decibal cooper

Although I have a lot of learning to do on this topic, I do not think that AI will ever be successful in becoming self-aware or intelligent in the same way that a real person is. What is called 'intelligence' in the current buzzword fascination of 'artificial intelligence' is really just some techbro's (or a cadre of the most influential and wealthy techbros), it is just some techbro's understanding of intelligence (and their ability to implement it through software with the aid of all kinds of other tools, I'd imagine mathematics plays a big part, for instance). What this software provides so far, from the samples I've listened to, it just sounds like decent canned music or muzak - in other words stale, sterile, cheap imitation. I really like the point you make about these issue, debates, and questions prompting people to reflect more on their taste and what they like about music instead of just passively listening. When it comes to Aphex or any of the big electronic acts, I agree that the innovation, story, and artist (and above all, maybe, their taste and technical mastery of both their instruments and the recording process) is what drives my fascination and appreciation for the music. Like when I listen to a song like this one below in headphones, I feel pretty confident that it might not even be possible for a machine to recreate, or even come close really, such music on its own. Hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of the human ear and later of music have played a part in the decisions that were made to create even a short throwaway track like this. Even the peculiarity of how the synths are tuned, the rate and depth of the vibrato on the different voices, the mixing choices that led to a very interesting stereo spread that seems to move around during the duration of the track. Sure you can get some kind of cheap muzak imitation of this easy, but imo it will always pale in comparison to the thing itself, the human made music.

teh juice has died reportedly, cancer.

I tried using the app but in the search bar I called it a cunt and asked it to play some Aphex Acid. Error message came back saying my language was 'vulgar' and it could not process. Fuck you computer! What the heck! Just gonna listen to the human version instead

RIP Calvin LeBrun aka Mister Cee. Legendary DJ & Hip Hop producer for Biggie Smalls and Big Daddy Kane. August 17, 1966 - April 10, 2024.

Grover Washington

crescent shaped shadows from eclipse

clouds are really fuggin shid up for my one chance at eclipse enjoyment this decade

Hell yeah! One of my fav Herbie LPs. The opener, and its lush vocorder, were sampled nicely by Dilla here:

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