Thanks for reading 💜 I leave you today with a new vid - excerpt from the robot improv with Jaron Lanier

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For about a decade, I’ve dreamt of building and playing with a true robot orchestra

The Fuse concert was the prototype, only the beginning… much more to come, from robots to totally new systems architectures... (12/n)

It's the legacy institutions around these artforms which have ossified and culted themselves, blinding many, artificially constraining potential, kicking off spirals which degenerate that substrate - which has contributed greatly to our current infodemics and more (11/n)

Music making, all artforms - are fundamental cultural substrate for a healthy acceleration to be possible. Not merely decoration. SV must not forget this
(10/n)

On the other end, many well-meaning nerds tend to mistake all classical music as decel

Yet, the true origin of classical music is true creation, fundamental, generative - most /acc of all

Composers of old, from Liszt, Mozart, Bach - were all improvisers pushing limits (9/n)

Meanwhile, in the “classical music world”, it seems I’ve ruffled a lot of feathers

As a self-taught pianist, my very existence is an affront to many. Bypassing all their rules - fun!

But, what should matter is what happens on stage; not the larps outside of it (8/n)

Speaking of - where've I been? Generally, monk mode - just coming up for some air right now after an intense hackathon with my Japan team...

Exciting things to share from @snowstormnet land shortly
- next-gen internet freedom tools don't just build themselves - but we can
(7/n)

As a technical founder ( @snowstormnet) I'm very used to wearing All The Hats - instigating, organizing, logisticating, putting out fires, coding, performing - it was a familiar process (6/n)

The two things I’ve always done have been coding and piano - they actually seem like the same activity to me

For my particular configuration as a carbon-based lifeform instance, these activities seem uniquely optimized for neuroplasticity, info-metabolism, & execution (5/n)

Lots of gratitude to @FuseEnergyTech, @JCBtaiche10, Jaron Lanier for improvising with me, and everyone on the team in making this possible! (4/n)

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EMG sensors connected to my back translated bio signals to affect both robot movement parameters, camera movements, and live Al visuals (Huge huge thanks to KOTO @koto9x!)

We pulled off something nearly impossible with a skeleton crew in no time - everyone came through (3/n)

A few months ago I had to instigate a crazy concert - performing live with industrial robot arms, each on real instruments 🎻🦾

In the lead up, I found myself in an insane feedback loop
- rehearsing intense classical pieces whilst debugging robots (UR5e's via UC Berkeley) (2/n)

Considering getting on bluesky. Most of my piano stuff thus far has been on instagram.com/serenepianist
(X didn't feel that right for it)

New here too. I'm a musician. nice to meet you