HeyJaredWatching Rome Burn
writing about arts (primarily music, literature and film), philosophy, theology, politics, personal memoir
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AI and Artists (opens the original)
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Artists of all stripes are worried that our creations will be supplanted by AI. There are immediate material implications. In my neck of the woods, musicians now must reckon with software like Moises, which, for example, can write a serviceable big band arrangement of an existing song. The craft of orchestration and arrangement, which musicians have studied in an academic environment or otherwise, does not have the same financial premium. Software can deliver something in a fraction of the time.
Fantasy & Reveries (opens the original)
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Hello everyone, thanks for tuning in! I wanted to share news of my next release, Fantasy & Reveries. This is a piano solo record of my compositions. The record begins with an extended piece, “Fantasy,” and then continues with “14 Reveries” - fourteen shorter pieces which make up a group and evoke the mood of reverie. From my liner notes, I’ve written:“As the “reverie” description suggests, the music might accompany those moments during waking hours,
Dialogue between younger artist and older artist, and then they merge… (opens the original)
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Younger artist: “I’m fretting.”Older artist: “Tell me.”Younger artist: “I’m pouring my being into my work. I want it to reach the world. But I don’t know if anyone is even listening, if they even care.”Older artist: “I hear you.”Y.A.: “No, you don’t.”O.A.: “Touché! Tell me. I’m listening.”Y.A.: “Don’t patronize me.”O.A.: “I’
2:37 AM upon turning 56 (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedYour head hits the pillow you look back on the day “Did I do what’s right? Did I do what I can?” You talk to your God and muse on the Devil and wonder what it means to be a true Samaritan When you look at yourself how you took for yourself what you wanted to give you don’t feel Zen There’s a hairline fracture in the choices you make between what you prefer and what you forsake The more real you get the less real you feel you
Elliott Smith revisited (opens the original)
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Thanks for tuning in, dear reader. This post is a hybrid. First off, I wanted to mention some very exciting gigs I have coming up at the end of the month. I will be performing the music from my last release, Ride into the Sun, with some of the key musicians who appeared on the record: Mandolinist and singer Chris Thile, drummer Matt Chamberlain, bassist John Davis (who also engineered and mixed the record) and orchestral conductor Dan Coleman. Extra-cool is the opportunity to work with Blake Mil
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