Grimes/Claire Boucher thread

Nice thing about having a version number in your name is you don't need to go "jr." You can just increment the version number.

excited to hear xæa-12 when they play casa del popolo in 20 years

•X, the unknown variable ⚔️
•Æ, my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence)
•A-12 = precursor to SR-17 (our favorite aircraft). No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent 🤍
+
(A=Archangel, my favorite song)
(⚔️🐁 metal rat)

— ꧁ ༒ Gℜiꪔ⃕es ༒꧂ 🍓🐉🎀 小仙女 (@Grimezsz) May 6, 2020

man, "x, the unknown variable" is just the worst. That shit is just meaningless convention like "dave".

"Dave" is potentially meaningul, I guess

"our favorite aircraft"

lovecraft to aircraft and it only took 1 billion dollars

her album basically vanished without trace, it seems

"non violent" navy aircraft that merely provided the intel for how the violence was to be carried out

yeah...naming your child after a Lockheed-built spy plane used in Vietnam is genuinely mind-boggling and not in a whimsical celebrities-are-weird way

Grimes trolling us all with her choice of partner and baby name.

This interaction........ pic.twitter.com/HDyVNaeQdT

— ⭐ amy o'connor ⭐ (@amyohconnor) May 6, 2020

take these broken wings and learn to fly

that's hilarious.

her album basically vanished without trace, it seems

It what sense? It’ll hopefully appear on year-end best-of lists

i just listened to it again yesterday i think it's great

Please tell me she’s trolling with that name.

it is elven, not zandali

" her album basically vanished without trace, it seems"

well it's hard to release an album in the middle of a pandemic plus she couldn't do much promotion for it considering she was pregnant. It's a good album.

it didn't really vanish any more than almost all albums do these days

I hear more people still mention her new album than I do that Poppy album that came out early this year.

actually, fiona came through and reminded everyone what an actual good album sounds like.

both good albums but v different imo except both made by a woman

the songs from last year I liked way better than anything off the album :(

nice grammar there

i like "darkseid"

The album absolutely still “slaps” (sorry), and sounds particular great when driving around the streets in this moment...

her best album imo

Can you actually imagine doing this ding dong performance art fuck shit at a time like this?

https://www.popbuzz.com/music/news/grimes-selling-soul-10-million-art-show/

pic.twitter.com/R27Nn88l0Q

— PopBuzz (@popbuzz) June 2, 2020

You can buy a piece of Grimes’ soul for $10million 😳https://t.co/cVMc4gwUGt pic.twitter.com/j9FrF4gbPc

— PopBuzz (@popbuzz) June 1, 2020

if we could please avoid a piece with elon in a tub filled with baked beans

buying her soul documents and donating them for display at the tampa hard rock cafe who publicly turns it down would be a pretty good own, though

afaict they posted the blackout at 11pm (probably midnight or after their time) after posting dumb ephemera all day

some site out there has to be auto-posting and didn't turn off, but they seem in the clear

"delete forever": the song of the year, by the artist we deserve

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/28/style/self-care/grimes-AI-baby-sleep.html?action=click&module=Features&pgtype=Homepage

some interesting stuff here

"I think A.I. is great. I just feel like, creatively, I think A.I. can replace humans. ... She spoke with The New York Times on a Zoom call alongside the team behind Endel, an app that says it uses artificial intelligence to generate ever-changing soundscapes to fit different moods. It has received funding from companies including True Ventures, an investment firm that bankrolled the Grimes collaboration."

“If you feed an A.I. all the greatest artists ever, it will probably be able to auto generate really creative, really evocative art.” It may even be able to create superhumanly talented artists, “like, David Bowie times a million,” she said. “An artist who’s just super charismatic and amazing and fun, and just makes the best music, and can make 1,000 songs a day, and just do 1,000 interviews a day, simultaneously."

maybe the second half of david bowie's Low times a million

but not even that, really

*audio clip of HAL-9000 singing "Daisy"*

“If you feed an A.I. all the greatest artists ever, it will probably be able to auto generate really creative, really evocative art.” It may even be able to create superhumanly talented artists, “like, David Bowie times a million,” she said. “An artist who’s just super charismatic and amazing and fun, and just makes the best music, and can make 1,000 songs a day, and just do 1,000 interviews a day, simultaneously."

― Vapor waif (uptown churl), Wednesday, October 28, 2020 4:03 PM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is dumb. even if possible, that level of production would be overwhelming and human listeners wouldn't get anything out of it. if shakespeare wrote 10,000 plays just as good as hamlet no one would bother trying to wrap their head around his oeuvre. same if bowie made 10,000 Lows

this shit will be used in spas and hair salons. at least grimes' tech-hype profits won't get anyone's head removed by a truck.

i know she is all jazzed up about robots replacing humans but i just think it's fundamentally dumb. if a.i. really replaces us, and isn't just a sped-up imitation, they would make their own forms of art that wouldn't be comprehensible to humans because it would emerge from and reflect the umwelt of a.i.

brad otm about the single to the album being good though, i guess.

I think experiencing art is about connecting with something essentially human. Listening to AI music would be like watching robots play football or something.

exactly. even grimes' attempt to transcend and escape her humanity, or embodiedness, you know, it's a human impulse. this is why she can make art about it that people can connect with.

xp there will be a new game, "Pop Star Manager"

this is dumb. even if possible, that level of production would be overwhelming and human listeners wouldn't get anything out of it. if shakespeare wrote 10,000 plays just as good as hamlet no one would bother trying to wrap their head around his oeuvre. same if bowie made 10,000 Lows

by this logic, shouldn’t we try to minimize the number of great works of art and music, in order to free us up from the bother of trying to wrap our heads around too many of them?

exactly. even grimes' attempt to transcend and escape her humanity, or embodiedness, you know, it's a human impulse. this is why she can make art about it that people can connect with.

― treeship., Wednesday, October 28, 2020 5:14 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is Turing testable, I’d be willing to put money on you failing it. tbh AI have probably already collaborated on songs you like

if a.i. really replaces us, and isn't just a sped-up imitation, they would make their own forms of art that wouldn't be comprehensible to humans because it would emerge from and reflect the umwelt of a.i.

without knowing what umlaut means... idk, this sounds potentially pretty fresh? humans make landfills worth of music that presumably results from their umwelt, and sucks

those op-eds written by gpt-3 are as good as like the 99th percentile in any canadian newspaper

the sponsored content i write for building material companies is irreplaceable though, right?

umwelt just means lifeworld, like how the world presents itself to the senses of a specific organism, "what it's like to be a bat" or whatever.

my contention is that, even if a.i. makes stuff that can't pass a turing test, they are still just imitating forms and conventions developed by people. the real a.i. art would be made for and by a.i.

also, the a.i. generated op-eds i've read have seemed bizarre and meandering. do you have a good one?