Jennifer Walshe
@jenniferwalshe.bsky.social
Composer, vocalist, improviser, Mars, noise, AI, professor of composition University of Oxford views my own 🚀☄️www.milker.org 13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music https://unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/merch/jennifer-walshe-13-ways-of-looking-at-ai-art-music
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The NYT talked to @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social and me about MARS, which opens tonight at Galway Arts Festival
An Opera Takes A.I., Pronatalism and Hustle Culture to Space
www.nytimes.com
July 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The NYT talked to @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social and me about MARS, which opens tonight at Galway Arts Festival
Nine Inch Nails and Chris Hadfield are playing Dublin tonight and the city is buzzing with loads of cool people in black leather and also me unzips hoodie to reveal NASA t-shirt
June 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Nine Inch Nails and Chris Hadfield are playing Dublin tonight and the city is buzzing with loads of cool people in black leather and also me unzips hoodie to reveal NASA t-shirt
had a dream that in the future teens said thank you not in person but via an app that sent the message “thonk u”
June 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
had a dream that in the future teens said thank you not in person but via an app that sent the message “thonk u”
Visit to the National Space Centre allowed me to view Buzz Aldrin’s underwear and a space toilet at close range
May 29, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Visit to the National Space Centre allowed me to view Buzz Aldrin’s underwear and a space toilet at close range
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Our hotel lobby art in Berlin says METALLIC LIFE REVIEW! See Matmos at Silent Green tomorrow Wednesday! Metal metal metal.
May 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Our hotel lobby art in Berlin says METALLIC LIFE REVIEW! See Matmos at Silent Green tomorrow Wednesday! Metal metal metal.
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Tonight @cafeotodalston.bsky.social: the Wire Salon explores AI's effect on music with @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, Zubin Kanga, Cyborg Soloists & @saving-throw.bsky.social.
Tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
Read our review of Walshe's book on AI:
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
Read our review of Walshe's book on AI:
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
“Can we think much, much weirder?”: Jennifer Walshe’s book on AI reviewed - The Wire
The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art ...
www.thewire.co.uk
May 13, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Tonight @cafeotodalston.bsky.social: the Wire Salon explores AI's effect on music with @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, Zubin Kanga, Cyborg Soloists & @saving-throw.bsky.social.
Tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
Read our review of Walshe's book on AI:
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
Tickets here: www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
Read our review of Walshe's book on AI:
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
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No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
Silicon Valley billionaires literally want the impossible
Ars chats with physicist and science journalist Adam Becker about his new book, More Everything Forever.
arstechnica.com
May 10, 2025 at 5:14 AM
No, we are not going to live on other planets. Bullshit artists like Musk might as well be the leaders of death cults. arstechnica.com/culture/2025...
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The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art And Music
@jenniferwalshe.bsky.social
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
@jenniferwalshe.bsky.social
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
“Can we think much, much weirder?”: Jennifer Walshe’s book on AI reviewed - The Wire
The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art ...
www.thewire.co.uk
May 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
The next Wire Salon, AI Is... All In The Mind Of Jennifer Walshe, is at London’s Cafe Oto on 13 May. In advance of it, read Abi Bliss's review of Jennifer’s manifesto 13 Ways Of Looking At AI, Art And Music
@jenniferwalshe.bsky.social
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
@jenniferwalshe.bsky.social
@cafeotodalston.bsky.social
www.thewire.co.uk/in-writing/e...
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I've decided that the people who believe LLMs are literally demons are more correct than the people who believe they can send emails
May 6, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I've decided that the people who believe LLMs are literally demons are more correct than the people who believe they can send emails
As a professor of composition, I appreciate the clarity on this.
May 6, 2025 at 12:59 PM
As a professor of composition, I appreciate the clarity on this.
Bookmart in Sligo is a treasure trove
May 4, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Bookmart in Sligo is a treasure trove
Great if dark article by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social one of TikToks he mentions is bananas - kids using Vril/Agartha dogwhistles for a school game, comments full of racism and also people assuming Diarmuid & Niamh are some sort of fascistic lore rather than Irish names pitchfork.com/thepitch/tik...
May 3, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Great if dark article by @kieranpressreyn.bsky.social one of TikToks he mentions is bananas - kids using Vril/Agartha dogwhistles for a school game, comments full of racism and also people assuming Diarmuid & Niamh are some sort of fascistic lore rather than Irish names pitchfork.com/thepitch/tik...
13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music available here, will be talking about it at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on May 13 for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social: unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/merch/jennif...
May 1, 2025 at 4:47 PM
13 Ways of Looking at AI, Art & Music available here, will be talking about it at @cafeotodalston.bsky.social on May 13 for @thewiremagazine.bsky.social: unsoundfestival.bandcamp.com/merch/jennif...
Old but excellent thread. Could easily be describing AI-generated music. To paraphrase, musical works are boiled down to “reproducible clichés” dropped into musical landscapes based on the most stereotypical understanding of a given genre, with little understanding of context/history of the music.
If the standard »Platform Realism« of AI image synthesis tools can essentially be described as a second-order aesthetic of generic images, it's particularly revealing what #Midjourney does when asked to generate the image of something specific, say a famous building. A thread …
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May 1, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Old but excellent thread. Could easily be describing AI-generated music. To paraphrase, musical works are boiled down to “reproducible clichés” dropped into musical landscapes based on the most stereotypical understanding of a given genre, with little understanding of context/history of the music.
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Don't forget to book ahead for our second Salon event exploring the impact of AI on music, with composer @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social.
13 May, 7:30pm, at London's @cafeotodalston.bsky.social.
Tickets below:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
📷 Jennifer Walshe. Photo by Thor Brødreskift
13 May, 7:30pm, at London's @cafeotodalston.bsky.social.
Tickets below:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
📷 Jennifer Walshe. Photo by Thor Brødreskift
April 29, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Don't forget to book ahead for our second Salon event exploring the impact of AI on music, with composer @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social.
