Re: the "effort" of making music being audible to the audience
Years ago, I was at work listening to a Phillip Glass recording, which consisted of eight or so people playing similar, yet not identical musical phrases in sync with each other at high speed for ten minutes at a stretch. It's very difficult to play something like that while everyone around is playing a slight variation of it that only lines up with what you're playing once every 8 cycles (or whatever) while maintaining a count of where you are in the section and where you are in the piece. One of my workmates said "Oh, I can just do that with the 'arpeggiator' function on my keyboard (which allows you to just hold down all the keys in the sequence while the keyboard cycles through them in perfect time)--why do all that work?" I contended that the effort and slight inconsistencies of having people try to play the score perfectly where part of the beauty of the recording, but he was having none of it.
Not long afterwards he took a high paying position at noted guardian of artist rights, Spotify.
Re: Close Encounters of the Third Kind musical motif
The five notes correspond to the five syllable movie tagline "We Are Not Alone".
Re: Henson's handmade puppets
I saw an exhibit of them a few years ago, and they all look amazingly cheap in person. Old style TV hides a lot. Also, all the actual Frank Lloyd Wright pieces I've seen in person are really sloppy fit and finish but somehow photograph marvelously.
I’ll be interested in AI when it can do something practical: clean the house, fix dinner, do my tax return, cure horrible diseases. I don’t need it to paint for me, or write, or make music. That’s the fun part of life. AI should deal with the drudgery or take care of things that humans just can’t.
On your recommendation, I listened to the John Williams interview and watch Art Happens Here with John Lithgow. What uplifting programs! Thank you for the heads up.
Re: the "effort" of making music being audible to the audience
Years ago, I was at work listening to a Phillip Glass recording, which consisted of eight or so people playing similar, yet not identical musical phrases in sync with each other at high speed for ten minutes at a stretch. It's very difficult to play something like that while everyone around is playing a slight variation of it that only lines up with what you're playing once every 8 cycles (or whatever) while maintaining a count of where you are in the section and where you are in the piece. One of my workmates said "Oh, I can just do that with the 'arpeggiator' function on my keyboard (which allows you to just hold down all the keys in the sequence while the keyboard cycles through them in perfect time)--why do all that work?" I contended that the effort and slight inconsistencies of having people try to play the score perfectly where part of the beauty of the recording, but he was having none of it.
Not long afterwards he took a high paying position at noted guardian of artist rights, Spotify.
Re: Close Encounters of the Third Kind musical motif
The five notes correspond to the five syllable movie tagline "We Are Not Alone".
Re: Henson's handmade puppets
I saw an exhibit of them a few years ago, and they all look amazingly cheap in person. Old style TV hides a lot. Also, all the actual Frank Lloyd Wright pieces I've seen in person are really sloppy fit and finish but somehow photograph marvelously.
Great article in support of slow and real human art! I'm following you now on IG as emma_art_mm
Yes i'm thoroughly sick of AI. Keep pushing back and celebrating art and human creativity!
I’ll be interested in AI when it can do something practical: clean the house, fix dinner, do my tax return, cure horrible diseases. I don’t need it to paint for me, or write, or make music. That’s the fun part of life. AI should deal with the drudgery or take care of things that humans just can’t.
On your recommendation, I listened to the John Williams interview and watch Art Happens Here with John Lithgow. What uplifting programs! Thank you for the heads up.