It has been nearly 2 months since the last post on this topic. Here is the latest credible opinion:
Posts made by SSmith1226
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RE: Bots are getting scary
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Mid Performance Emergency Sub
When you go to see the symphony, you never expect to join the performance impromptu.
But that’s exactly what happened to one man who stepped in from the audience.WRTV’s Megan Shinn spoke to Scott Deal, who had the once in a lifetime opportunity.
Watch the video below for Deal’s story.
I know that Barliman had a similar experience with a Big Band Performance., that he has relayed in a post in the past. Has anyone else been called to perform from the audience mid performance?
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RE: You may be jealous....
I recently saw Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue in concert at the Tree House Brewery Summer Stage in Deerfield, Massachusetts. Needless to say it was an outstanding performance! Here’s a sample from our vantage point.
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RE: How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?
@administrator said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
@dale-proctor said in How about a "Random Meaningless Image...let's see them string"?:
What am I looking at?!
From Wikipedia:
The Penrose triangle, also known as the Penrose tribar, the impossible tribar,[1] or the impossible triangle,[2] is a triangular impossible object, an optical illusion consisting of an object which can be depicted in a perspective drawing, but cannot exist as a solid object. It was first created by the Swedish artist Oscar Reutersvärdin 1934.[3] Independently from Reutersvärd, the triangle was devised and popularized in the 1950s by psychiatrist Lionel Penrose and his son, prominent Nobel Prize-winning mathematician Sir Roger Penrose, who described it as "impossibility in its purest form".[4] It is featured prominently in the works of artist M. C. Escher, whose earlier depictions of impossible objects partly inspired it.
Waterfall (Dutch: Waterval) is a lithograph by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, first printed in October 1961. It shows a perpetual motion machine where water from the base of a waterfall appears to run downhill along the water path before reaching the top of the waterfall.
While most two-dimensional artists use relative proportions to create an illusion of depth, Escher here and elsewhere uses conflicting proportions to create a visual paradox. The watercoursesupplying the waterfall (its aqueduct or leat) has the structure of two Penrose triangles. A Penrose triangle is an impossible object designed by Oscar Reutersvärd in 1934, and found independently by Roger Penrose in 1958.[1] -
RE: Transcribe this one!
This is the best I could do. Don’t try this at home! “Yeah, That’s the ticket”.
Well, actually, even turning the playback speed to 25%, it would be very difficult so rather than recreate the wheel, I will submit these. -
Cab Calloway and Jonah Jones
I just stumbled on this 1950 performance of Cab Callow also featuring Jonah Jones. It was a great performance by all!
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RE: New to this board
@marty-hahn said in New to this board:t.
I’m not great but can get by and play in tune but I am happy to be back sort of. I’m hoping to get good enough to play with a community band. It’s going to take more work but I’m okay with that.
Looking forward to learning from everyone here.Marty,
One way to get “good enough to play with a community band” is to play with one. Specifically, if there is a New Horizons Band near your community, join it. They accept individuals at all levels of experience from the very beginner, to the comeback players, to the more experienced players. I joined one of these bands after a 44 year layoff and worked my way from last seat third trumpet up to first trumpet. I have now been playing seven years and play in multiple community bands, big bands, and have played in orchestras as well. This process began with the New Horizons Band. Below is a link of the locations of the three active New Horizons Organizations in Washington.
Even if one of these is not convenient to your location, with your musical knowledge, you could
join a local community band, start at the bottom, and play what you can. With practice and experience, your skills will improve and you will advance.
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RE: RIP GeorgeB
Very sad news. George was a very nice person. He will be missed, not only by his family and friends in Canada, but here as well.
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RE: Help me identify this Trumpet: Ciicel Consul
The logo “Circe” on the trumpet in question is very appropriate! Circe, in Greek Mythology was a goddess. Odysseus visits her island of Aeaea on the way back from the Trojan War. Circe changes most of his crew into swine. That has happened many times to me, even when I primarily play my Bach.
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RE: Help me identify this Trumpet: Ciicel Consul
This is very similar to the AMATI KRASLICE CONSUL TRUMPET. Photos of this model are below. These were taken from an eBay listing that has since expired. The link to the listing, should anyone be interested, is below the photos.
