Computering
Lots of my in-person conversations of late have usually involved some ranting about the incursion of computing in everything and everyone. The more I think out loud about AI the more I become more blasé or cynical about it. I had thought perhaps I might use it as a way to generate rhythm tracks when I get an idea while playing around on a guitar. What you want ultimately is to use the smaller tools (apps, etc.) in order to use the bigger tools (all instruments together). The goal is to be able to make something with minimal involvement of a computer--otherwise the computer is going to drive the entire process. I'm not against convergent creativity using computers, but they begin to become the computer's ideas. Why should creativity be automated--even throughout the process? If the payoff is that it helps you to be more prolific, what is the value of being more prolific? If we like a piece of music, the criteria for liking it isn't the speed and efficiency by which i...
