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You can also read local authors and support the Aina Haina and Kapolei Public Libraries by buying the newest Hawaii Fiction Writers’ anthology, Kissing Frogs and Other Quirky Fairy Tales. It’s fun and funny!
https://www.fastcompany.com/90502236/8-tips-to-beat-distractions-while-working-from-home
And how many of us are working from home when we’re writing, composing, painting?
Good tips there.
“To gain mastery over reality is to create a mythology worth living for. Your head is the space from which all meaning derives. It is the shaman’s – and writer’s/artist’s/musician’s [my addition] – role to shine light on that meaning in order, like a wind-up doll, to make you go.” – Thomas T. Hills
Yes, we can!
https://aeon.co/ideas/can-we-know-what-music-sounded-like-in-ancient-greece
They have a link to a film of the Orestes papyrus music being performed, on reconstructed ancient Greek instruments, with a 15-member choir singing in Ancient Greek:
Listen to the sound of weather data:
10 or 15 years ago, I had a copy of a DOS program (poem.exe) that generated short poems. Some were good, most boring, some meaningless rubbish. (I think the @poem.exe Twitter account is using dear old poem.exe with a human deciding what to tweet.)
So as someone who’s better at writing lyrics for an existing melody than writing a melody for existing lyrics … interesting tool.
But I always remember that what sells the music industry giant’s idea of music isn’t the music. It’s sex. So when they feed specialist-AI-generated lyrics into specialist-AI-generated melody into specialist-AI-generated avatars – will the domination of musical sex machines like Beyoncé finally be broken?
Only when the avatar looks and acts like her.
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20180112-is-this-the-worlds-first-good-robot-album
A nice story about the power and origin of music:
We forget its power – like we forget the power of sugar – because now we are so massively overexposed to it.
Dancing Treefrog 