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RE: Hello! Welcome to TB, who are you?
Your history is similar to mine. My layoff was 44 years and I came back 7 years ago. The trumpet is my main form of recreation and relaxation.
Enjoy the ride and welcome to the site. -
RE: The Beatles Are Back, Sort Of
The following, from BBC News, is a story concerning an interview with Paul McCartney on the subject of AI resurrecting the Beatles, pertinent to this discussion.
Sir Paul McCartney says artificial intelligence has enabled a 'final' Beatles song
By Mark Savage - BBC Music Correspondent
Sir Paul McCartney says he has employed artificial intelligence to help create what he calls "the final Beatles record".
He told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the technology had been used to "extricate" John Lennon's voice from an old demo so he could complete the song.
"We just finished it up and it'll be released this year," he explained.
Sir Paul did not name the song, but it is likely to be a 1978 Lennon composition called Now And Then.
It had already been considered as a possible "reunion song" for the Beatles in 1995, as they were compiling their career-spanning Anthology series.
Sir Paul had received the demo a year earlier from Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono. It was one of several songs on a cassette labelled "For Paul" that Lennon had made shortly before his death in 1980.
Lo-fi and embryonic, the tracks were largely recorded onto a boombox as the musician sat at a piano in his New York apartment.
Cleaned up by producer Jeff Lynne, two of those songs - Free As A Bird and Real Love - were completed and released in 1995 and 96, marking the Beatles' first "new" material in 25 years.
The band also attempted to record Now And Then, an apologetic love song that was fairly typical of Lennon's later career, but the session was quickly abandoned.
"It was one day - one afternoon, really - messing with it," Lynne recalled.
"The song had a chorus but is almost totally lacking in verses. We did the backing track, a rough go that we really didn't finish."
Sir Paul later claimed George Harrison refused to work on the song, saying the sound quality of Lennon's vocal was "rubbish".
"It didn't have a very good title, it needed a bit of reworking, but it had a beautiful verse and it had John singing it," he told Q Magazine.
"[But] George didn't like it. The Beatles being a democracy, we didn't do it."
There were also said to have been technical issues with the original recording, which featured a persistent "buzz" from the electricity circuits in Lennon's apartment.
In 2009, a new version of the demo, without the background noise, was released on a bootleg CD. Fans have speculated that this recording may not have been available in 1995, suggesting it was stolen from his apartment, along with other personal effects, after his death.
In the intervening years, Sir Paul has repeatedly talked about his desire to finish the song.
"That one's still lingering around," he told a BBC Four documentary on Jeff Lynne in 2012. "So I'm going to nick in with Jeff and do it. Finish it, one of these days."
'Ropey cassette'
It would seem that technology has now afforded the musician a chance to achieve that goal.
The turning point came with Peter Jackson's Get Back documentary, where dialogue editor Emile de la Rey trained computers to recognise the Beatles' voices and separate them from background noises, and even their own instruments, to create "clean" audio.
The same process allowed Sir Paul to "duet" with Lennon on his recent tour, and for new surround sound mixes of the Beatles' Revolver album to be created last year.
"He [Jackson] was able to extricate John's voice from a ropey little bit of cassette," Sir Paul told Radio 4's Martha Kearney.
"We had John's voice and a piano and he could separate them with AI. They tell the machine, 'That's the voice. This is a guitar. Lose the guitar'.
"So when we came to to make what will be the last Beatles' record, it was a demo that John had [and] we were able to take John's voice and get it pure through this AI.
"Then we can mix the record, as you would normally do. So it gives you some sort of leeway."
However, the musician admitted that other applications of AI gave him cause for concern.
"I'm not on the internet that much [but] people will say to me, 'Oh, yeah, there's a track where John's singing one of my songs', and it's just AI, you know?
"It's kind of scary but exciting, because it's the future. We'll just have to see where that leads."
The star was talking to Radio 4 ahead of the launch of a new book and accompanying photography exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.
