Music from the In-Between

It would be too easy to call I Love You Jennifer B a masterpiece—the logical end result of two highly experienced and technically skilled artists coming together. Every component of the album, from lyrics to loops, evokes something different—the attitude of a 70s punk band, the futuristic production of a Bjork album, the glitchiness and grit of a 100 Gecs single.

Putting Third Places First

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Increasingly threatened by both careless digitization and maximal individualism, third places play a vital role in our collective society and our individual psyches—which is why it’s crucial that they be preserved.

What Happens When We Stop Doing Things for Ourselves?

How do we listen to or create music, free from the influences of The Algorithms? For years, DIY music has been an appealing, sometimes entirely necessary source of relief and empowerment from the suffocation of Big Music.

AI Variant Animation

I fed DALL-E my illustration and asked it to create variations and then variations on those variations until it created… this.

Are AI-Generated Cryptids Going To Take Over?

A cryptid is a creature that has not been proven to exist but people believe it does. Some famous examples are BigFoot, The Loch Ness Monster, Slenderman, etc. With ai generators creating horrifying monsters so quickly and without much thought, will their stories be as haunting as their predecessors?

Don’t Try This at Home: The Crisis and Challenge of ChatGPT

99% of the time, I subscribe to the adage, “try it, you might like it!” By this logic, I should be racing over to ChatGPT to ask it to write my first novel and then explain to me how to get it published. But ChatGPT—and its bedfellows like DALL·E 2—are, for me, a bridge too far.

Dall-e_Prompts.exe Playlist

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