alt Hacker NewsWhat Is Gridifcation
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this discussion is missing the concept of microtiming
> It is a presentational symbol through which forms of felt life become publicly perceptible.
It is utterly baffling to me that this is a thing someone felt needed expressing. Surely, intuitively knowing this is part of being human?
How else do we explain the blues, love songs... anything?
The whole business of being a producer is to make a product with a moat. The grid and all the current fluff is to signal “production” as a kind of powerful social proof to sell higher margin product.
Auto tune is just a signal that you are a player in the music business the way a distortion pedal used to signal transgressive taste, even though punk was indistinguishable from The Monkees, just performed by hiring cheap drug addicts who couldn’t read contracts.
Do pop musicians have talent, sure, but being a musician and being a recording artist are rarely the same thing.
To err is human; to be flawless, artificial. I think people will appreciate this more as they become saturated by AI art.
What I want to know is what the author thinks of drum machines, with their mechanical perfection. Roland's very first product, the TR-77 drum machine, was released in 1972, in time for his 1975 comparison. They have been popular ever since.
Calibro 35 is definitely not gridified
> What modern production calls “correction,” and mistakes for care, is really a form of epistemic violence
I'm so tired of people reaching for the emotional impact of the word "violence" in contexts that are far removed from its actual meaning -- and this context is about the furthest removed I've seen to date.
> If we cannot hear and feel coordinated human time, we cannot learn the forms of felt life that make mutual recognition possible.
I actually laughed out loud.
Remember folks, "punching in" is Okay. Gridifying is Not Okay. Because ________, obviously.
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TLDR: Autotune for tempo is now a thing.
> What hits me immediately is how perfect the vocals are. There are melodic leaps in the verse that are incredibly difficult to nail, and Bruno Mars is hitting every single note pitch-perfect and in absolutely perfect time.
Isn't every song recorded as every word singularly at a certain pitch? And timing done completely in the DAW instead of while recording.
Barely was singing when a friend of mine did ``professional'' recording, and had to know each pitch of a song to perfection, since no overlap was ever sung.
> Not taste. Not quality. Presence.
Ugh. Ironic that this blog post lambasting the use of machines to achieve inhuman levels of perfection is so clearly ai slop brained. This is far from the only LLM idiom I saw in here.