Titled Eyes Of The Storm, the project features portraits taken by Sir Paul on his own camera, between December 1963 and February 1964, as the Beatles were catapulted to global fame.
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RE: The Beatles Are Back, Sort Of
@don-davis said in The Beatles Are Back, Sort Of:
@ssmith1226 If that's the best AI can do, we have nothing to worry about.
That’s what they said about Robert Fulton in the early 19th Century and the Wright Brothers in the early 20th Century.
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RE: You have heard of “Red Hot Music”, this is “Ice Cold Music”
“Across the Arctic, sculptors and musicians have worked together to create instruments carved out of ice.
Artists such as American ice sculptor Tim Linhart, and Icelandic drummer, Terje Isungset, have both created orchestras out of ice, with Isungset running his own annual ice music festival.
Collaborating with Greenpeace, Isungset and his orchestra performed outside on an ice floe – a sheet of floating ice – on the island of Spitsbergen in 2019 to raise awareness of how climate change is affecting our oceans.
Playing through temperatures of 10 degrees below Celsius under the midnight sun, they recorded this chilling, majestic work. Watch the most northerly ice concert ever, below.”
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You have heard of “Red Hot Music”, this is “Ice Cold Music”
Terje Isungset, the Norwegian Musician, is the Maynard Ferguson of the “Ice Horn”, a trumpet made of ice. He and his “Ice Quartet” play instruments structurally made of Ice. They create “Ice Cold Music”.
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RE: The Beatles Are Back, Sort Of
Here is an excerpt from an article about AI Voice Cloning and song generation. The link to the full article is below the excerpt.
What are AI Singing Voice Generators?
An AI singing voice generator is a software application or hardware device that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to generate and modify synthesized singing voices.It is designed to simulate the human process of singing, allowing users to create their own custom vocal performances. The generated voices can be used in various music production settings, such as live performance and recording studios.
AI-generated singing voices can also be incorporated into virtual duets, choruses, and songwriting collaborations. Some AI-based systems are able to learn a user's voice and replicate it accurately, resulting in personalized vocal performances with accurate intonation, natural phrasing, and dynamic expression.
With advances in deep learning technology, some AI-based programs even enable users to create real-time virtual performances that can interact with humans onstage or through audio-visual media.
How do AI Singing Generators Work?
AI singing voice generator technology uses deep learning and text-to-speech (TTS) software to generate realistic singing voices from text. It works by training a neural network on audio recordings of real singers.This process is known as “voice cloning” and it involves capturing the essence of a singer’s vocal range, pronunciation and style in order to produce the same quality of singing that a human would.
The AI then takes the text inputted by the user and converts it into a synthesized version that resembles the original singer's voice. With this technology, users can create their own unique singing voice which they can use for music production, karaoke videos or other applications.
Furthermore, AI singing voice generators are able to analyze an existing piece of vocal audio and automatically generate new versions with different styles or tones without changing the original content. Several companies have already released AI singing products that promise to revolutionize how musicians create vocals tracks for their songs.
Why Have Text-To-Singing Voice Generators Become So Popular?
AI singing voice generators are becoming increasingly popular due to their ability to accurately recreate a vocal performance. With the use of sophisticated algorithms, these tools can take a melody composed by a producer and generate realistic-sounding vocals that can match the original song. This technology has allowed producers to create high-quality vocal performances without having to hire singers or spend time finding samples and creating sample libraries.Additionally, AI singing voice generators offer users more control over their musical projects, as they can tweak parameters such as pitch, vibrato, and inflection to achieve the desired sound. This is especially useful for producers who are on a tight budget and need to create professional-sounding tracks quickly and efficiently.
AI also brings other advantages such as providing new creative possibilities by allowing one singer’s style and tone to be applied to multiple songs in different genres or languages. Additionally, it should also be noted that AI singing voice generators can save time by automatically filling in sections of a song or seamlessly transitioning between two parts of the same track that would have been too difficult for one singer to perform live. All of these factors combined have made AI singing voice generators an attractive option for producers who want quality vocals without having to pay expensive session fees or hire additional vocalists.
https://www.omarimc.com/best-ai-singing-voice-generator-software/