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 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 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 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 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 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 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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2023 December 17 Stanley Kubrick and Ayn Rand were both Futurists and 1900s-era contemporaries. Can their philosophies and predictions help us? Kubrick and Rand | Who is HAL 9000? Kubrick’s film 2001: A Space Odyssey and Rand’s book Atlas Shrugged featured two characters written to epitomize perfection: HAL 9000 as AI perfection and John Galt as human perfection. They’re both designed…
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2023 October 15 Looking outside of the niches I work in helps inspire me. My go-to place is nature. Whether it’s for the color combinations I never would have thought would work together or just the beauty of it all. History has also been an inspiration, not from the perspective…
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2023 September 23 “If you want to capture someone’s attention, whisper.” Those were the famous words spoken to launch Nuance, a new fragrance by Francois Coty in 1975. What would happen if we used current AI tools and reinterpreted the classic advertisement? Fast and Inexpensive This video took two days to complete, primarily because I…
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