Category: Music
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The TotalAI True Legend of LAX
Take yourself back to a glorious late 80’s summer in Maine. The writing was on the wall. Two childhood friends, just out of high school, now separated by distance, realized they would never again play music in front of a live audience. The solution was obvious. Record a punk rock masterpiece using cutting edge four…
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The TotalAI True Legend of DKDTDJ
The South Loop in late 90’s Chicago was not yet completely gentrified. Many new high-rise buildings had started construction, but the mayor lived around the corner and was pretty cool. Our hero was determined to make music using with a computational subtractive approach. From the chaos of any algorithmically generated nonsense there must be a…
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“Were The Beatles AI?” Right. And I suppose Elvis was a ToAIster.
Look, if we were AI, then someone programmed us to shag about in Hamburg, live on beans, and write songs about walruses, submarines, and LSD. What kind of silicon chip dreams that up? We didn’t need algorithms — we had Ringo. You can’t code that kind of drumming. Believe me, they’ve tried. Besides, if we…