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There definitely is something about holding something in your hand that will give you music. Involving the listeners touch and vision on the lead up to hearing a song is possibly overlooked. I enjoyed going to the record shop and buying the single or album, sitting on the bus, with it on my knee with my forearms laying on top and my fingers clasped over the edge of the album shaped plastic bag on my lap, thinking about the music that would be inside, what the inner art work would look like, thinking about what the band are looking like/what are they wearing this time, then getting home and putting on the kettle, cup of tea, then take it out the bag and cut or in my case rip the cellophane off and slip out the sleeve and see the inner art work, give the record a smell, and it smells like new books or just new and plasticky, then put the record on and listen. The senses were more engaged before everything went digital. It’s a pity but it’s not the be all and end all. I’m glad that gigs are still a similar experience. And buying merch at a show or getting it through the mail is still similar. If a song is still great, all the other stuff around it was the wrapping. That said, I’m glad I got the steamy bus window on a rainy evening with record on lap then cups of tea ceremony.
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Hey Grace.
You’re welcome. Cheers for the book .
Fran
When I stub my toe.
Once we reach 20 people then we can see what’s out there to watch. The more the merrier. There are a lot of films. While Almost Fashionable is the greatest movie ever made, I think there are some others we could choose from.
That’s nice Walker. Thanks.
Neither are easy or hard. Writing songs is like trying to get a bird to land in your hand without bait.
My brain just melted.
Clay
I think ai is a good tool for the sciences. Not sure about art because art is a trait that is likely to be distinctly human. Ai traits are different and if it is allowed to make its own art for itself I think it will make interesting stuff… possibly. I doubt they will ever reach GI but its computational abilities should open an incredible new chapter in science. I never thought the future would be like this. The last 25 years have been so technologically accelerated. The mass dissemination of information brought about on the social media platforms and the internet at large is of an unfathomable scale. Like when the printing press arrived. It was a cultural catalyst that lead to a thirty year war which took ages to tidy up. I tend to stay away from my phone these days. Every time I get the urge to pick up my phone I pick up a book. I’ve taught myself pretty well. Currently reading Dubliners. Just finished Great Expectations. Anyways that’s my two cents.
The videos for nearly all the songs on this album were connected so one flows into the next. The first video is set in a nightclub and some guy spikes my drink and the following videos are essentially me tripping my tits off. Hence the weird Magnificent Time video directly after that. We released a limited edition version of the album that contained a dvd ( I think) of all the videos to be seen as one long music video. My favorite videos of this project were 3 Miles High and Everything at Once where one of the Berlin TV stations allowed us to hijack their set for the Children’s TV show starring Dirk Brûlée played by the Spanish/German actor Daniel Bruhl. Oh yeah and Neil playing the sun was very funny too.
Thanks Jos
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Cheers Kaori
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Thanks ICITTBW
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Thanks Sandy
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