@voltronic This a very good and nuanced list and fits my own thinking quite well - though, yours is better articulated. I didn't have my usual annual opportunity to express disquiet on a public platform this year, which I am slightly resenting, as things are moving quickly. I was quite stunned by the extent of use of some of the 'tools' being discussed at the conference. Have you read about the royalties scam that came to light a few days ago?

@voltronic Just following on from your message, would you be willing to express some of your concerns - I suspect we share some!

@voltronic These were, of course, mainly seen through my filters on the talk. It was sponsored by Digital Scholarship at Oxford (the initiative I work for), and I think we are intending to make it available online. I'll post it when we do.

@voltronic I think what interested me beyond the broad shape of that was that May specifically spoke to the idea that investors seek industry disruption (ie decimation of traditional music industry) as a means to generate maximum profit, and that musicians finding ways to harness it and join the conversation properly is a route to avoiding that decimation. There was a lot to think about and agree with in the talk, even if I am deeply troubled by the very real commercial risks to musicians.

@voltronic Absolutely! I still have ambivalence for the technology itself, but I think the overall attitude was one that emphasised use in human creation (song-writing &c. by actual people, possibilities of teaching people these practices) rather than as a replacement for human creation.

Like many classically trained musicians, I feel ambivalence towards the introduction of AI into the creation of music. It was partly for this reason that I enjoyed Maya Ackerman's nuanced keynote at the AI & Music Creativity conference at Wolfson College, Oxford, this morning. #aimusic #digital-scholarship

Work with a collections institution? How well is digitisation is supported? What gets in the way? Oxford colleagues are surveying training provision for collections digitisation in the UK: Could you help by filling in their survey?

https://t.co/YZJf9rCryI

#digitalarchives
#collections
#research

@yadayadayada That's a very lovely image - and a lovely looking space.

Oxford Digital Festival, today: it’s strange how we their so much of this extraordinary socio-technological evolutionary leap for granted.

Thanks for the good wishes, @JPSCHWEIZER63, but it’s all ok: RSA House is a place in London - sorry to hear about your rough time last December though!

In RSA House for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. I'd missed it.

#cosophotography #analogue #photography

Thank you, @see_the_sus!

Another photograph from a couple of years ago.

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@voltronic I'm very out of touch with all these things, now; could you say more about what is the codex and process of discovery? It is always exciting to find new things!

This one was featured on flickr today (it was, and this is very obvious from the 'explore' page, a very slow day, apparently). I thought I'd share it with you, too.

#cosophotography

@feloneouscat I'll bear all that in mind when I'm next looking for a system - this one was a downsizing replacement, and I have strangely mixed feelings about not running pure separates! The sound is definitely very different from my last set-up. Punchier, but much less ... air.

@feloneouscat: happily, I found something free that will serve at least some of my needs, without being something that requires real technical knowledge - though I can't quite believe that the system's manuals give no real clue as to how to set up and use the thing aside from saying that it requires Windows Media Player 10. Such a short-sighted bit of manufacturing!

Well, yesterday I picked up a Marantz M-CR603 that I had bought on eBay for not very much money. I've spent the last couple of hours trying to get the network player to work with my mac, and learning a little more than I did about DLNA servers. It might be an old system (and sadly, the original owner didn't update it to include some of the aftermarket features (and it's no longer supported)), but it still sounds very good.

There are (many) times and days when I forget that I'm a composer, that that was my chosen direction. And then something crops up in my listening that I have written and I ... wonder why I do not do more of that. Today something I wrote as an interlude to a musical I was musical director of in 2017:

https://on.soundcloud.com/4x3LY

#music
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#trackoftheday