Apr 28, 2023·edited Apr 28, 2023Liked by Aleksandar Svetski
It is no accident that for some time now 'hits' have come and gone without leaving any impression on the culture. Just an indistinguishable cacaphony of resampled beats derived from mathematical algorithms to create 'hits' by hacking the thickest common denominator in the middle of the bell curve. And yet ... And yet.... When an old song comes on, something from the pre-algorithmic age, something imbued with the soul and energy of human artists, you see the ears perk up, even the young sing along. I have seen this many times.
There is something universal to humanity, something that is also accessible to the middle of the bell curve, that is not at all 'elite', which cannot be replicated by the machine because it is not in any sense reducible to mathematics. We instinctively respond to it. And while it cannot be quantified our souls feel its absence the way our bodies feel the absence of micronutrients in processed foods ... With the compulsive eating that comes from the latter, which arises from the inability of the artificial to satisfy the full range of our hunger, being precisely mirrored in the compulsive autostimulation of this empty modern music.
In the stacked function of the music industry, money is certainly close to central. But cultural manipulation is the core objective. After reading JP Farrell’s “Microcosm and Medium”, it became clear that art is coherent human communication and so called modern art reduced information content even tho it was clever and beautiful in a subjective sense. High Art communicates passion and meaning, it is epistemological, and low art is low because it is fashioned to fool you that it is art but is not because its information content and coherence is so low. As to motivation, starting in the 1950’s, baritone and bass voiced singers could not get contracts with major labels anymore. Why, because art is programming. And the planned reprogramming of the culture required the deemphasis of masculinity and reduced testosterone expression. Bad music makes bad people. Bad paintings dissociate the observer. Bad sculpture (like Boston) is degrading to everyone who sees it.
But JP Farrell makes a very good case that this was all intended, in my view, to crush the individual. As a German professor at Stanford said, “The future is the herd.”. All the nano and wifi, along with bad art and music play well together. See the picture??
Personally I welcome the arrival of ai generated "music" , "art" and what ever else it produces. I love how my pet chatgpt ai allows me to pretend I have 5 mediocre employees spewing forth corporate product, giving me a huge increase in work capacity.
Producing 10x more, at the same cost is amazing. So what will happen now that the cost structure is so radically changed? Well, a 90% reduction in cost generally leads to a huge increase in demand.
The ai generated music, is perfect for corporate utility, and the cost of it gives me the means to produces music to go with product videos or what else. Is this artistry? Well obviously no.
Demand for true artistry will thus increase in leaps, forcing the mediocre mass produced shit to be considered "corporate ", bland and boring, and inhuman. Ie other words, corporate. Music for product videos in my webshop.
Which is exact what modern "music" already was, so this just strips the pretensions away.
Addendum. Modern "art" is nothing more than a drug money laundering and tax evasion scheme. The sooner midjourney kills it the better, just like how this ai is finally going to kill the record labels.
It is no accident that for some time now 'hits' have come and gone without leaving any impression on the culture. Just an indistinguishable cacaphony of resampled beats derived from mathematical algorithms to create 'hits' by hacking the thickest common denominator in the middle of the bell curve. And yet ... And yet.... When an old song comes on, something from the pre-algorithmic age, something imbued with the soul and energy of human artists, you see the ears perk up, even the young sing along. I have seen this many times.
There is something universal to humanity, something that is also accessible to the middle of the bell curve, that is not at all 'elite', which cannot be replicated by the machine because it is not in any sense reducible to mathematics. We instinctively respond to it. And while it cannot be quantified our souls feel its absence the way our bodies feel the absence of micronutrients in processed foods ... With the compulsive eating that comes from the latter, which arises from the inability of the artificial to satisfy the full range of our hunger, being precisely mirrored in the compulsive autostimulation of this empty modern music.
Peak empty late stage fiat culture.
In the stacked function of the music industry, money is certainly close to central. But cultural manipulation is the core objective. After reading JP Farrell’s “Microcosm and Medium”, it became clear that art is coherent human communication and so called modern art reduced information content even tho it was clever and beautiful in a subjective sense. High Art communicates passion and meaning, it is epistemological, and low art is low because it is fashioned to fool you that it is art but is not because its information content and coherence is so low. As to motivation, starting in the 1950’s, baritone and bass voiced singers could not get contracts with major labels anymore. Why, because art is programming. And the planned reprogramming of the culture required the deemphasis of masculinity and reduced testosterone expression. Bad music makes bad people. Bad paintings dissociate the observer. Bad sculpture (like Boston) is degrading to everyone who sees it.
But JP Farrell makes a very good case that this was all intended, in my view, to crush the individual. As a German professor at Stanford said, “The future is the herd.”. All the nano and wifi, along with bad art and music play well together. See the picture??
Personally I welcome the arrival of ai generated "music" , "art" and what ever else it produces. I love how my pet chatgpt ai allows me to pretend I have 5 mediocre employees spewing forth corporate product, giving me a huge increase in work capacity.
Producing 10x more, at the same cost is amazing. So what will happen now that the cost structure is so radically changed? Well, a 90% reduction in cost generally leads to a huge increase in demand.
The ai generated music, is perfect for corporate utility, and the cost of it gives me the means to produces music to go with product videos or what else. Is this artistry? Well obviously no.
Demand for true artistry will thus increase in leaps, forcing the mediocre mass produced shit to be considered "corporate ", bland and boring, and inhuman. Ie other words, corporate. Music for product videos in my webshop.
Which is exact what modern "music" already was, so this just strips the pretensions away.
Works as in ASS-FUCKS you? Is that what you mean?
ALl AI videos & Images are 'disturbing', music is different only say a trained ear might find the dissonance to make you insane;
https://bilbobitch.substack.com/p/generative-ai-the-new-hollywood-images
Addendum. Modern "art" is nothing more than a drug money laundering and tax evasion scheme. The sooner midjourney kills it the better, just like how this ai is finally going to kill the record labels.