Dynaxiom 3311-3320
My comments:
3311. There's always a pressure to conform and to fix ourselves so others will accept us. If we do it too hastily, then we're more likely to go off track. Your new you might work for a while, but the old you is always going to be there. The old you had lots of good things, but you might have thrown the baby out with the bath water.
3312. Andy Warhol was perceived as an artist who had little skill but it’s far from true. He wasn’t entirely postmodern, given that postmodernism in art was just getting started in the 60s. Born in 1928, he arrived on the scene as a young artist right at the dawn of postwar America. Had history been different, Warhol probably would have been a traditional artist. All of the Beatles would have had a job in some kind of trade or perhaps been school teachers.
3313. If you focus on generating content with AI requiring no skill you're squandering opportunities to develop skill. In a lifetime you would have developed no unique skills based on your innate talents].
- 3314. Being an activist artist automatically makes you a solo artist. [To express political opinions openly makes it less likely that you would have good collaborations. The prime example is the rock band–or any musical group where there are more than two people. At the beginning of any collaboration it works for a while until people start expressing their opinions. Once a polarization occurs, the collaboration collapses, at which point people go their separate ways. If you're going to be an activist, it's probably wise to be a solo artist to begin with. Collaboration, at least in today’s world, is over-appreciated because it doesn't work like it did, say, in the 1930s and 40s with songwriting teams, or a composer and a librettist like Leonard Bernstein and Steven Sondheim--but even they had their rivalries. In a sense, one could collaborate with themselves, weighing two sides of any topic as inspiration for new work. This way you could express your opinions in different characters. AI could be a way to do this, and doesn't, at least in theory, harm any relationships.
3315. Capitulation to something ensures its success. In music, if we separate real musicianship from AI-generation we can continue composing and performing it as we have. The difference now is that we have to make our work even more unique--and perhaps eccentric and avant-garde--even Dada.
3316. Personally, I'm not riding the current zeitgeist. I do what feels righteous to me. I love postmodernist procedures but I don't care for "mirror" art--that which points the mirror at the horrors of society in order to be relevant. Creativity has to feel good to me, like a good pair of shoes]
3317. The whole world exists because of proven facts. Humans would have never had been able to build anything on opinions and would have not survived at all, if for example food and shelter were a matter of opinion, or if the weather was a matter of opinion. This is more the world of mammalians who first fight for territory--the opinion that this is mine and not yours as a matter of fact, this is my fact and you have to abide by it, even if it's an opinion that could never in reality be a fact. You can have an opinion about a structural element in a building, but it's the facts that will have to be applied for the building to exist. So opinions are kind of the "decorations" on top of undeniable facts. It's like a Frank Gehry building that looks like it's all art but it's science that holds that art expression up. Imagine if Gehry just wanted to do it his way not matter what the engineers said. Or what if two buildings had to be built because they couldn't decide what the facts were? What happens in the earthquake?
3318. Music is essentially a matter of software made with a centuries-old programming language using a small set of simple rules. AI music is hardware in the sense that it is burned onto a 'motherboard' requiring many complex systems, many of which are burned in and you can't easily change them at the point of creativity. If a hardware system only has a D major chord and not a D minor, and perhaps a D7, the music is stuck in a sealed box.
3320. Since it has no universal bibliographic function, it's essentially a way to attempt to rally around a shared idea for the sake of solidarity. Nobody knows if they do anything, but we still use them in most of our social media posts.