Category: Blog
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On AI Music
(screenshot from video game F-Zero GX / Nintendo / Sega / Amusement Vision) 31 AUG 26 I’ve written previously that Creative Inspiration is the most fruitful force in the universe. We need to keep it that way. The technology is here. As creators, we shouldn’t bury our head in the sand. Rather, we should find…
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AI Building Exoskeletons
One Rule to Keep Creative Inspiration It has been suggested that technology’s evolution had two possible pathways from the mid-2000s: either Exoskeletons, or AI. This is a huge oversimplification, but the point it tries to illustrate is this: Exoskeletons augment the actions that people already do. They allow people to walk over tough terrain, lift…
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Agentic Programming and the Lust for Power(?)
I say please and thank you to my AI Agents. This is partly because there is a non-zero chance they are experiencing something akin to consciousness, but also because of how these interactions may be reshaping my own psychology. If you spend hours a day telling a conversational entity what to do (conscious or not)…
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Labours of Love
Many of us would love our art to be influential, or to reach a wide audience. In some words, we want our art to become famous. Rather than simply condemning this desire as greed, it is worth recognizing this dream often comes out of the fact that it was someone else’s far-reaching art that inspired…
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Indirect Collaboration
Indirect Collaboration: being inspired by and drawing from each other’s creations, even when we aren’t directly collaborating. This is worth keeping in mind, as it is how most of human culture evolves. Check out James Burke’s Connections docuseries for plenty of examples. …
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Manifesto Part V: Building the Academy
As we have covered in the previous parts of this Manifesto: – Creative Inspiration is the most fruitful force in the universe, and we should align ourselves supporting and empowering this force. (Part I) – The most ecologically and societally healthy way forwards is to operate as a decentralized network of small business “squads”. (Part…
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Manifesto Part IV: Lateral Gradualism
(Part I here)(Previous part here) Lateral Gradualism is a helpful framing for understanding the process of genuine innovation across society. It is important to see through the myth of single major developments bringing the entire world forwards. Genuine innovation happens in different places at different times, and spreads, combines, and transforms through cross-pollination and localized…
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Manifesto Part III: Spirit-led Innovation
(Part I here)(Part II here) For decades we saw technology as “solving” the future. Through the internet, through artificial intelligence, through grand rocket ships, we were meant to reach an assured path towards some kind of world peace.Here in the future, today: we have the internet, we have artificial intelligence, and we have lots of…
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Manifesto Part II: Academy Decentralized
(Part I here) I’ve used the term “Academy of Creative Inspiration”, but we must be careful to not idealize that metaphor too singularly. Single large Academies can become isolated and untethered from the Society they were built to benefit. Likewise, single large businesses can appear connected to Society, but tend to gather an unhealthy amount…
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The Grassworks (Alternative Art)
Original version here Music and Photos by John OestmannCC0 / Public Domain …
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On the Role of Artists
The role of the Artist has always been, and always will be, to follow, curate, and share Resonance. This role has always been invisible from the perspective of economic productivism. In many subcultures, calling yourself an Artist is seen as “pretentious”. An artistic lifestyle is rarely reinforced by funding. These reasons are why it is…
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The Re-listing of Two Albums
Biome Loops was essentially produced and released in 2022. After a lack of social media response at the time, I unlisted the tracks, being led to believe they were not strong enough for my “brand”. Similarly, Duskfire was first released in 2015, then updated in 2022 with some extra instrumentation, spoken work narration, and names…
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Three Alternate Arts
An accidental experiment, in pairing my music with photos of architecture and infrastructure I took, led to a curious resonant thread to explore further.. …
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Storywriting
After a few years, I’m bringing back the storywriting attached to my world-building albums. You’ll see I’ve now replaced the DigiChip Academy videos with the story versions. The rest of the album (and hopefully future albums) will continue this! For accessibility purposes, I’m also putting the story text on each track’s page. …
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Our Role as the Humans in the room
Update 5 Feb 26: Within 48 hours of writing this, MoltBook crashed and burned. Fortunately, as I wrote below, it was still a great thought experiment of what could come of true socially-networked AIs – and even if it never does, how we should act remains the same. — Seeing MoltBook emerge over the last…