Music

Beehive

As you may know, I have not been in Australia much these past months, working and living primarily in Europe, Maastricht more accurately.

The work for which I was primarily here just terminated. Thankfully, during this time I have not been only working, but I have also discovered and involved myself in the rich and diverse local and regional community of musicians, international students and other creative minds of all ages. I have decided to continue this involvement with something a bit different from my usual medtech advisory activities. Stay tune - I will very shortly anounce what #Beehive is about.

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Creative May

The generative and creative AI explosion is here to stay.

The prompt to image hype of mid 2022, driven by the likes of Midjourney, was not just a hype after all.
It was a first step in a bullet-train race which reached the conversational AI station in late 2022.

Now the train has split into a set of gigantic pinball multiballs, causing havoc across all industries.

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Creative 23Q1

Diapason creative - 2023 Q1 Newsletter

Diapason’s resonances this past quarter

After a sold-out concert at Redfern’s iconic 107 venue, Lili Alaska and her band (yours truly included) were lucky to be the first to try out the newly equipped recording studio at the Bondi Pavilion. The same location we opened up with Lindy back in September.

Great feel playing with a brand new set of Zildjian cymbals (little known trivia: Zildjian is one of the oldest operating companies in the world). There was another crash cymbal in the set, I think we should have used it too - it’s important when using K Series. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Creative September

Diapason creative - September Newsletter

Diapason’s resonances this past month

Wind of Change

I rarely listen to multipart podcast series. I tend to binge rather than schedule, so this would be too competing with my workload. I stumbled though last month on Wind of Change from Patrick Radden Keefe. The song that gives it name to the podcast has been part of my teenage years - and this is when (teen+early adulthood) we forge our deepest sensory memories and tastes in music, as is known and used by music-based therapy for Alzeihmer patients. I can’t even remember if the song itself was played to get my attention to it, or whether the name only was sufficient. Either way, I ended up hooked. Full disclosure: I listened at 1.2x and 1.5x speed as I found it incredibly slow - but that may be just me. The investigation is fascinating, full of colourful characters, pieces of historical trivia, and I really recommend listening to the story.
The 2 bonus episodes are also great, illustrating how musing can influence our lives across and in spite of political and geographical limitations.

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Creative August

Diapason’s resonances this past month

CreativeAI_Sydney

I just received my invitation to DALL-E 2 and have started playing with it as you can guess from the images on this post. I haven’t used Midjourney and Gaugan yet. Beyond the “fun” of it, I have been blown away by the quality and depth of some of some of the artworks I have seen recently, like this journey or this landscape.

I am so looking forward to explore this field further at the upcoming Creative AI Symposium. Prof. O. Bown has designed an exciting program with many talented artists, researchers and practitioners over 2+ days here in Sydney (and online). Free registration here. I am honored to chair one of the industry panels where we will hear more from Tomasz Bednarz, Johna Barthelemey, Bhautik Joshi and Jess Edwards

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Creative July

Diapason creative - July Newsletter

Diapason’s resonances this past month

Dope news from Lili Alaska.
Nice concerts recently in Bondi and in the iconic Powerhouse;
Glad Lili went through the French tradition that has been forging characters at the real #FeteDeLaMusique since the 80s: packing a band setup in less than 4 minutes under the rain :D
When the Roots are Deep, new single just released with Santino Salvadore. Give it a spin here as well.

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Creative AI Symposium

Sydney Creative AI Symposium.

At Diapason we are really excited to be part of the organising committee for the upcoming Sydney Creative AI Symposium. This will happen in August 18th-20th at UNSW School of Art & Design, Paddington Campus, on Gadigal Land.

This event will bring together technologists, artists, arts organisations and researchers based in and around Sydney to showcase work, to take stock of what impact AI and generative technologies are having, now and in the future, to solve technological problems and to design the best world we can for arts communities. We are calling out to artists, entrepreneurs, cyber-musicians and AI whisperers to let us know what you are experimenting. Your ideas will shape the format of the event. The full annoucement is there.

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Regulations never sleep

Regs never sleep. And they can wake you up early. Early in the day and early in the startups life-cycle.

When pitching for an early round, it’s tempting to think “Investors at this stage just need 1 slide or 2 to present our classification and a vague regulatory plan. In any case, they can always ask later, during the due diligence”.

Experience proves that investors have done their homework:

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Tiro Cruzado

Groove of the day - Tiro Cruzado - Cross Fire

A groovy bassline is the best possible start for a Wednesday.

I discovered the track on Remi’s Delirium, an Orbital Radio show, also available here. Released by Sergio Mendes on Brazil 1988. This infectious bassline is from Nathan Watts, who has played on many of Stevie Wonder’s hits and tours.

I experienced for the first time with this track the fact that music.youtube is different to “regular” youtube.

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