William FieldsIt feels like the right time for me to move away from the generative/algorithmic and back towards improvisation.
Daniel M Karlsson@williamfields Please tell me what has led you to this decision.
@t36s I realized that I started to depend too much on the machine to make music for me. I became too much of a passive consumer of an endless generative stream of music. It started to feel dehumanized and overwhelming. I would sit there hitting the button over and over again like I was addicted to a slot machine.
And it felt like a microcosm of what is happening in the wider world, with AI slop and endless feeds. It started to feel gross.
After I made that decision and posted that, I watched this video, which captures a lot about what I was feeling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future
@williamfields I want you to be happy when you're making music. Life is too short to be doing this weird music and try to go against what you feel is right for you.
I'm thinking guilt by association is getting stronger. I imagine how the idea of working with algorithms makes people think now. Being deprived of a livelihood, or worse a bomb dropped on them because of algorithms. People write algorithms. I write code to organize sound. Took me forever to get here and I'm just getting started