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The AIs have left the conversation ... 🤖

Alas, you can't count on me for the updates. Am doing a dishonest day's work tomorrow before heading down the road and across the border to treat my ears (and feet) to several hours of this:

Ehhhhh .... it wouldn't work without the crank! 😁 That's actually an electric hurdy-gurdy he's playing (still needs the crank, though ...) and the "bass guitar" sound is him plucking the drone strings that would usually be strummed by a wheel (driven by the crank ...) The guy in question...

Ooooooooh, don't disrespect the hurdy-gurdy, or you can consider your festival invitation cancelled! 👹

You should definitely treat yourself to at least one edition of our festival in July and enjoy watching those threads being woven together in real time. If you behave yourself, I might even be able to convince Ms. Heiderich to let you pluck at her strings ... 🤫

From the other thread: The baroque period (IMO) marked the end of that "hey, get this" phase of what became classical music. Up until then, music was largely either "functional" - rhythmic songs to work to, an extension of religious services, an alternative way to memorise and re-tell a story...

Is it swing you want? Well ... howzabout this? 😁 (fair warning: the first minute-and-a-half is just a bit of silliness) I've had a more "pro" version on this piece on my YT dulcimer playlist for several years (TV appearance by the same duo when they were younger), but in some ways, I prefer...

Actually, there is more to add ... but it's seriously tangential! If you hang around in that part of the world - Appenzell, eastern Switzerland - you'll see and hear many a body playing a style of hammered dulcimer that's almost identical to the baroque salterio played by Franziska...

Well ... there's nothing more to add, is there? Except, maybe, a picture of some hilarious, musical cows. Not Köthen cows (not even German), but they do come with their own musical cowherds. :cool:

You have Zora to thank for that! Although not so much melancholic memory as futuristic fantastising. She has become my muse! 😻 If I can get to speak to her for more than five minutes at a stage door every six to nine months, I'm hoping she'll agree to be the This Is Serious Music...

Further to my earlier reply, and your subsequent posts ... The quotes above go some way to explaining why I haven't (yet) commented on the excerpts you've provided. Not because it's "some weird shit" but because it's so close to much of my daily life! For a while, I was puzzled by the...

Will try ... soon. I did read the first upload, but it came at a bad time on account of that dastardly JS and his inconveniently timed birthday party. :mad: Oh, and also other stuff!

Not for the first time, Nate, I disagree with this tendency of yours to drag everything back to a question of dollars. Sure, there is a financial aspect to the "price of entry" - as for any aspect of the creative arts - but the real "price" of being able to make a movie is being able to create a...

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Okay, I just watched Rick's video, and ... it kinda sounds like he's playing the same "why does no studio want to produce my movie? why is nobody chipping in to my kickstarter campaign?" tune. He talks about all those people pouring all those hours of their time into composing and recording a...

You're ... you're ... ... you're surely not suggesting that the goooglrithm might have gone off on a wrong tangent? 😱

Never heard of him neither. 😝 But I have heard of Aerosmith. Couldn't pick a song of theirs out of a playlist, but I do know they are/were a group.

You live in a strange, strange world, Nate! :crazy: No-one has to work 800 hours a week, and no-one needs 25 million fans to validate their creativity. There's still plenty of reasonableness in these times, and the only "unreasonable" measures one really needs to take are the showing of two...

All I can see now are these AIs tearing around the web, desperately setting up web pages, monitoring each other's activity, compiling reports for people who are too busy to read them, and ultimately making turning the rest of the internet into the sort of uselessness that is LinkedIn. I'm...

OK, that looked at first like a positive response ... but it's of no real value at all if it doesn't show a side-by-side comparison of the original and any/all proposed revisions. At a quick scan, the analysis contains about 20 references to specific lines or passages of dialogue in a script of...