If I had to write my #Intro all over again, it might read like this:

· I am a musician (but most people don’t really care).
· I am a COVID-cautious, COVID-conscious person (but most people don’t really care).
· I am scared what climate catastrophe will do to this planet (but most people don’t really care).

So yeah, that makes me pretty lonely.

Theoretically, I am glad that on social media, at least *some* people *do* care.

But social media is so fleeting, and being found and read is such a game of chance that is doesn’t really amount to much. Also, social media is driven by too much input and mostly way too superficial to really have a lasting impact.

I am still grateful for the four to seven people who react, reply, and support what I am doing. But seeing that it’s four to seven out of seven hundred isn’t all too encouraging.

🙏 to the four to seven, anyway.

#Music #Musician #Singer #MultiInstrumentalist #Composer #Lyricist #IndiePop #AltPop #Acoustic #NoAI #NoAutoTune
#COVID #COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #COVIDIsNotOver #LongCOVID #PostCOVID19Syndrome #PASC #ChronicCOVIDSyndrome #CSS #WearAMask #KeepYourDistance #CleanAir
#ClimateCatastrophe #AgeOfExtinction #ParisAccords #FridaysForFuture #LastGeneration

Daily Mail, “Return of the mask”: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-12024167/Expert-urges-public-wear-masks-public-transport-amid-Arcturus-Covid-fears.html
Umair Haque, “The Acceleration of the Age of Extinction”: https://eand.co/the-acceleration-of-the-age-of-extinction-3c387a49f601
The Guardian, “Record ocean temperatures put Earth in ‘uncharted territory’”: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/26/accelerating-ocean-warming-earth-temperatures-climate-crisis

Hej and welcome to my new music-only account.

I write and record pop songs, often very basic, stripped-down and acoustic, I don’t play live (anymore), and I prefer to stay anonymous.

#Intro #Introduction #Music #Musician #Singer #Songwriter #Composer #Lyricist #MultiInstrumentalist #Acoustic #Pop #Indie #LoFi #NoAI #NoAutoTune #NoQuantisation

“Everything is moving in the direction of what you might call snippet culture: a world in which all entertainment has a snack-sized version meant for idly consuming on the subway.”

“After all, the Spotify redesign is one more nail in the coffin of the album. More importantly, it’s another shift toward a world in which ‘content’ is dictated by algorithm.”

“(…) we cobble together experiences rather than engaging with things that have been deliberately, even thoughtfully, put together.”

@meanwell posted this excellent article from The Star: https://www.thestar.com/business/opinion/2023/03/11/spotifys-snippet-culture-redesign-just-another-algorithmic-brick-in-the-wall-of-joyful-discovery.html

The text also quotes a tweet by columnist Kyle Chayka, “Algorithmic feeds have pushed content creators to conform to the acceptable esthetic and cultural average; A.I. generation will just automatically produce that average from the start.” (https://twitter.com/chaykak/status/1620891495502057472)

I will now try to establish two new hashtags to comment on the ongoing threat that music and the arts are facing: #TheReignOfTheAlgorithm #ArtUnderDigitalFire

#Spotify #Streaming #Music #Album #Capitalism #NoAI #AIisNotArt #AINotArt #IAmNotARobot #AvoidAI #NoAIArt #NoMusicLM #NoStableDiffusion #NoDALLE #NoMidjourney #NoAutoTune #NoQuantisation #NoChatGPT

Similar to what DALL-E, Stable Diffusion, or Midjourney do with visual art (simulating a creative process following a text prompt), MusicLM by Google has now set out to destroy music.

https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples

#NoAI #AIisNotArt #AINotArt #IAmNotARobot #AvoidAIArt #NoAIArt #NoMusicLM #NoStableDiffusion #NoDALLE #NoMidjourney #NoAutoTune #NoQuantisation #NoChatGPT

Artists, I want to see you paint on real canvas, draw on real paper. Musicians, I want to hear you play real instruments and sing with your real voices. Writers, I want to read your true words.

#NoAI #AINotArt #IAmNotARobot #NoAIArt #NoStableDiffusion #NoDALLE #NoMidjourney #NoAutoTune #NoQuantisation #NoChatGPT

Background guitar photo by Brett Sayles via Pexels https://www.pexels.com/photo/photography-of-dreadnought-acoustic-guitar-1202130

Auto-Tune kills music — especially vocal performance.

@krig tooted a video by Chris Liepe who strongly criticises the use of the pitch-correction algorithm Auto-Tune on Freddy Mercury’s vocals in the new Queen single “Face it Alone” — and rightfully so.

I re-toot this to get rid of the YouTube link and the associated spying and replace it with the puffyan.us proxy:

https://vid.puffyan.us/watch?v=zi2ut11_dB4

#Music #PopMusic #NoAutoTune #AInotArt #Queen #FreddyMercury