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Musician: Pianist, composer, singer-songwriter Human: In love with my spouse and our dog Advocate and ally https://muz4now.com/ https://muz4now.bandcamp.com/ No DM Just my shares: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:sdkxyw2r7xlx5kjhsolgagv6/feed/aaaiiikjmxciw
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 3d
All the tech companies are so excited about generative AI. But why are so many musicians "buying" into the LLM craze? Is it a "sellout"?
#NoAI #art
Generative AI and the Musician – #LLM #NoAI
Does generative AI have usefulness? Maybe. Generative In Tech In my technology job, LLM (Large Language Models) and generative AI are all the rage. "This will change the world forever." Really? And will that change be for the better? Initially, I experimented with generative AI1 at that tech job and a single post on this blog. These forays into LLM-land left a bad taste in my soul.
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 6d
Hear what the muse has to say: Events and Gigs – Stan Stewart
Events and Gigs - Stan Stewart
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 6d
Ready for what? And some tech talk #improvpiano #piano #pianoimprov #pianoimprov #technology
Ready for what? And some tech talk
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MosesHawk @rememberxyz.bsky.social · 6d
Coming to DC on Wed:
Profile: Sometimes a term is so apt, its meaning so clear and so relevant to our circumstances, that it becomes more than just a useful buzzword and grows to define an entire moment. “Enshittification,”
The Age of Enshittification
In a new book, the technology critic Cory Doctorow expands on a coinage that has become bleakly relevant, in Silicon Valley and beyond.
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ourmindonmusic.bsky.social @ourmindonmusic.bsky.social · 6d
Celebrating 43 Years of the Sony CDP-101: The World’s First Commercial CD Player

Do you remember seeing your first CD player? What was YOUR first CD? This post celebrates the release of the world’s first commercially available CD player, Sony CDP – 101 celebrating its 43rd anniversary this week!
Celebrating 43 Years of the Sony CDP-101: The World’s First Commercial CD Player
Do you remember seeing your first CD player? What was YOUR first CD? This post celebrates the release of the world’s first commercially available CD player, Sony CDP – 101 celebrating its 43rd anniversary this week!
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Stan Stewart aka muz4now @muz4now.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Ready for what? And some tech talk #improvpiano #piano #pianoimprov #pianoimprov #technology https://muz4now.com/2025/ready-for-what-and-some-tech-talk
Ready for what? And some tech talk
### Please share! * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * More * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * Ready to listen. In all the ways that can mean. ## Ready or Not A few days ago, I released a new piano improvisation single. You may listen to it wherever you like. Or click the play button below. As you see, the title of this piece is “U Better B Read E”. Obviously, this is a play on words about being ready. In these times, we must be ready to protect the people we love and even help the stranger in need. There are so many who need this protection with the greedy, hate-mongers in power. ## And Now the Geeky Stuff The piano in our dining room is a Kawai. In addition to being a wonderful digital piano, it also has some great technical features. One of those features is an app that loads on my phone or pad called PianoRemote. And now, you can begin to imagine what it does. There’s a bluetooth connection between the piano and the app that allows for many kinds of tweaking. While the ability to tweak the sound of the piano is interesting, there’s another feature that has served me well. ## Ready to Transfer On the Kawai digital piano, I play the improvisation while “recording” it into PianoRemote. Just press the record button and improvise. Stop the recording when I’m done and it prompts me to name the piece. There are several things I can do with the saved pieces. All I have to do is select the triple-dot menu. From there, I can play them back on the digital piano (which is pretty magical); save them to cloud storage (DropBox, etc.); or transfer them to the computer where my DAW recording studio lives. These saves or transfers of the improvisation are in MIDI format, so they are quite small. Once I load these into my DAW, it’s just a few hours of work to get them ready for release. How fun is that? _The screenshots ofPianoRemote are the intellectual property of Kawai Musical Instruments Mfg. Co., Ltd. They are used here only for illustration purposes and no copyright violation is intended. This website and its owner are not affiliated with Kawai in any way and receive nothing for sharing this information._ ### Please share! * Click to share on Mastodon (Opens in new window) Mastodon * Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window) LinkedIn * Click to share on Threads (Opens in new window) Threads * Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Bluesky * Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) Email * More * * Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook * Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window) Reddit * * Click to share on Tumblr (Opens in new window) Tumblr * Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window) Pinterest * * Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X * ### Like this: Like Loading... ### _More for you_ * * * ### Discover more from Stan Stewart - @muz4now Subscribe to get the latest posts sent to your email. Type your email… Subscribe
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Jazzman A.H. @jazzmanah.bsky.social · 5d
David Gilmour performed « Don’t » (« That’s What You Say ») in Live Elvis Presley Tribute.
Enjoy, have a nice day everyone!
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David Gilmour - Don't (From Leiber And Staller Tribute Concert 2001)
YouTube video by David Gilmour
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feinstruktur @feinstruktur.bsky.social · 5d
Another track from the collection:
Dark Forces
from the album In the Proximity of Gods (Hauntology 3)
by feinstruktur
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#OriginalMusic #ExperimentalMusic #Noise #soundscape
Dark Forces, by feinstruktur
from the album In the Proximity of Gods
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Edward Givens @edwardgivens.bsky.social · 6d
may this laborious stair
and this stark tower
become a roofless ruin
that the owl may build in the cracked masonry
and cry her desolation
to the desolate sky

The Tower (2020)
🏷️ #musicsky #composer #musicvideo #tarot
🔗 edwardgivens.bandcamp.com/track/the-tower

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The Tower from The Fool and The World by Edward Givens #tarot
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 5d
By far my most viewed song (that's not a cover) on PeerTube: "Early".
A flippant song about insomnia.
#OriginalMusic #SingerSongwriter
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Early - Song Video By Stan Stewart
Here's the preview of the first original song from the upcoming "How to Rise and Keep Rising" folksong album by Stan Stewart: Early. A tongue-in-cheek look at the insomnia of the songwriter.
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Randulo @randulo.com · 5d
How do You feel?
You think this shit is real?

