'Never Say Everything You Know' by Darryl Mason
I made the below piece of generative music the old fashioned pre-A.I. and digital media way, by layering tape loops playing at different speeds. Some of the oldest samples and loops in this are from TV shows I recorded in the late 1970s by holding a tape recorder up to the TV's speaker. I have no idea which cartoons or TV shows or ads I sampled back then.
I always wondered why I'd held onto those audio cassettes for so long. I'm glad I did. You can't replicate the fuzzouts and random glitchery of ancient tape recordings, particularly ones exposed to direct sunlight sitting on a bookshelf for ten years (oops).
I have no problem discussing when or where I used Generative A.I. Music technology, but this noisefest is all mine. I am going to 'recast' this piece at some point with Gen A.I. to see what results and what new realms I can take it in, beyond my own synths and keyboards.
I used to tape record everything in my teens, when I had tapes. And a recorder. 'Never Say Everything You Know' includes the first time I ever picked up a guitar and tried to play a solo. I can't play now, so why would I care if anybody knows I couldn't play in my teens?
The most recent sample in there is a grab from the theme song of the U.S. Space Force agency. It's one of the worst theme songs for anything I've ever heard. So I had to include just a bit for the paranoia and authoritarian vibe.
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Yeah, I think I am going to remix this with A.I.
Never Say Everything You Know on YouTube