i like real art

Joined April 2024
A piano in the room is real. A recording of a piano isn’t it’s a reproduction, an echo of an event that already happened and is gone. The moment something is captured, encoded, and played back, you’re not experiencing it. You’re experiencing evidence of it.
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4/ A human playing an instrument is never exactly identical twice. But a digital file wants to spread. That’s what it was designed to do. So when people act shocked that machines can read, learn, and remix digital music, it feels backwards.
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5/ You turned music into machine readable information. Then the machine read it. Once something becomes digital, the scarcity is basically over. The file already escaped.
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simulating a medium is not working in that medium
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