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AI meets art, and builds business
AI is a moniker currently much bandied around in management-speak. It becomes wholly more comprehensible and concrete in down-to-earth operational settings. Algorithms meet art Manually re-drawing just one static image into a different artistic style has traditionally required serious artistic and artisanal skill, and almost always takes a prohibitively long time – and that’s what people use Photoshop for. Doing this same thing for a...
Read moreRethinking rock performance – in praise of Puss N Boots
A rock band with an apparent difference, singing to a different tune – three women with a signature style From Potter to Popper Puss N Boots is the slightly clumsy collective moniker for three outstanding female American musicians – Sasha Dobson, Norah Jones and Catherine Popper. I came across them as an indirect result of discovering a remarkable country-rock(ish) band out of my dear Vermont by...
Read moreRethinking classical music pigeon-holing
David Bowie’s Life on Mars reverberates on the organ, in a glorious, spine-chilling triumph of art and virtuosity over crass commercialism David Bowie died on 10 January 2016, orchestrated in a manner seldom before seen in the world of celebrity music. About which more in a separate post. Two days later, organist Christopher Nickol at Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow played a powerful, surging...
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