AND ANOTHER THING
That's the sample and hold arpeggiator on a Roland Jupiter 4. The synth was introduced in 1977, three years after the first S&H arpeggiator on the ARP 2500. Or more specifically, it's a modern synth geek noodling about on a Roland Jupiter 4. "algorithmic" computer music composition has been around for over 50 years and yet -
haha you thought I was gonna say "and yet nobody uses it" didn't you? Naaah what I was gonna say "and yet everyone recognizes that it's total shit if it's not in the hands of an artist." Li'l still from that dreck "AI" sci fi film above:
Here's another still:
Yeah I know these guys. The visual FX dudes who really wanna be directors? If only they could figure out how to get rid of all the actors and set decorators and shit like that. I got an award for one in - wait for it - 2011
That dude does motion graphics for Kimmel and has done for 20 years. Hey wait a minute what the hell is Ronnie Cox doing in there? Easy. He's the dude's uncle.
We've had AI writing capability longer than any other art, and still nobody uses it. Algorithmic music has been a reality since 1971 but ELIZA debuted in 1967. What was the first real application of LLMs? CHAT. And the people dick-deep in AI STILL WRITE THEIR OWN SHIT.
"Cockpit" is a shit adaptation of Saberhagen. Except it's not, Jessie isn't that literate, it's a shit adaptation of Screamers.
We will never, ever ever get to the core conceit, which is the imitation of humans. Here's the antagonist of "Screamers":
In order to grasp what Screamers or Cockpit or "WHAT CAN I DO TO PROVE IM HUMAN STOP" is about, you need to understand the symbolic concept of imitation.
And there is no part of an LLM with any symbolic understanding whatsoever. It's like expecting sample & hold on a harpsichord.
That's a generative piece created by Kyma. Not created in Kyma, created by Kyma. You've been able to do that in Kyma since 1988 and in Reaktor since 1995. It's probably not to your taste! But the world of Ambient and IDM have been fuckin' around with generative music for about three generations now.
And this is what Deep.AI thinks is "music inspired by rain and tape noise."
