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MathOfInsects

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  1. That guy drops pearls of wisdom like some people clear their throats. Thanks for posting.
  2. I've told this before, but here's an object lesson in how "out" is only "out" if there's an "in": When I first started playing my original songs in NY, I was using a lot of jazz guys in the band. One day I was teaching them a new song, and I could tell I'd potentially dropped them off my chart, so I played an off-the-rack C triad in root position--C, C-E-G--just to make really clear where we were. I swear to Flying Spaghetti Monster, the bass player, who had been reading his chart, whipped his head up and leaned over to look at my hands, and said, "Ooh, that's a beautiful voicing. What was that?"
  3. As long as you don't dead-key the original song.
  4. "Deadnaming" isn't referring to someone as a name they went by at a particular time--e.g., "Caitlyn Jenner first came into the public eye as the Olympic decathlete Bruce Jenner." It's intentionally continuing to call them that in contexts that occur after they have transitioned and told you their preferred name, as some sort of refusal or power move. "Bruce Jenner can call himself whatever he wants, he's still just a dude in a dress as far as I'm concerned." A couple of my closest musical friends (a couple) took in her nephew after that nephew's family refused to call him by his transitioned name. He tried to kill himself, and knew that the only option was to move out of his home and in with anyone who would accept him. It might be a newer concept for some of us, but that's neither here nor there, right? It's pretty easy just to call someone by the name they introduce themselves as.
  5. I'm not sure if it's only an American term, but we call it, in the aggregate, European Art Music, or EAM.
  6. Behringer Doley Beato Hiromi Hip-hop Boomer X-stand OK, there goes that theory.
  7. I would bet that generative AI would actually be superior to expanding/expounding on a mistake than people are. The options would be nearly endless, and would, based on past examples, almost certainly be justified-sounding and interesting. What it won't do is expose anything human about the "generator," and IMO that will forever remain true. The bottom line is, if we're able to be copied and replicated so frighteningly, we just have to up our game. The real reason people are scared isn't because of lofty societal reasons, IMO, but because generative AI has the potential to expose us as creatively lazy and predictable, and we've been able to make money and have careers built on some degree of sleight of hand. Generative AI is the product of our own recursivity. So we need to double down and be uncopyable. That's all upside IMO.
  8. "Classical" in the strictest terms refers to the 70-year or so period during which Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven lived and composed, and the term isn't local to music, it's social/cultural/artistic. So many of the composers mentioned in this thread aren't "Classical" in the strict sense. But most people use the term to loosely refer to any and all "art" music from Bach on...which is why it's so hard to say any one thing about it. Most Classicists would find Schumann static and non-complex, just as Schumann would have found it stodgy and meaningless to write in the style of the Classical era composers. The history of European Art Music is a series of relationships with tonality and resolution. That very brief 70 years formed many our enduring ideas about the meaning of a home key, and how we wander away from it and return to it over time. It is VERY closely aligned, metaphorically, with the way Europe viewed (and comported) itself at the time, and as the era of Europe as the world's "homeland" began to wane, so did composers' interest in blindly reinforcing a "home key" as the organizing characteristic of long-form (or even short-form) composition. It is still disconcerting to Western ears to hear prolonged dissonance or atonality, so that amazing 70-year period still stands up to repeated listening and interpretation. Funny enough, even though I grew up playing classical music, in a family of classical musicians, I greatly prefer stuff that's "in the cracks." So it's Late Romantic Era for me all the way, into 20th-century stuff.
  9. @Dave Bryce, what are the other banned words? I mean, with an asterisk or two where needed, of course.
  10. I'm purely interested in hearing/knowing how the internal sim compares to other internal or outboard sims.
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