not replace us. But when you live in a corporate hellscape where money is the bottom line, I have little hope for any of it. Ai is currently on track to dilute humanities potential when it could instead bolster it. It's just that people have to give a shit for the second one to come true.

Given the time period I think it's there to add more presence up close in the mix. Much of the album sounds boosted there.

Yes it seems that despite 'progress' and 'time', people are people no matter how advanced technology gets. I often have to remind myself how subjective reality is to many people. The mind constructs reality thru the senses, values and beliefs and seems in many people will show them the reality they want to see and not the real one. To conservatives, all the weird BS they believe in is VERY REAL. In the least they FEEL it's real, and mistake that for the real thing. It's as real and obvious as climate change is to us. Mentally we are having very different experiences day to day than these people. We wonder why they can't see the writing on the wall. Perhaps they are incapable of seeing it? If you are brought up to conform to 'conservative standards' I wonder how much their minds will 'twist' their thoughts to always land on upholding their right-wing beliefs, ignoring evidence to the contrary. I swear my conservative family only pick up on 'signs' they want to pick up on. It's 120 degrees outside? Summer is always hot! There was a summer 100 years ago that was almost as hot as this one in some other country! Fox news said it, which is the only halfway decent news channel. Unless Trump says otherwise of course. When they look at Trump on TV, they see a Giga-Chad, and we see a large orange cheeto. To them he is a man's man sent from heaven and chosen by God to liberate humanity from the woke liberals who want to turn you, your children, and the frogs gay. To us, he is very clearly a slime ball narcissist who knows he controls a cult, and if he hadn't grown up with a silver spoon in his mouth, and was more intelligent, would probably be a full-on dictator like Hitler. We're lucky he is as dumb as he is.

those people should be the example for "Useful Idiots" in the dictionary. I feel like in the history books, this period of time will be known for issues such as Climate Change that could have been mitigated, but weren't due to dumb people who were puppeteered by greedy people for their own gains. I really do hope future generations somehow gain the mental tools needed to see through things like Climate change denial. I think it starts and ends in the classroom. People need more skill in understanding abstract concepts, and in understanding good evidence verses bad evidence ( anecdotal evidence, basic fallacies, etc ) Looking at statistics now though, the change isn't as drastic as it needs to be: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2021/05/26/key-findings-how-americans-attitudes-about-climate-change-differ-by-generation-party-and-other-factors/

A thought would be to fund the creation of a web browser or plugin that would purposely be anti-algorithmic. Any site you go to that psychologically manipulates you into continuing scrolling, I'd find a way to counteract this as much as possible AND to have the option of seeing what the website is doing currently that is trying to make you addicted to it. The world REALLY needs the ability to go online without being subconsciously 'tricked' into continuing to browse. Would help make better the mental health of the younger generations, and everyone's time. I just really foresee it this problem getting BAD in the future when larger and larger portions of society grew up with the constant dopamine and overstimulation of current social media like TikTok. It's kinda like global warming where the effect will be delayed/ignored till it's already a massive problem, and by then it's too late for many. Future generations will look back on this and think just how backward and manipulative it all is. How it's ruining the minds of so many, so obviously, and people just didn't care. I mean it GIVES you symptoms of ADHD and higher neuroticism without it being genetic. Things become boring because their brains need more stimulation, and you can only get that stimulation with a small device. AND they don't really enjoy anyway, it but it doesn't matter as their brains were hacked by age 4 and they can get physical withdrawal without their phone. It's basically drug addiction.

Yeh. I do wonder if I get something more from listening to 'deeper' music over top 40 stuff. If it feeds my soul or something you can't get from 'normal' music. It's about more than just enjoying it. At least it can be for people.

I've been thinking about this lately. When it comes to our fav artists we really hang onto every moment of the track and perceive patterns we really enjoy, but most people aren't like that and can get musical euphoria from much more basic music with a 'good beat' or 'catchy hook'. I ALSO realized recently that those kinds of people get the same level of musical pleasure from a top 40 song as we do from our fav electronic music. I saw someone who really likes Justin Beiber's music say listening to it gives them the experience of bliss and floating on a cloud. It's like, they get a shortcut to musical nirvana and we have to listen to a specific sound at a specific time to have a 10% chance of feeling music nirvana for 10 seconds... at least I do. So from a purely 'pleasurable' perspective the experience of the music is likely similar in intensity. If not less for people like me who likes very particular sounds/compositions. Our brains which are physical things, are simply wired differently.

He's on a quest to get a more lo-fi sound than Analord atm. If someone said it was a track made in the 50s/60s the only thing proving it isn't would be the composition being advanced for that time. Could just be the recordings tho.