#OriginalMusicTracks
Welcome to The Simulation
YouTube video by Randy Resnick
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 5d
Open Letter to Deezer on the Advent of Track Removals #musicianresources #musiciantips
Open Letter to Deezer on the Advent of Track Removals
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 5d
Get Real - How Community Informs Reality
#community
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Get Real - How Community Informs Reality
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Mark Tisdale 🏳️‍🌈 @tismark.bsky.social · 5d
"We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love."

- Robert Fulghum (likely)

#Gay #QueerArt #Art #GayKiss #DigitalArt

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Digital art that is mostly blue black and white hues. Shows two men in silhouette standing on rocks kissing. They are surrounded by waterfalls with water pooling around the rocks they are standing on.
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 5d
When Family Comes First - Spending time with them all
When Family Comes First - Spending time with them all
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The Pomegranate County Irregulars @pomcountyirregs.bsky.social · 6d
Started the day thinking, well, maybe I'll try to do a new surf instrumental. Instead, picked up an 8 bar riff from three weeks back and developed it. Made a video as well.

Low grade #psychedelia

Gravity Won't Win

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Gravity Won't Win
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John M Davis @jdsampo.bsky.social · 4d
Also on Bandcamp! I'm debating whether to put this on streaming too, I probably will.

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A Fool's Errand, by John M Davis
track by John M Davis
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Tiffany Sanerd @atypicaltiff.bsky.social · 3d
It's late, but I have an update. I didn't stay alone. A few minutes into trailers, another woman came in, saw me with half a hot dog sticking out of my face, & said, "I'm so glad you're here." After some horror chat, we exchanged numbers, & she offered to take me to an art house theater she likes.
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Tiffany Sanerd @atypicaltiff.bsky.social · 4d
I knew I wasn't going to find anyone to see Good Boy with me, so I did the thing. Apparently my midlife crisis is eating hot dogs in empty movie theaters, and I'm pretty stoked about that.
My crossed black and white platform 3-stripe Adidas sneakers crossed on a reclining theater seat with a YUMMMY red-on-white design hot dog box in foreground and a movie trailer scene of a dirty bathtub surround in the background Rows of padded black leather reclining movie seats in an empty theater
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Steve "Nuke it from Orbit" Turnbull @taupress.com · 3d
#QueerPrompts

My book MONSTERS is called that for a reason.

“I think a servant of the enemy would look fairer and feel fouler.” ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Book cover for MONSTERS. A naked woman, shown from behind and virtually a silhouette, stands looking away from the viewer. She has bat wings so wide they go off the sides. Above her is the bio-hazard symbol and on the horizon is a derelict city. Apart from the title in the top middle, the text reads Steve Turnbull, USA Today Bestselling Author at the top, Rise of the Kymiera volume 1 below the main title. Designer: Rafael Andres
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Kallie Marie @doomgolly.bsky.social · 3d
I share to educate- because men have the power to change a lot of things for the better.
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florgoth @florgoth.bsky.social · 3d
Pretty much, yeah. LLMs can be useful tools, but they are horribly misused in about 95% of cases.
And telling a computer "make me some art" is completely missing the point of what art is.
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John M Davis @jdsampo.bsky.social · 3d
I think of gen AI tools like Suno as a step beyond creating music by stringing together sample loop “construction kits”. The latter is playing with Legos which can be a very creative endeavor. Suno is having someone play with your Legos for you.
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Stan Stewart (muz4now) @muz4now.com · 3d
Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
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Meditations on Pushing a Creative Project Too Far
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Frank Fischer @frankfischer.bsky.social · 3d
Es ist mir ein Rätsel, wie es Menschen geben kann, die dieser Einschätzung einer bewundernswerten Frau unbedingt widersprechen wollen und meinen, Trump oder Musk seien ganz normale Menschen mit "legitimen" (Spahn) Positionen.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 3d
'“There are people I don’t like, and I would like to put them on one of Musk’s spaceships and send them all off to the planet he’s sure he’s going to discover,” Goodall tells interviewer Brad Falchuk during the revelatory 55-minute special discussing her life, work and legacy.'
Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space
Primatologist said in interview released after her death she would also put Putin, Xi and Netanyahu on that spaceship
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Peter Shaw @pcsoblahdeehell.bsky.social · 8d
"Eight pieces of …" ( #jazzsky series 26)

TIME (not x...) - SET B

B3: Time On My Hands (Youmans)

Art Tatum: piano

LA, 25 July 1949

Incomparable Art. All across common time, & more. The Capitol sides are, to me, the best of the best Tatum - and with decent piano & recording technology.
Time On My Hands (You In My Arms)
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Jazzman A.H. @jazzmanah.bsky.social · 2d
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The 'typhoon-proof' wind farms powering China's coast
China is racing to develop a new generation of wind farms that can not only survive tropical cyclones, but also harness their power.
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