Thanks to witty FB friends:
“La-2a Woman”
“Faders on the Storm”
“Come on, baby, light my peak indicator.”
“Light my Firewire, Touch Me (automation), When the Music’s Over (windows crash) The End (computer died, hard drive failed ) Wintertime Love (hiding in the studio recording)
“Not to touch the mix”
▶ Introducing the Slickest Con Artist of All Time… Or 10 tweets about ChatGPT
▶ “The trend today is certainly toward push-button instruments that offer instantaneous access to predictable sounds, and Buchla has consistently gone in exactly the opposite direction. When we spoke to Don Buchla on the phone recently in connection with some research we were doing, he said he felt that Keyboard, by devoting so much space to such instruments, was fostering some misconceptions about what electronic musical instruments are and are capable of being. We agreed that there were aspects of the question that we had been neglecting, and offered to let him present the other side of the picture.
The Horizons of Instrument Design: A Conversation with Don Buchla
▶ Antarctic and Arctic sounds rarely heard before via BBC
▶ Music Beyond Airports – appraising ambient music, articles by Monty Adkins, Simon Cummings, Axel Berndt, Lisa Colton, Ambrose Field, Ulf A. S. Holbrook, Justin Morey, Richard Talbot & David Toop
Free PDF download here
▶ is this interesting? If so, how about legal?
“Polymath uses machine learning to convert any music library (e.g from Hard-Drive or YouTube) into a music production sample-library. The tool automatically separates songs into stems (beats, bass, etc.), quantizes them to the same tempo and beat-grid (e.g. 120bpm) and analyzes musical structure (e.g. verse, chorus, etc.), key (e.g C4, E3, etc.) and other infos (timbre, loudness, etc.). The result is a searchable sample library that streamlines the workflow for music producers, DJs, and ML audio developers.”
yeech:
“Polymath makes it effortless to combine elements from different songs to create unique new compositions: Simply grab a beat from a Funkadelic track, a bassline from a Tito Puente piece, and fitting horns from a Fela Kuti song, and seamlessly integrate them into your DAW in record time. Using Polymath’s search capability to discover related tracks, it is a breeze to create a polished, hour-long mash-up DJ set. For ML developers, Polymath simplifies the process of creating a large music dataset, for training generative models, etc.”
Effortless lol.
While they include a license to use their code (which infers they have some appreciation for “the law”) it just amazes me how literally no mention is made of even considering the rights of the music that is being used…
▶ Installed new firmware in my vaccine microchips, next minute: