adrian

@adrianshegstad.bsky.social

composer guitarist teacher co-founder of Automaphonica https://adrianshegstad.bandcamp.com/ https://soundcloud.com/adrianshegstad they/them 💛🤍💜🖤 I DO NOT CONSENT TO UNSOLICITED ADVICE

it's always so funny to see ai music channels on youtube and in the description they're like "i only use ai to help with the mastering bc i'm not good at it". 1. that's a lie 2. i also suck at mastering and guess what i don't use

A wrestler talked about how he razzed his tagteam partner once for listening to his own music on a car trip, an NYC hardcore band. The wrestler listening to his own band was the drummer. His response was something like, "Why wouldn't I listen if I didn't think my band was making the best music?"

i'm reading a book rn about how accomplished jazz musicians interpret music purely as listeners. the things they say make most music discourse today sound like the shallow, petty squabbling i've always believed was

i don't accept nuanced discussions about AI anymore and neither should you. we don't live in a world that warrants it. it's fundamentally built on non-consent and priming the people who use it to be more easily manipulated by power hungry tech fascists. FUCK AI, FUCK NUANCE

i'm so relieved i made the decision years ago to only write melody with an instrument in hand, cus listening back to shit i wrote clicking in notes with a mouse, it's ain't dookie, but good lord it ain't too far off