How technophobes harnessing the first Digital Audio Workstations, aristocrats ripping off epoch-making composers and god MCs arguing with Google Devs help me to imagine an AI artistic practice with soul.

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Intro music: pentagon - Heal

Sources:Izumi Suzuki, Night Picnic Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst: The Call Snatch (2000) Eastenders 1987: GRAFFITI - Is It ART, CRIME... or Both? Goldie 'Inner City Life' | The Making Of A Drum & Bass Classic Goldie talks Timeless and The Journeyman Rob Playford: Producing Goldie Goldie webchat – as it happened Idris Elba's How Clubbing Changed the World Ghost producer, or studio collaborator? Mozart's Requiem Lupe Fiasco x Large Language Models | Google Lab Sessions Lupe Fiasco - Glass of Water - My first song co-written with AI AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test? Global economic study shows human creators’ future at risk from generative AI

Music used (chronologically):

Phantom Orchard - Night Picnic

HIVE Choir - Rise

Goldie - Inner City Life

Rob Playford & Goldie - The Shadow (Process Mix)

Goldie - Terminator

Mozart - Requiem

Lupe Fiasco - Glass of Water

Holly Herndon - Jolene (feat. Holly+)

Leeds Vocal Movement - Fhir A' Bhàta

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