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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.

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

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.

...or do they own us? Ideas may be meant to be shared, and are not proprietary. Is it “all mine” or “all ours”? My prediction is that everyone will choose to do everything themselves, and where skills are lacking, software will fill in the gap. Ideas will be both proprietary and shared in the sense that even a quarter note or an eighth notes can have rights associated with it. But it will destry matural heirarchies that have allowed music to evolve in the way that it has. The film Get Back is a window into how ideas get negotiated. Perhaps the best collaborations are mostly about negotiation.

The book: Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook 

Like the Difference Mode in Photoshop, we can apply the metaphor to neural nets.

At what point do we know a project has reached its creative potential? Continuing on with something that is generative may be preventing new ideas to be developed.

At what point do we know a project has reached its creative potential? Continuing on with something that is generative may be preventing new ideas to be developed.