2024 October 31 There are mornings when I wake up and a new song is fully formed in my head. All I need to do is write down the lyrics and record a demo version of the music. Then I usually set the demo song aside and come back to…
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Year: 2024
2024 | Words | Partnership with Artificial Intelligence | 6 Predictions
2024 October 11 As a kid, I read Ayn Rand, Frank Herbert, Franz Kafka, Arthur C. Clarke, Ernest Hemingway, and many other great writers. Like them, my motivation has always been to tell a good story. With the ongoing Artificial Intelligence (AI) revolution occurring in the arts and business, I’m…
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2024 | Words | 6 Classical Music Rules
2024 July 17 I was fortunate to have parents who forced me to start taking piano lessons each day after school when I was in 2nd grade, something I initially hated doing. Thanks to my teacher’s infinite patience, she also taught me how to read and write music. In hindsight,…
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2024 | Words | Null Paradox | Convergence Emergence
2024 June 26 Null Paradox is an interactive steampunk rock opera consisting of | 3 books | Gertrude & Grace, Victoria & Seth (upcoming), Glass Desert (upcoming). The first two books focus on the emergence of Gertrude & Grace and Victoria & Seth. Their relationships fall apart which then helps…
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2024 | Visuals | Live Event Promotion | Success and Failure
2024 May 14 After decades of success and failure in live event promotion, here’s what I’ve learned. Since I’m starting the process of promoting Null Paradox for a 2025 tour in the US, I’ll give you specific examples related to this live tour. Time | 6 to 12 months Phase 1…
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2024 | Visuals | Is AI Music “Real Music?”
2024 May 12 The song Despair demonstrates what a large group of human artists can accomplish: writing the music and lyrics, recording it, and mixing and mastering it in high-definition stereo and Dolby Atmos. My earlier article about the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in everything from music to images, video,…
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2024 | Words | Null Paradox | It Takes a Village | Human Music
2024 May 8 Recording the Null Paradox song Despair took more than a village. Twenty-six artists in the US, UK, and Portugal worked on bringing our music to life, including an orchestra recorded at St. George’s Hall in Bristol, UK. No Artificial Intelligence (AI), including AI music, were involved. Continuing…
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2024 | Visuals | Serendipity Music
2024 February 12 I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it. That quote has been around forever and attributed to many people, including The Amish, Thomas Jefferson, and Mark Twain. Regardless of who said it, I believe in that…
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2024 | Words | Writing, Music, and Artificial Intelligence
2024 January 29 I spent most of 2023 on three overlapping pursuits: finishing drafts of two books, writing music for three albums, and learning to work with artificial intelligence. At the same time, I posted regularly on X (Twitter) and elsewhere about AI’s practical value to artists and businesses. Keeping…
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