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 Today's offering:

Jimi Hendrix's 78th Birthday

A note about this week's podcast.

 

Track #4, the 2020 Birthday Jam, was created this week from the same two bootlegs that Alan Douglas used when he compiled "Captain Coconut" for the 1975 album, Crash Landing: "MLK" and "New Rising Sun".  We both chopped up the originals, but recombined them differently.  My version kept Buddy Miles and Billy Cox. 

 

(Hendrix improvised an original "MLK" at a memorial concert.  This isn't it.  It's been described as one of the most beautiful, heartfelt tunes he ever played.  No known recording.  Oh well.)

 

 

Found Art (Adblocker)

 I used Adblocker on the ads in the margin, and it did this:

 

 We may be looking at some kind of art-generator, here...

WTFBrahh: Paula White's Re-Election Prayer for Donald Trump

 

I hear the sound an abundance of rain, 

I hear the sound of Victory!

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Found Art (Yahoo News)

 Our continuing series, featuring images randomly combined by Internet banner ads.

 

"Ya know, I've always wanted to be a doctor.  Now, bend over!"

Vic Berger & VICE News: A Portrait of Donald J Trump

Mr Berger has been featured on this website before.  He specializes in edited news footage: chopped, slowed, grainy closeups, draaggged out speech, repetition, overdubs, etc.  The result is surreal commentaries that get right up inside their subjects, in a way that's both dreamlike, and disturbing.  This is the first documentary of his that I've seen.  

I remember when a new wave of radio documentaries came out in the early 1970's.  They completely disposed of a narrator, and used the voices and sounds of their subjects to tell the story.  The result was, essentially, an extended cut and paste sound stream.  

Mr Berger is doing the same thing with video, but flavoring it in his own inimitable fashion.

Link to YouTube

Open AI: Classic Pop in the style of Frank Sinatra

 

 

Or not.  It sounds more like John Oswald's Plunderphonics than Frank.  Maybe that time his '59 tour Down Under got a little kooky.  It's Hot Tub Time-- Ring-a-ding-ding!

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This is from an article on the Guardian's website, entitled "'It's the screams of the damned!' The eerie AI world of deepfake music".  (No link.  They want your email, before you can read stories on their site.) 

But the author identifies this as a "Deep Fake", "seemingly performed by Frank Sinatra".  I'll just put that out there, for you cutup fans.  Either any kind of mashup is acceptable as a "deep fake" these days, or the author decided to go for the sizzle without realizing he was looking at a salad.  

Recordings of wacky synchronicity and twisted sampling have been around much longer than Deep Fakes.  I never thought of the latter as falling into that category.  Maybe I should.

 

PS: I really dig that they used Frank's "swinger" period for this.  Nelson Riddle and the boys sound absolutely flipped.

Explain to me again why they have AI news editors

 Is Dracula the photo editor at Google News? Her face is up there, Google.

Phew

 All over except the shouting, as they say.

Update. Nov 19: Well, the "melting image" thing hit Giuliani, so we got it close.