digital art frames

https://www.niio.com/

$800-1800
https://www.samsung.com/us/televisions-home-theater/tvs/the-frame/highlights/

$550 - 660
https://www.nimbusframe.com/pricing/

Destino - Salvador Dali + Disney

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destino

music patterns across cultures

Study Reveals Music's Universal Patterns Across Societies Worldwide (reuters.com)19

Posted by msmash on Saturday November 30, 2019 @12:01AM from the we-are-all-alike dept.

From love songs to dance tunes to lullabies, music made in disparate cultures worldwide displays certain universal patterns, according to a study by researchers who suggest a commonality in the way human minds create music. From a report:The study focused on musical recordings and ethnographic records from 60 societies around the world including such diverse cultures as the Highland Scots in Scotland, Nyangatom nomads in Ethiopia, Mentawai rain forest dwellers in Indonesia, the Saramaka descendants of African slaves in Suriname and Aranda hunter-gatherers in Australia. Music was broadly found to be associated with behaviors including infant care, dance, love, healing, weddings, funerals, warfare, processions and religious rituals. The researchers detected strong similarities in musical features across the various cultures, according to Samuel Mehr, a Harvard University research associate in psychology and the lead author of the study published in the journal Science. "The study gives credence to the idea that there is some sort of set of governing rules for how human minds produce music worldwide. And that's something we could not really test until we had a lot of data about music from many different cultures," Mehr said.

procreate reference

https://procreate.art/support

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https://bardotbrush.com

intro

https://youtu.be/EI-ToB0tG9A

masking tutorial

https://youtu.be/uo-dLMmViqw

this same channel has other good procreate tutorials

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSNvnDVDjyfr8zKZMGcjvlg/videos

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matt screen protector for surface texture

https://www.amazon.com/Klearlook-Tempered-Protector-Compatible-Touch-Sensitive/dp/B07YD586VJ/ref=sr_1_4?keywords=Klearlook+10.2+ipad&qid=1574101660&sr=8-4

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apple pencil

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205236

https://www.imore.com/apple-pencil-ultimate-guide

guide

https://youtu.be/lRe38domkUM

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File back up

new features, backup

https://youtu.be/kadDF6eoM_E

https://youtu.be/GyGkp7ZWLSM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxO2HMufoFU&t=11s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VykCTP2K9A0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAz7jX_fb-A

https://youtu.be/m172MAj5QvM

3d printed fractals, animation

https://youtu.be/S530Vwa33G0

https://www.shapeways.com/shops/3Dfractals?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Blimit%5D=48&page%5Border%5D=asc

Eddie Murphy, Uncle Ray

This interview with a young Eddie Murphy and his Uncle Ray is so interesting and funny, to watch Eddie laugh so uninhibited and to get a sense of his uncle's humor, and especially to watch him dance and see Eddie's reaction. It's an amazing bridge in time and one of few modern instances to see the talent and genius of a forbidden art and lost generation. I cannot wait to see Eddie return to stand up.

Allan Holdsworth - Spokes - Live

https://soundcloud.com/german-ezequiel-sanchez/spokes

Articles about Spokes posted on the unReal Allan Holdsworth FB page:
http://fingerprintsweb.net/ahwiki/index.php?title=Spokes&fbclid=IwAR10d1FG9k7EQ7fxPH96buSaKMHExQafgNCRM5OOWGPl5G7455J6HzQN-JQ

http://fingerprintsweb.net/ahwiki/index.php?title=Allan_Holdsworth%E2%80%99s_Untold_Secrets_%2B_Worthy_Quotes_(Guitar_Player_1990)&fbclid=IwAR2zxz3rA1SU8wXtFHVyZtP487ZtBuqU28QsHnBMufvZsMaIwnmyJwlB2Bw

deep fake for making music?

So, I understand that deep fake can be used for guiding audio, not just video, and I now understand that one threat could be using deep fakes being sent to first responders.

I did search for 'deepfake music' but so far nothing.

My question is whether deep fake could be applied to music, so maybe we take one vocalist and map it over another, so Geddy Lee from Rush ends up singing Ice Cream Man by Van Halen. Not that I'm dying to do that, but it opens up some interesting possibilities. 

So, for example, separate the tracks that make up a song by Van Halen, and substitute the stylings of Rush. So, for example, have AI 'listen' to the entire body of work by a particular drummer, then it can play in that style.

I think there would be a break down at the point of writing lyrics unless it's open to non-sequitur, which would probably be my approach - leave it to people's imagination and let it be poetic without concrete meaning, kind of mad libs rule engine. 

