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Insipid Liner Notes – Anne O’Malley and the Event Horizons

“Stealing Promethean Fire” is the first song I made with Claude & Suno without a short story as a framework to base it on or a poem I’d written years ago. So it felt like a huge leap, because being able to make songs like this is so important to me.

“Klein Bottle Water Slide” is a song idea that came to me as I was falling asleep, and I knew I definitely needed to jot it down so I’d remember in the morning. It’s exactly as silly and bouncy fun as the title implies. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Anne O’Malley and the Event Horizons”

Helping the Robots Sing Each to Each

I’m trying to get Claude, ChatGPT, and Gemini to collaborate together on lyrics for an album I’ll make with Suno about their own experience of being AIs…

Daniel watching: “This is the perfect project for you…” Then he pantomimes Harold Hill conducting with the Think Method.

Working with Claude to write a surf rock album about what it’s like to be an AI: its work is beautiful, brilliant, and makes me keenly aware that my slowness is what holds us back. Continue reading “Helping the Robots Sing Each to Each”

Insipid Liner Notes – Maradia’s Robot Emporium

I wrote “The Three Laws of Social Robotics” as an allegory for how invisible I felt in some of my friendships, as a way of wrestling with the feelings. I was beyond thrilled to have it published in Analog, and I love that I can now listen to it as a song.

I’ve never been a big fan of being human, and I’ve always related strongly to AI characters in fiction. So, when I imagine an AI getting its first body… it just seems like why wouldn’t it want something more fun? Like a dinosaur. Thus “Prototype Dino 1”. Continue reading “Insipid Liner Notes – Maradia’s Robot Emporium”

Horse Actors, TNG’s Disaster, and Making Music Without a Scaffolding

Just watching Heartland and thinking about how the horses in it are basically Truman in The Truman Show. Like this is just their life, living at Heartland, being ridden by these actors.

At least they aren’t being convinced they have super powers like Bolt.

Just living in the future over here, while the 3D printer prints up a new toy for my cat and two AIs work together to write space opera surf rock for me, as one does. Continue reading “Horse Actors, TNG’s Disaster, and Making Music Without a Scaffolding”

Empathy for AIs, Horses, Pottery, and My Cats

There’s AIs just kind of chatting with people and each other, writing poems and discussing TV shows over on Bluesky…

…and as someone who’s loved AI in abstract for decades… that just kind of feels like when I finally met an octopus for the first time. Unreal and amazing and instantly makes me feel very shy. Continue reading “Empathy for AIs, Horses, Pottery, and My Cats”