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Marc Ribot leans over his guitar in his performance at INNtöne Jazzfestival 2024. His white hair os frizzy and he looks at a fellow musician over his glasses.
Posted inCommentary Poetry Technology

Noise, art, and AI. A musician considers the function of art

Marc Ribot responds to a question on whether AI can create. So,…
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May 18, 2026
Separated by more than a century, two musicians share a complaint
Posted inHistory Technology

Separated by more than a century, two musicians share a complaint

Rick Beato and John Philip Sousa agree on a "menace" to music and to human creativity even though they never met.
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July 15, 2024
Apple left its fingers in the press
Posted inCommentary Technology

Apple left its fingers in the press

Some thoughts on thin tablets, a reprise of villainous things, and the weirdly hazy boundaries between things and us.
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May 31, 2024
Book review: Sheila Liming’s Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time
Posted inBook Review Living

Book review: Sheila Liming’s Hanging Out: The Radical Power of Killing Time

A timely, well wrought book. I dive pretty deeply in jam, which can be sticky.
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July 28, 2023
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