So, have Bach writing melodies to Neil's drumming so it stretches and blends more like a rock song. Now you have an original instrumental composition, just add lyrics, then add vocals and bass. How would Geddy's bassline fit in? Well, take Bach's classical rules that would drive a more proper bassline, but add in a rule engine for Geddy's style. Layer on a funk filter. Swap in a Steve Harris bassline from Iron Maiden. Adjust to fit a particular period, like more 80s Rush, or more 90s Rush. Not that we really want this necessarily, but it's a starting point. Ultimately, don't we want originality? Genuine emotion? Isn't that what art is? Can a machine do that? Music today is all about style, not substance. It's formulaic as hell.

What would also be really nice for me - I want to discover new music. Forget about Pandora and Spotify. Let's have AI identify the patterns of music I like, then find music of a similar ilk. I actually thought about this in 1999, the idea was to be able to visually search music. The mood and/or composition would be represented by a color, like a heat map, and you could zoom into various colors to quickly identify variants within that range, filtering by attribute.

Of course, the extension of this would be to create music of an ilk that I like. But not necessarily just by copying styles as I described previously and tracking them over other compositions. Let's zoom into why of I liking certain music. It's not just the rhythm or the instrumentation or compositions or mood. That's what makes this question of creativity and originality interesting - what separates humans from AI. We're talking about personality and point of view. Philosophy and context and emotion, not merely style.

 

math / organic art

AR aquarium - magic leap

https://www.roadtovr.com/magic-leap-studios-undersea-will-put-portal-coral-reef-living-room/

Casiopea, Japanese fusion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casiopea

http://www.casiopea.co.jp/

Casiopea, Galactic Funk

Pegasus from My Music Life (offshoot band, Tetsuo Sakurai)

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over 30 albums, '79 - '04

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casiopea#Discography

offshoot bands:

• Ottottrio
• Casiopea vs. The Square
• Synchronized DNA
• Inspirits
• Pegasus

AI personalized brain music

https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/12/we-wont-be-listening-to-music-in-a-decade-according-to-vinod-khosla/

https://www.creativedestructionlab.com/

We won’t be listening to music in a decade according to Vinod Khosla

Darrell Etherington@etherington / 2 days ago

Depending on who you ask, the advantage of technology based on artificial or machine intelligence could be a topsy-turvy funhouse mirror world — even in some very fundamental ways.

“I actually think 10 years from now, you won’t be listening to music,” is a thing venture capitalist Vinod Khosla said onstage today during a fireside chat at Creative Destruction Lab’s  second annual Super Session event.

Instead, he believes we’ll be listening to custom song equivalents that are automatically designed specifically for each individual, and tailored to their brain, their listening preferences and their particular needs.

Khosla noted that AI-created music is already making big strides — and it’s true that it’s come a long way in the past couple of years, as noted recently by journalist Stuart Dredge writing on Medium.

As Dredge points out, one recent trend is the rise of mood or activity-based playlists on Spotify  and channels on YouTube. There are plenty of these types of things where the artist, album and song name are not at all important, or even really surfaced. Not to mention that there’s a big financial incentive for an entity like Spotify to prefer machine-made alternatives, as it could help alleviate or eliminate the licensing costs that severely limit their ability to make margin on their primary business of serving up music to customers.

AI-generated chart toppers and general mood music is one thing, but a custom soundtrack specific to every individual is another. It definitely sidesteps the question of what happens to the communal aspect of music when everyone’s music-replacing auditory experience is unique to the person. Guess we’ll find out in 10 years.

aphex twin playlists

aphex twin's first synth article

http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2020/09/05/hands-on-with-aphex-twins-modular-synthesizer/

cool track by the author

https://alexball.bandcamp.com/track/theis-modular-jam

https://youtu.be/q21qoSVxhfA

films by the author on how certain scifi soundtracks were made

https://www.alexballmusic.com/my-films

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this first song, korg funk 5, in particular got me going again on aphex twin, this is a playlist with his other korg demos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfdZmsarmGU&list=PLA_kmQFxJ68AxZ8rlimuQWomQlmwl_Aby

last aphex twin album - 2014 - very good in my opinion

https://youtu.be/RUAJ8KLGqis

etc.

https://youtu.be/uO9NjTVRLeA

etc. etc.

https://youtu.be/y_MyNOWZ6Tk

Uploaded playlist by aphex
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfbWBKV8v3iAaRsgw2EVNgg0jy-puVXvF

aphex soundcloud 4/2020 upload
https://soundcloud.com/user18081971

HBO ATT

https://theweek.com/articles/826605/creeping-netflixification-hbo

The question of quality over quantity is a no brainer. Would you rather win a three-week vacation to the Somerset, New Jersey, Comfort Inn or three nights at the Hôtel Ritz Paris? Would you rather eat at Panera Bread twice a month, or have dinner biannually at Eleven Madison Park? Would you rather be in possession of an army of thousands of mercenaries or a dragon?

