The Internet As A Musical Instrument
My observation on how things have evolved over the past few years with artificial intelligence is that creators are now using the internet exclusively to generate content. Just as the recording studio became an instrument in the 1960s, the internet is now an instrument. Using the internet is probably the preferred way now rather than going to the art store and getting art supplies. Ironically, it has become "retinal" again, and not conceptual, or "in the service of the mind" as Marcel Duchamp once said. Every 100 years or so there are paradigm shifts, although many of them are more pendulum swings than tectonic shifts. In any case, using the internet as an instrument is unlike the studio as an instrument in that it is too collective and introduces too much latency into the process. Most of the software that I use now is in the cloud. One that I use continuously in the creative flow is Evernote, which is now completely cloud-based. I really miss the days of installed software because it worked perfectly. Now you have to deal with system latency and/or software updates right in the middle of the flow. The whole idea of note-keeping software is to quickly take notes. Now interruptions can be several minutes, and you can lose your original train of thought. Yesterday I was going to experiment with AI music using Suno but the servers were jammed. Again, you can lose the mood with bottlenecks like this. (It's another example of Limits To Growth).
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