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Album written for ketamine therapy

My album Desire Path from my band Casts is out today. I wrote the album to guide my Spravato therapy with an upbeat entry point that dives into ambient and contemplative electronic songs. When writing it, I kept coming back to Reddit for opinions on what works for people. Everything flows into each other like one long song so there’s no abrupt transitions. I adjusted it so the cellos and clarinets come through to really feel the resonance during treatment. It’s been helpful for me and I hope it can play a part in your treatment, too.

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u/Milhouse6969 — 5 hours ago
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AI : Devil's Advocate

I'm leaving my personal opinions aside here. I certainly don't mean to troll. For background, I have been experimenting with music for more than 45 years. My day job ended up being in computers, I had a very early interest in AI.

So ...

You are a musician. By definition, your output is sound (typically expressed in some secondary medium). It's made through some mix of cognitive processes, sensory-motor skills, very likely involving technology of some kind.

Your mental processes are a mix of nature & nurture.

I think we can leave aside nature for the sake of argument, talk of the nurture. You have listened to your lifetime's worth of sounds. Whether it be music in the traditional sense or incidental, it's all gone in.

When you, as a creative musician, wish to make a new piece of music, you draw on all that history. As an *experimental* musician, you try things out more than simply regurgitating a different version of what you did yesterday. Or do you?

Yes, we make conscious choices about the things we do, but those are also the product of our past experience.

Contrast with recent AI. Put crudely, the output is generally a product of what it has been trained on. A glorified database that happens to be rather good at spewing out things that resemble what it's heard.

But how are we, at a fundamental level, any different?

Or, better question, how is a person that exploits the glorified database any less creative than a person that say, can improvise jazz on Brahms?

Do you think humans have a qualia that differs from these machines? Are you prepared to accept the supernatural, like a soul?

More to the point, is a person that uses an Artificial Intelligence to create music lacking anything that you have internally?

Maybe it's just intellectual/artistic snobbery?

Go on, roast this argument and/or put up a stronger one (with which you might disagree).

Did I mention I have a new album out? I'm for sure an artistic snob.

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u/danja — 1 day ago
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My EP – VAN D ‘85’ – dropped today.

Hey Reddit,

After my divorce, things started happening I couldn't explain. So I wrote an EP.

This isn't just a rap album.

It's a public record. Confessional. Dark. Lo‑fi hip‑hop.

No apologies. Just the document.

Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/album/6npfTyx4AqFZq26jo4LGb0

🎧 Also on YouTube Music: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_n0V_kNMOrafqFhD0_hoZ37vmLeG-H4sWI

Ask me anything. I'll be in the comments.

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u/MMA_Van — 20 hours ago
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How do you feel about generative sounds and AI?

Alongside the rise of AI-generated music there's also some serious pushback, very visible around Reddit.

I'm curious about people's opinions around here.

I've only had a brief play with systems like Suno, where the AI models create mostly from their memories of what they were trained in. It may be better with a pro account, but I found it both amazing and disappointing. Amazing because you get quasi-finished tracks out of thin air, disappointing because there's always a familiarity, heard it before.

Ok, that's an extreme case of machine-assist.

I've recently been working a lot recently with generative plugins. None (as yet) actually incorporates AI at run time, but they are algorithmic. I have a bass line generator that operates according to certain rules (genre, key, scale etc), another that does counterpoint against it, another that adds chords, another that sequences drums.

I also now have an AI vocalist. A friend sent me a speaking toy AI bot which is hooked up to a language model in China. So I've strapped it to a microphone. I can tell it a prompt and it delivers its response into the mic. Great fun.

So, thoughts?

A tool is just a tool, you should use anything you like, still legit (my personal opinion)? Or do you draw the line somewhere, some systems are somehow *wrong*?

Here's a video I recorded yesterday making a lot of use of the generative plugins, together with the AI vocals : https://youtu.be/CCkw3s7abps?is=mZqG7rjYsmWFYeqx

The generative plugins are around here : https://github.com/danja/downspout

I just released an album that uses some of the plugins here and there : https://github.com/danja/attone

u/danja — 1 day ago
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Four way noise split for charity

Hey there,

We at 88.7 Records just released a four way split. It's all noise music by 160m band, Uranomania, Naweed Hoshmand and Constant Variant.