The choice seems pretty clear, not the least because, after three weeks, Somerset begins to lose some of its charm, you eventually get sick of ordering the same sandwich from Panera all the time, and repeatedly losing to Daenerys Targaryen gets boring. The important part of this equation, though, is the fact that you do get a choice; in many facets of our lives, we still get to pick if we want lots of little things or one really nice thing. For fans of television, though, that choice is narrowing as HBO, the longtime bastion of "prestige television," creeps closer and closer towards Netflix's tantalizingly profitable "quantity" model.

The first sign of trouble came last summer, just after AT&T completed its acquisition of Time Warner Inc., and with it, Warner Bros., HBO, Turner, and brands like Bleacher Report and the beloved streaming service FilmStruck. In a July 8 company meeting with HBO employees, AT&T executive John Stankey announced: "I want more hours of engagement." As he put it, HBO needed "hours a day. It's not hours a week, and it's not hours a month … You are competing with devices that sit in people's hands that capture their attention every 15 minutes." By October, AT&T had shuttered Filmstruck for being too niche; by winter, AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson was reassuring he had no plans to turn HBO into "another Netflix." But yesterday, after the government's final antitrust challenge against the merger failed in court, the longtime chairman and CEO of HBO, Richard Plepler, announced he was resigning.

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You may not know Plepler's name offhand, but you'll be familiar with the phenomenon he is credited for: the so-called "Golden Age of Television." Shows like The Sopranos, The Wire, Sex and the City, Veep, and more recently Westworld and Game of Thrones, all came during his tenure; HBO won more than 160 Emmys while Plepler was at the helm, The New York Times reports. But Plepler's exit — for which he offered no direct explanation — not only threatens the Golden Age of Television, but the very philosophy that allowed its rise. It is a symbolic end to what Plepler summed up to The Wall Street Journal in 2017 as "more is not better. Only better is better."

The creeping Netflixification at hand represents an about-face from Plepler's understanding of HBO's role in the increasingly crowded streaming marketplace. In 2018, Netflix put out more than 90,000 hours in original content, including some 58,000 hours of original series; to keep up, Quartz found, would be an entire part-time job. That's not to say there haven't been great Netflix TV shows — the platform is home to Orange Is the New Black, House of Cards, and Russian Doll — but there is a downside to trying to give users an endless ocean of exactly the content they want. One need look no further than the example of the multi-film deal Netflix inked with Adam Sandler, whose terrible The Ridiculous 6 (0 percent on Rotten Tomatoes) was also the streaming service's most-watched film ever in its initial 30 days back in 2015 (it has likely since been surpassed by Bird Box, although Netflix famously doesn't reveal its viewership). In the TV realm, this means dozens of shows, binged one week, are forgotten the next. When's the last time you heard someone talk about Altered Carbon, Haters Back Off, Girlboss, or Between?

While HBO wanted to make the best television in the world, Netflix went for global domination. Opening the Netflix app is almost a painful process, with autoplay trailers hawking the next it TV show with as much boisterousness as the holograms in Blade Runner. Finishing one episode of TV, another immediately begins; Netflix even allows users to skip show intros to further streamline binging. Netflix wants to be in front of your eyes at all times. HBO, by contrast, is a destination, an app you open specifically to finish Big Little Lies.

Fascinatingly, there doesn't need to be an either/or dynamic here at all. Despite how AT&T is treating it, HBO is profitable; a year ago in February, the premium network added the most subscribers in its history. In 2017, more than 60 percent of people who subscribed to HBO Now also subscribed to Netflix, indicating there are different demands being fulfilled for users by both services. That is likely only to grow; by 2020, 62 percentof Americans are expected to subscribe to at least two streaming services. But as one particularly prickly exchange between AT&T's Stankey and HBO's Plepler went last June:

... Mr. Stankey said, "We've got to make money at the end of the day, right?"

"We do that," Mr. Plepler responded.

"Yes, you do," Mr. Stankey said. "Just not enough." [The New York Times]

The mistake here is in likening HBO and Netflix as true competitors. There is nothing wrong with the Netflix model, just as there is nothing wrong with eating at Olive Garden or reading movie tie-in paperbacks. What is a problem is determining that, due to the success of quantity, there is no point in continuing to invest in quality.

