Riffs

An AI-analysis of the 5/12/2021 riff. It's interesting to hear AI talk about what you were talking about.

https://anchor.fm/lee-barry/episodes/Containers-of-Music-e13da56

It seems odd that we would score for sound because that's ultimately the" material" that we use for scoring, but this is the evolution of music from music that was written primarily on manuscript paper by composers and arrangers, and that's fading quickly. Now anyone can be a composer because that's all that’s required are sound libraries and some type of controller, or even AI-generation. What happens to centuries of knowledge when that knowledge is reduced to "usable data"?

[Podcast generated by AI on my video riff (May 2021)]

AI-analysis on two books (unedited):

1. The Status Game by Will Storr
2. Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop by Loretta Breunig

An interesting AI analysis of a video riff from 4 years ago. So it's someone talking about what I was talking about.

I think what I meant by the Red Box was that it was unique in some way. The gray box is a blend of black and white, but red is the accent color that you add as an individual.

An AI-generated analysis by Google's Gemini based on a riff I did back in April of 2021, when I was reading James Bridle’s New Dark Age. If you believe in the theory of historical Turnings, are we in a new Dark Age in art?

An AI-generated episode on miniaturization as a creative device.

Sources:

1. https://leebarrymusic.blogspot.com/2012/03/duration-as-device.html
2. https://leebarrymusic.blogspot.com/2017/03/slangcronyms.html

A "Deep Dive" "podcast" generated with Gemini, based on an excerpt from my book Dynaxiom about photography.

My Rebuttal

Audio notes on my recent album Frontiers, my "Chicago" album.

Additional information on some of the tracks, as well as sheet music, can be viewed on Studio Notes.

1966 was a year of rapid acceleration of technology, which had a profound and lasting effect on culture. I still think the 1960s are unparalleled in how fast the world changed, and affects my work to this day. 

The Music video: Every Building On the Sunset Strip

Computers can be instruments, but differ in many ways in how playing instruments is largely an embodied experience.