… Got fiber internet installed so I can work there during all the build and renovation. Have to get tree people out today. The wife and I have weeks of interior patching, painting, and moulding work ahead of us.

It’s streaming on Max. It’s very good.

Same.

If you’re weeding alone through all the garbage, yes. But befriending music nerds with different genre focus and reading underground music pubs snd newsletters goes a long way. I find something new to me monthly just as a matter of course.

It’ll also screw up practically every application on the planet. But more work for me I guess?

The wise artist is the one who unabashedly shows themselves—flaws and all—and highlights the things that no technology will ever be able to replicate convincingly to the discriminating listener. Artists just have to figure out what is uniquely human about what they do and lean into it.

That said, there will be an AI backlash. People are looking for authenticity and a human connection.

Many will use it to copy popular trends. And absolutely nobody is going to stamp “created using AI” on their album. You can’t legislate that line, because it goes back to the invention of recorded music. We’ve all bought into the manipulation from day one.

So, where’s your line in the sand? Artists will use technology to conceal inferiority. Some will use it to explore new artistic territory. Recoding engineers will use it forensically to enhance imperfections in recordings.

But practically everything a musician does is a manipulation using technology no matter how authentic they purport to be. The moment you stick a microphone in front of someone or something, you are fabricating a false reality.

I don’t see how this technology is any less of a manipulation than, for instance, autotune—possibly the most recent equivalent tool and a favorite poster child of lameness in production.

I don’t necessarily disagree with anything Gioia says here. But as someone who’s consistently grappling with the concept of authenticity in music production, I’m neither concerned nor terribly interested in any changes AI technology professes to bring to it.