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Post by Deleted on Oct 15, 2017 3:17:53 GMT
Discrimination Against Biological WorkersIn the 1990s I took up composing music for synthetic orchestras that I tried to make sound as close to real as possible, using MIDI devices that produced virtual instruments. The technology collapsed in that area because of at least two opposing factors: living virtuoso musicians refused to give samples of their playing for fear of being replaced, and record companies understood that their cash cow pop performers might end up in the hands of home users producing music with a mouse. Tonight I read a frightening piece describing a robotic symphony conductor which stands to obsolete the imperial conductors of the ages who become recording stars for waving a stick. Not far behind is the robotic orchestra replacing human musicians put to homeless tent camps being raided by gentrific police. Our one defense will be sending in robot audiences to boo and interrupt. Be careful not to dismiss the seriousness by reminding that you are rock stations and care less about classical music. You yourself will soon be displaced by a robot who will wipe your hard-drives and fill them with alien ones and zeroes. The Conductor in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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