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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.
  11. If someone's music is truly in danger of being replaced by AI, then AI isn't the problem.
  12. Just bumping this so there aren't two competing threads with the same content.
  13. If you have the board on fluid view, it will decide on its own every few days to hide the rest of the forums from you. You have to reselect them to view them again.
  14. Congrats! I think there is already thread for this, but while you're top-of-forum, I'll ask: how do you like the internal sim?
  15. I said post, not comment. But I believe this clarifies--it's mostly about that post, is that right? As far as "comments by people who have never even met Beato," that would be most of the people on the planet, yes? Whether they are saying good things or bad things, people are responding to him as a social media media personality--a persona, not a person. He seems like a nice dude! But no one's reviewing him as a person.
  16. I think that (accurate) statement also means that it's not reasonable, when starting yet another thread about him, to act surprised when the discussion heads to the only place it ever goes. I think the polarizing aspect of Beato (and I want to reiterate that I don't dislike him, I just don't spark to his content as some do) is completely in the generational struggle. Beato validates a lot of concerns or fears or beliefs among folks that the music of "their" period was better than the music of today. I think for them, there's finally someone saying all the things they believe--that this 1970 guitar solo is the best ever, or that that 1976 rock song is the best ever, etc. He's describing things in the terms of their first exposure to this stuff, and I think it feels comfortable and "right." For those who don't like his content as much, that is also the exact reason for it. This board skews toward the first contingent, so it can be easy and comfortable to forget about the worldview and experiences of rest of the demographic here (and everywhere). And never the twain, etc.
  17. I've seen the term "behavior" come up several times now. Can someone clarify what the "behavior" is? Is it some people saying that they don't enjoy Beato's videos as much as others do, and giving a reason or two? Or is it really about that one kneepad post?
  18. Sure. And exactly one person said that, four or five pages into the thread. The entirety of the rest of the ("negative") response was completely innocuous, and yet has been treated as some kind of crime against social propriety. However, while it was phrased bluntly, that's a completely valid complaint to make against an interviewer. It gets made all the time, on all levels, by appreciators and detractors alike. There were whole SNL skits based around James Lipton's fawning fluff-pieces at the Actor's School (is that the right name?). And "valid" or not, it's still completely valid as an opinion of an interviewer. What is the transgression that you guys are being so fragile about? Different people have different opinions. Period. I've never seen an obituary that said, "Died of other people not liking the same youtubers as him." No one's telling you not to like him even if they don't. Let people have their say, and go on having yours. No kittens will die. We got this, brethren.
  19. Holy cow. We're all on this board because we have one (1) thing in common: an interest in keyboards. Beyond that, we're all different people, with different backgrounds and different preferences. Ultimately this is a DISCUSSION board. People are free and encouraged to mention why they do or don't like things. It's literally the entire concept behind the existence of these boards (which are a form of social media) and (spoiler alert) behind real-life discussions. If you like Beato's videos, that's great. Go watch them and enjoy! Come here and tell us why. If you don't, that's great too. No one's obligated to like something just because other people like it. Tell us "why" about that, too. Let's not be self-important enough to imagine that our opinion on this board means a single thing. If you post that you like Beato's videos, that isn't going to be the thing that really makes his career take off. Same as if you post that you don't. There is a mountain of self-denial going on, here. Post after post trolling "the haters" or some new technology that scares you, IS hate--and it's far more personal, IMO, than someone saying "Oh, I don't like that guy's videos." Just like what you like and accept that there are people in the world with opinions that are different from yours. Ideally, you'll seek those opinions out so you don't get too cozy in the echo chamber of agreement and validation. But either way, let's not delude ourselves that just because we think something, anyone who thinks something different is somehow suspect or vindictive. We're all a little long in the teeth here for that kind of magical thinking.
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