All the profits from this release, physical and digital, will be going to the Union Mission homeless shelter in Memphis, TN.

And if you see anything else you like, use the promo code "INTERNMICHAEL" to get a discount.

Ciao!

88.7 RECORDS PRESENTS: BY THE SKIN OF MY TEETH, A FOUR WAY SPLIT FOR CHARITY (CASSETTE RIP) | Various artists | Radio Free Memphis

u/RFM887 — 1 day ago
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Фолк, эмбіент і дум-метал. «Шлях» - трэк з новага альбома Цішыні Успамінаў: калі беларуская балада не змяшчаецца ў межах жанраў

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Альбом «Міжсьветы» - гэта гук, які нарадзіўся дзесьці паміж палескімі балотамі, старадаўнімі матывамі і тым, што звычайна прыходзіць толькі ў снах. Гэта падарожжа праз туман, агонь, памяць і цішыню.

Асаблівае месца ў альбоме займае сумесная праца Цішыні Успамінаў і Belle Morte «Шлях» - для тых, хто хоча пачуць беларускую музыку за межамі чаканага.

Гэта момант, дзе альбом «Міжсьветы» канчаткова перастае быць проста фолк-эмбіентам.

Трэк пачынаецца як туманная фолк-балада, але паступова ператвараецца ў цяжкую, амаль тэатральную містэрыю ў чатырох актах. Тут славянскія матывы сустракаюцца з дум-металам, чысты жаночы вакал - з гроўлам, а лірычная прыгажосць - з адчуваннем, зямля сыходзіць з-пад ног.

u/NewPreparation1630 — 2 days ago
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I made a Dark Ambient / Concrète album during a post-surgery insomnia night. Only used a phone to record a guitar, ocarina, and hitting my bass with a lighter, then stretched and reversed everything in Premiere.

J$/333 - kkqwtpek (FULL ALBUM)

I wanted to share this 15-minute experimental project I put together during a pretty rough, sleepless night recovering from surgery. The atmosphere in the room was dense, and I decided to channel that weird post-op insomnia energy into sound.

Everything you hear was recorded entirely on my phone using just a few things I had around: a guitar, an ocarina, some whistles, and the sound of me hitting my bass strings with a lighter to get those metallic, heavy thuds.

After recording about two hours of raw audio, I threw it into Premiere, stretched the speed to the extreme, reversed tracks, and layered things both intentionally and completely at random to capture the chaos of that night.

It turns out that slowing down an ocarina or reversing a lighter hitting a bass creates some pretty haunting drone and noise textures. If you're into raw, lo-fi, and deeply atmospheric dark ambient, I’d love to hear what you think.

Thanks for listening!

u/Tiny-Historian-3968 — 2 days ago
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Loma Prieta Earthquake Sonifications

The magnitude 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake killed 63 people and caused billions of dollars in damage in northern California on October 17, 1989. I've sonified the data recorded by 70 USGS seismographs during that earthquake. This 4 minute Bandcamp album includes 10 short examples. Details on how I did it are in the Bandcamp album. Every track sounds different because each seismograph captured the resonances of the structures they were in along with the ground shaking. Sometimes the seismic waves sound a lot like water waves. Sometimes I seem to hear human voices or acoustic instruments in them, especially in the Seismic Mix tracks. I'm working on a piece of music where all of the sounds are derived from the Loma Prieta earthquake.

Free to listen to online at Loma Prieta Earthquake Sonification Examples

u/jamcultur — 2 days ago
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I made a new experimental rap album with creative samples

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3oWgA0ttQ

I released a new album called Self Portrait Of Music and it's an experimental album where I mostly rap and sing a little bit. I tried my best to make this album an experience with my creativity, the lyrics are truthful and creative with observations. This album was inspired by Experimental Hip Hop, Rock and Roll, Also pop music. I sampled the sound of passionfruit rolling in a bowl and the sound of a bird and a power drill drilling.

u/CurrentAmbition5621 — 4 days ago