13 May, 7:30pm, at London's @cafeotodalston.bsky.social.
Tickets below:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
📷 Jennifer Walshe. Photo by Thor Brødreskift
13 May, 7:30pm, at London's @cafeotodalston.bsky.social.
Tickets below:
www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/the-w...
📷 Jennifer Walshe. Photo by Thor Brødreskift
Spent this morning reading the CIA’s field manual on sabotage… and am terrified to say that this whole time…I’ve been going to meetings that were being sabotaged??? www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
April 25, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Spent this morning reading the CIA’s field manual on sabotage… and am terrified to say that this whole time…I’ve been going to meetings that were being sabotaged??? www.gutenberg.org/files/26184/...
The beautiful thing about Easter Sunday is that people in Midjourney newbie channels pause from prompting “white man with his wife and daughter on couch soldiers with rifles they are under siege” for the more traditional “Easter Bunny wearing Bob Marley head smoking a joint high out of he’s mind”
April 20, 2025 at 11:38 PM
The beautiful thing about Easter Sunday is that people in Midjourney newbie channels pause from prompting “white man with his wife and daughter on couch soldiers with rifles they are under siege” for the more traditional “Easter Bunny wearing Bob Marley head smoking a joint high out of he’s mind”
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Unlike classic fascism, #MemeFascism doesn't even try to produce a coherent narrative. Like Bukele with his torture camps, it can simultaneously celebrate and deny the crimes it commits. Its followers do not want to be seduced, they want to be entertained. And they are entertained by our outrage
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«… according to a person familiar with the situation, a Bukele aide placed the two glasses with cherries and salted rims on the table in front of Mr. Van Hollen and Mr. Abrego Garcia in the middle of their meeting in an attempt to stage the photo.» #MemeFascism www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04...
Trump Administration Highlights: Senator Meets With Wrongly Deported Maryland Man in El Salvador
www.nytimes.com
April 19, 2025 at 5:51 AM
Unlike classic fascism, #MemeFascism doesn't even try to produce a coherent narrative. Like Bukele with his torture camps, it can simultaneously celebrate and deny the crimes it commits. Its followers do not want to be seduced, they want to be entertained. And they are entertained by our outrage
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Cafe in rural Ireland and there’s elderly ladies next to me using ChatGPT to look up saints on their phones. They all refer to it as “my ChatGPT” like it’s their own little religion buddy bless their hearts
April 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Cafe in rural Ireland and there’s elderly ladies next to me using ChatGPT to look up saints on their phones. They all refer to it as “my ChatGPT” like it’s their own little religion buddy bless their hearts
I wrote about the Enghiblification and what it means for how we read images @irishtimes.com! Briefly mention @nathanjurgenson.bsky.social’s great book The Social Photo which has been v helpful in thinking about how the web changes how we think about pictures…
April 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I wrote about the Enghiblification and what it means for how we read images @irishtimes.com! Briefly mention @nathanjurgenson.bsky.social’s great book The Social Photo which has been v helpful in thinking about how the web changes how we think about pictures…
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The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up for March is here and it is packed. Alto-fiddle experiments, DIY doom, a returning champ of Irish hip-hop, various shades of minimalism, bedroom pop, club stuff, all sorts.
Plus, the much hyped Haunted Mound collective's connection to the auld sod.
The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up for March is here and it is packed. Alto-fiddle experiments, DIY doom, a returning champ of Irish hip-hop, various shades of minimalism, bedroom pop, club stuff, all sorts.
Plus, the much hyped Haunted Mound collective's connection to the auld sod.
New Irish Music: March 2025
On Haunted Mound’s Irish connection, plus new music from Ultan O’Brien, Mantua, God Knows and more
open.substack.com
April 3, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Hi 🌸
The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up for March is here and it is packed. Alto-fiddle experiments, DIY doom, a returning champ of Irish hip-hop, various shades of minimalism, bedroom pop, club stuff, all sorts.
Plus, the much hyped Haunted Mound collective's connection to the auld sod.
The Anois, Os Ard New Irish Music round-up for March is here and it is packed. Alto-fiddle experiments, DIY doom, a returning champ of Irish hip-hop, various shades of minimalism, bedroom pop, club stuff, all sorts.
Plus, the much hyped Haunted Mound collective's connection to the auld sod.
This is excellent. I came for the clinical roasting of Berlin hipster life but stayed for what turned out to be some of the best descriptions of what the web and in particular Instagram is doing to our brains.
April 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
This is excellent. I came for the clinical roasting of Berlin hipster life but stayed for what turned out to be some of the best descriptions of what the web and in particular Instagram is doing to our brains.
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Tomorrow: Oöm, Alex Glenfield/Ravi Padmanabha, Outi Pukkkinen, Cocanha, @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, Batzorig Vaanchig, Elaine Mitchener, Lauren Newton w/Joëlle Léandre, Geometry of @kyokokitamura.bsky.social, @charl-ttemundy.bsky.social & more! Listen here: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...
S17 Ep26 Show #411: I think yodels want to be free, not $3: Vocal Fry with Dan Bodah
Audio & playlist from April 1, 2025
www.wfmu.org
March 31, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Tomorrow: Oöm, Alex Glenfield/Ravi Padmanabha, Outi Pukkkinen, Cocanha, @jenniferwalshe.bsky.social, Batzorig Vaanchig, Elaine Mitchener, Lauren Newton w/Joëlle Léandre, Geometry of @kyokokitamura.bsky.social, @charl-ttemundy.bsky.social & more! Listen here: www.wfmu.org/playlists/sh...