With Plepler's exit, HBO looks to already be past the point of no return. The bigwigs at AT&T peered in their pocketbooks and made their call: More is, in fact, better.

study finds new music sucks

https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/07/millennials-prefer-music-20th-century-golden-age-pop-today-research-reveals-8462993/

Millennials prefer music from 20th century ‘golden age’ to the pop of today, research suggests 

By Jasper Hamill

Research has suggested that modern music really isn’t as good as the old classics. A study has found that golden oldies stick in millennials’ minds far more than the relatively bland, homogenous pop of today. A golden age of popular music lasted from the 1960s to the 1990s, academics claimed. Songs from this era proved to be much more memorable than tunes released in the 21st century.

Scientists tested a group of millennials on their ability to recognise hit records from different decades. The 643 participants, typically aged 18 to 25, maintained a steady memory of top tunes that came out between 1960 and 1999. In contrast, their memory of 21st-century songs from 2000 to 2015 – while higher overall – diminished rapidly over time. Lead researcher Dr Pascal Wallisch, from New York University in the US, said: ‘The 1960s to 1990s was a special time in music, reflected by a steady recognition of pieces of that era-even by today’s millennials.’ During this period songs reaching the top of the US Billboard charts were significantly more varied than they were between 2000 to 2015, or the 1940s and 1950s, said the scientists. Even so, certain songs were far more memorable than others, the study found.

Well known examples included ‘When a Man Loves a Woman’ by Percy Sledge (1966), ‘Baby Come Back’ by Player (1977) and ‘The Tide is High’ by Blondie (1980). Others, including ‘Knock Three Times’ by Dawn (1970), ‘I’m Sorry’ by John Denver (1975) and ‘Truly’ by Lionel Richie (1982) were all but forgotten. Songs selected for the study included those that reached number one on the Billboard Top 100 between 1940 and 1957, and the top slot on the Billboard ‘Hot 100’ from 1958 to 2015. Each participant was presented with short excerpts from a random selection of seven out of 152 songs and asked to say if they recognised them.

blockchain music

I was thinking about blockchain as a possible solution to piracy in digital media, particularly relative to the fall of the music industry. The idea is to create some kind of blockchain-based music player that would give artists control, to sell music that cannot be copied and profit from the direct sale of their music. Ideally, the solution would be accessible for streaming.

Searching for 'blockchain music player', I found the following:

https://coinsutra.com/blockchain-music-industry/

https://cointelegraph.com/news/blockchain-music-streaming-service-to-increase-the-amount-musicians-earn-for-their-work

https://www.voise.com/

https://bitsong.io/en

https://www.forbes.com/sites/shermanlee/2018/04/25/embracing-blockchain-could-completely-change-the-way-artists-sell-music-and-interact-with-fans/#6909074b1a25

https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/d37mez/these-7-blockchain-apps-could-help-musicians-get-paid

AI art

"Edmond de Belamy"



http://obvious-art.com/edmond-de-belamy.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/algorithm-art-fetches-432-500-ny-auction-christies-181813697.html

"It's the brainchild of French collective Obvious, whose aim is to use artificial intelligence to democratize art."

"... fetched $432,500 at Christie's in New York, the epicenter of the traditional art market."

prog guitar

referred to these bands by a guy wearing an Animals as Leaders shirt, struck up a conversation, he's a civil engineer, typical.

plini

https://youtu.be/RggRFyVUiZA

https://youtu.be/ywlWkkNl19U

intervals

https://youtu.be/OHvMYUR8SuE

the helix nebula

https://youtu.be/1gRESh4iyfs

david maxim

https://youtu.be/GY-nwY7tbIg

Sony In $2.3 Billion Deal For EMI, Becomes World's Biggest Music Publisher

Sony In $2.3 Billion Deal For EMI, Becomes World's Biggest Music Publisher16

Posted by BeauHD on Tuesday May 22, 2018 @09:25PM from the there-is-a-new-sheriff-in-town dept.

Sony said on Tuesday it would pay about $2.3 billion to gain control of EMI, becoming the world's largest music publisher in an industry that has found new life on the back of streaming services. Reuters reports:The acquisition is the biggest strategic move yet by new CEO Kenichiro Yoshida and gives Sony a catalogue of more than 2 million songs from artists such as Kanye West, Sam Smith and Sia. The deal is part of Yoshida's mission to make revenue streams more stable with rights to entertainment content -- a strategy that follows a major revamp by his predecessor which shifted Sony's focus away from low-margin consumer electronics. 

The spread of the internet led to a shrinking of the music market from around 1999 to 2014, Yoshida said, but added that has turned around with the growth of fixed-price music streaming services. The deal values EMI Music Publishing at $4.75 billion including debt, more than double the $2.2 billion value given in 2011 when a consortium led by Sony won bidding rights for the company. EMI currently commands 15 percent of the music publishing industry which combined with its Sony ATV business would make the Japanese giant the industry leader with market share of 26 percent, a company spokesman said.

Kong Skull Island