I like it, though as an entire package it strikes me as odd. Feels like it would go on an Analord compilation type thing. 'Analord 2 - Disc 01' Interesting how it's the most maximalist Aphex cover art but the most minimalist music released since Analord. Reminds me at times of EOD in terms of sound choice and melody. Also reminds me at times of the music off Goldeneye 64 and Perfect Dark on Nintendo 64. Rfcpt8 should have been on there. Even if it came from a different setup. Maybe even afxfme. I do find it interesting how the EP sounds very EOD, and Rfcpt8/afxfme sounds like Richard. zin2 test5 is disappointing because it feels like it could be twice as long very easily while being further developed. The softly driving rhythm/melody is cool. I kinda wanna remix it and do just that. I dig tracks from 2019 live sets, and the fact that none of them were on here tells me there is more to come. He could easily make 3 or 4 EPs of this length and quality strictly off of what he played in 2019, and it's 4 years on from that. So like I said, the EP strikes me as odd if it really will be the only thing we get for another few years. I AM still happy to get anything.

kinda like this, but with more detail: https://www.notetracks.com/?campaignid=18938359877&adgroupid=146489739569&keyword=comment on music&device=c&gclid=Cj0KCQjwn_OlBhDhARIsAG2y6zMaBSTF5BYCzTo799TjdJlSlJYu8N64lm77ExsnAtv37_vYqrg1cNcaAqzVEALw_wcB I'd also like a way to tag anywhere on any audio (.wav, .mp3, etc) , then i can jump to it if I query the tag in the future. Would be useful for, say I have an hour long Sound Design Session, and if I find something I like at the 30 minute mark I can simply tag it, comment on it, etc. Would also like a built in 'rating' system where I can simply draw how good certain sounds are and where in the audio as a simple line. I am not expecting there to be a program exactly like what I am asking as some of it is very specific. Just seems like there should be one. -BTW, I am not looking for a way to upload it online for others. It's strictly just a way I can describe/tag any audio clip, locally on my computer. - Would be nice if the audio was playable from the software, AND its waveform is viewable to better make the detailed notes. - And another thought I would like would be to be able to 'rate' any part of the track, say with a simple line denoting a '1 out of 10' system. So I can from a glance know which sections I like the most, which sections need the most work, etc. Also can make distinctions between a section that is an 8/10, and some adjacent section that is a 7/10. To better see my thoughts on the audio with detailed notation.

It seems when I think of the future of Ai, exciting and then very pessimistic thoughts come to mind. It feels just so up in the air to an absurd degree. It feels like it could swing entirely one way or the other. I am generally pessimistic about this. Will it just become a tool among many creating a collaboration between human and Ai where both are required, like the techbros developing it suggest, or will it upend human creativity as a whole, to where the only reason not to use Ai in a professional capacity, is just because you enjoy the process of making the music? OR is it more complicated than such black or white thinking? There is another Ai thread about more general Ai stuff, but I am curious specifically of what people think Ai will change creativity.

One that needed two factor authentication every time you went to listen to it.

I dunno. I have the ability to concentrate on one thing for like... all day if it interests me enough. I don't know anyone else like that. Can't tell you how many times people were surprised I've been working on something for many hours and am not bored. Hyperfixation.

Bet this will be on there assuming the theme of the ep will be moody breaks:

This is just my head canon, but if the EP comes out and it is missing 'the best' tracks from his 2019 unreleased stuff. That would tell me he is aiming for an LP of that kind of music. So I think that this release may mirror Syro/Cheetah, except this time Cheetah is coming out first. Or he just felt the need to release something.

Bending Hectic's ending is a lot like the ending for this other Radiohead song:

Here is a live song they played during a soundcheck which sounds fun

I should say they have released songs as singles in the past and included it on the album half a year later, a few times in the 90s. Bending Hectic seems like a no brainer for the album. Then again so did Staircase which was better than King of Limbs for the most part.

Rfc is straight up as good as his earlier ambient music.

Oh....YOU'LL KNOW

Yeah last night it was going round and round in my head, so sleep was a bit difficult

I like to think that the 90s stuff wasn't him deliberately trying to make unique music. He was just making what was in him, and it was rarely aimed at needing to create a new genre or whatever. So now decades later when he is still just making the music he wants to make, which has much the same DNA as his 90s stuff, like he's always done, people can get the wrong impression that he is deliberately trying to make music no one has heard before. And that misconception can underwhelm people when they ASSUME he is concerned with making new genres, and not just making what comes naturally to him.

So which of the live tracks ya think correspond to the tracks off the EP? 12:40 would be Blackbox, and I am guessing 16:48 is the one right after on the EP. 34:30 would also fit in with those tracks

That's really strange. Seems like a no brainer to go on LP2 which Thom has already said they are working on. It's like releasing Paranoid Android as a single, then not including it on Ok Computer. Does not compute. Of all their new tracks only debuted live, it's probably second best behind Just Eyes and Mouth