Evan Gedert

Reminder that AI is not just creatively and culturally destitute, but is also explicit thievery of already underpaid labor.

This is your periodic reminder that education (higher or otherwise) has benefits other than improving your capacity to perform in the labor market, and these benefits may in fact even be *more important* than employability.

Are you talking about identifying them based on number of flats and sharps? There’s an easy rule for that. Flats the key is the second rightmost flat, and the sharps it’s a half step up from the rightmost sharp.

I think CDs are way better than vinyl for a physical collection and I’m tired of pretending otherwise😂

Why Walking Helps Us Think Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Just listened Space 1.8 the other day, great album

Dance of the Lampyridae -

Fireflies are in trouble, coinciding with a large scale loss of insect biodiversity in the US

You can help to provide habitats for fireflies by leaving areas of leaf litter in your yard - the perfect place for their larvae to grow
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#music #marimba #firefly #musicsky

Satellite

Performed by Lono Saxophone quartet

Score and full recording are available on my website, evangedert.com/satellite
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#musicsky #saxophone #music #sax

The premiere recording of Satellite is now available through my website

evangedert.com/satellite/

#saxophone #music #musicsky #composer

I have a new website! Check out evangedert.com for recordings and scores of my compositions!

#composer #musicsky #music

A World Without Rain

See the full performance here : www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ppse...

#music #musicsky #marimba

The acceleration of AI media consumption is really concerning, I never thought it would be this rapidly absorbed into the common culture... It serves only to segment the population even further and to remove authentic shared experiences between people. We really need stronger community.

The Velvet Sundown are a seemingly AI-generated band with 325k Spotify listeners Fully AI-generated music is only accounting for a tiny proportion of streams on services like Spotify and Deezer at the moment.

Totally fake band, AI-generated “psychadelic folk,” polluting streaming playlists, 300k listeners, fake bio with fake quote from Billboard. This has never been about facilitating art—it’s one more way for big tech to siphon as much money from artists as possible.

The image is a poster advertising the premiere of a band composition titled "Voyage for Band" written by Evan Gedert. The premiere will be with the Saginaw Eddy Concert Band, Sunday July 13th at 7:00 pm at the Jolt Credit Union Event Park in Saginaw Michigan

Very excited to announce the premiere of my composition "Voyage for Band" with the Saginaw Eddy Concert Band! This group has a great sound and lots of amazing talent, and I'm very excited to work with them as a composer!
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"I asked chatgpt, I asked grok" yeah well I've given up all chance at inner peace. I've made my mind a sunless space. I share my dreams with ghosts. I wake up every day to an equation I wrote 15 years ago from which there's only one conclusion, I'm damned for what I do.

The problem is most passive Spotify shuffle listeners can’t tell the difference

Covina, CA REPRESENT! NO KINGS!

No kings.

Exciting things coming!

Judge blocks Trump administration from closing the Education Department The federal judge also told the administration to reinstate department employees who lost their jobs during the reduction-in-force announced in March.

BREAKING NEWS: A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from carrying out Trump's executive order calling for the closure of the Education Department.

This is nothing more than a marketing stunt by OpenAI, best to ignore and move on

What losing billions in federal grants means for universities, and the nation The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.

The Trump administration has so far frozen about $11 billion in research funding. University leaders say no other source can fill the void.

High Fructose Philosophy

Today’s episode of Hobby Lobby slop products

Hobby Lobby is FILLED with ai generated images on products, quite ironic for a company that doesn’t use barcodes because they want to rely on human connection and skills.

Just listened to these, the string quartet is incredibly serene. A shame that John Cage the composer is often ignored in favor of John Cage the philosopher

Which pieces would you recommend for his other side of writing?

There’s a really strong link here between the commodification of aesthetic and far right ideals, fascism is incapable of creating, only plundering.

If you use AI art you’re messing around with fascist aesthetics. They have no artistic talent and hold art in low esteem, and that’s what you’re doing if you use AI art in your projects