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Evan Gedert
@evangedert.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Reminder that AI is not just creatively and culturally destitute, but is also explicit thievery of already underpaid labor.
Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.
Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry
October 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This is your periodic reminder that education (higher or otherwise) has benefits other than improving your capacity to perform in the labor market, and these benefits may in fact even be *more important* than employability.
October 8, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
Why Walking Helps Us Think
Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
www.newyorker.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Dance of the Lampyridae -

Fireflies are in trouble, coinciding with a large scale loss of insect biodiversity in the US

You can help to provide habitats for fireflies by leaving areas of leaf litter in your yard - the perfect place for their larvae to grow
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#music #marimba #firefly #musicsky
July 26, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Satellite

Performed by Lono Saxophone quartet

Score and full recording are available on my website, evangedert.com/satellite
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#musicsky #saxophone #music #sax
July 20, 2025 at 12:50 AM
The premiere recording of Satellite is now available through my website

evangedert.com/satellite/

#saxophone #music #musicsky #composer
July 7, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I have a new website! Check out evangedert.com for recordings and scores of my compositions!

#composer #musicsky #music
July 7, 2025 at 6:20 PM
A World Without Rain

See the full performance here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppse...

#music #musicsky #marimba
July 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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Totally fake band, AI-generated “psychadelic folk,” polluting streaming playlists, 300k listeners, fake bio with fake quote from Billboard. This has never been about facilitating art—it’s one more way for big tech to siphon as much money from artists as possible.
The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners
Fully AI-generated music is only accounting for a tiny proportion of streams on services like Spotify and Deezer at the moment.
musically.com
June 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Very excited to announce the premiere of my composition "Voyage for Band" with the Saginaw Eddy Concert Band! This group has a great sound and lots of amazing talent, and I'm very excited to work with them as a composer!
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#newmusic #composer #music
June 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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"I asked chatgpt, I asked grok" yeah well I've given up all chance at inner peace. I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion, I'm damned for what I do.
"i asked chatgpt, i asked grok" yeah well i asked frankenstein and he was like "i'm the doctor, not the monster!" and i was like "well you're kind of a monster tho also" so
"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine
June 21, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Covina, CA REPRESENT! NO KINGS!
June 15, 2025 at 1:04 AM
No kings.
June 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Exciting things coming!
May 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the closure of the Education Department.
Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department
The federal judge also told the administration to reinstate department employees who lost their jobs during the reduction-in-force announced in March.
www.npr.org
May 22, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.
What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation
The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.
www.npr.org
May 16, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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High Fructose Philosophy
May 14, 2025 at 4:20 AM
Today’s episode of Hobby Lobby slop products
May 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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If you use AI art you’re messing around with fascist aesthetics. They have no artistic talent and hold art in low esteem, and that’s what you’re doing if you use AI art in your projects
May 3, 2025 at 9:22 PM
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So this is weird. 'Revivification' of a dead composer's brain cells to carry on writing ad infinitum. And still better than AI generated music. futurism.com/neoscope/mus...
Musician Who Died in 2021 Resurrected as Clump of Brain Matter, Now Composing New Music
Using the DNA of the late musician Alvin Lucier, a team has created an "in-vitro brain" that still creates music with its electrical signals.
futurism.com
April 26, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Premiering April 1st in Cook Recital Hall at the MSU College of Music
March 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
February 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Time to be awesome.
January 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Messing around with a backing track I composed #music
January 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM