House With A Chimey A Poem about growing stronger

House With A Chimey

A Poem about growing stronger

Eulogy Eulogy of my father

Eulogy

Eulogy of my father

On the limit of logic In answer to the question, how can there be evil in the world if God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good? and other religious logical trap questions.

On the limit of logic

In answer to the question, how can there be evil in the world if God is all powerful, all knowing, and all good? and other religious logical trap questions.

Answer to the Question: How do you square the fall of man and evolution? Answer to pretty typical question about relationship between theology and science.

Answer to the Question: How do you square the fall of man and evolution?

Answer to pretty typical question about relationship between theology and science.

Jimmy Kimmel’s Christianity Reflections on reclaiming lost turf

Jimmy Kimmel’s Christianity

Reflections on reclaiming lost turf

Guest Post – Song: You Left Me Musician Eppoxx Explains his song

Guest Post – Song: You Left Me

Musician Eppoxx Explains his song

The burning fire What gives you energy

The burning fire

What gives you energy

Song – Dust Codes Explanation of origin of the song Lyrics (Verse 1) I speak fluent in the cracks where the light leaks in, Where the silence hums louder than the choir of sin. Truth ain’t loud—it’s a shadow in retreat, Steppin’ careful on the echoes where the false gods meet. I been wrestlin' with ghosts in my half-formed thought, Buildin’ altars outta silence that the loud forgot.

Song – Dust Codes

Explanation of origin of the song Lyrics (Verse 1) I speak fluent in the cracks where the light leaks in, Where the silence hums louder than the choir of sin. Truth ain’t loud—it’s a shadow in retreat, Steppin’ careful on the echoes where the false gods meet. I been wrestlin'…

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Write about your most epic baking or cooking fail. In college I was a bit intense. I had fallen in love with the writing of Nietzsche- which in part glorifies the desire to overcome. So this resulted in many behaviors, such as not heating my apartment- which had the bonus of being a cost…

Well that feels like a fair critique

But isn’t the question of how to use them the question of how do you operationalize those beliefs- and potentially at this incredibly early stage- wrestle with those questions?

I’ve been playing recently with AI music generation - and that play has helped me expanding my thinking on music making

Song- Disjointed song explained

Song- Disjointed

song explained

Daily Prompt What would my life be without music? Weirdly on brand daily question! Like any great love it is hard to imagine my life without it. If it was suddenly jerked away- for example if I lost my hearing- I imagine I would be left with just the faint hint- although I also know I have such a store of music already in my head, that I wonder if I could continue on with the tapes in my head.

Daily Prompt

What would my life be without music? Weirdly on brand daily question! Like any great love it is hard to imagine my life without it. If it was suddenly jerked away- for example if I lost my hearing- I imagine I would be left with just the faint hint- although I also know I have such a…

Dialogue With A Skeptic Discussion with an AI Music Skeptic

Dialogue With A Skeptic

Discussion with an AI Music Skeptic

History of Outrage history of outrage at musical changes

History of Outrage

history of outrage at musical changes

Break Juice I have been playing with trying to get unsettled beats

#CarlsChallenge
#MusicChallenge
#MusicSky
September 15
Song that features a great beat or drum solo.

While in many ways just a simple syncopated beat- I do like the groove of this song I made:

on.soundcloud.com/1q5I7RBrUo2m...

This is the best I can say of AI slop- I actually hope it finally sinks attention seeking social media- in favor of closed circle social media (think group chat) and trusted media sources (think NY Times). Facebook is unusable, Google is increasingly unusable, …

International Dot Day Today is international dot day. The day is named after the book The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds. The book tells the story of a student who is afraid to start doing art because he can't draw - and the teacher gets him to just put a dot on a piece of paper. The teacher then frames that picture and the result is the student's exploration of the dot, different colors, sizes, negative space, ...

International Dot Day

Today is international dot day. The day is named after the book The Dot, by Peter H. Reynolds. The book tells the story of a student who is afraid to start doing art because he can't draw - and the teacher gets him to just put a dot on a piece of paper. The teacher then…

Craig Waterman Educator, former Trumpet player, playing with technological music production

@joseph-me.bsky.social check my stuff out: on.soundcloud.com/aMUr2qwLraPC...

Song – How You Don’t Know An explanation for the history of this song

Song – How You Don’t Know

An explanation for the history of this song

Creating AI Music A How To Guide - Seriously Okay, maybe I lied — it might not be that serious. But I have found my evolving play with these tools weirdly fascinating, and worth sharing. First, take a moment to acclimate to the madness. When I first discovered AI music tools, I was floored. Type in a few words and out pops a fully-formed song — like some musical vending machine that never jams.

Creating AI Music

A How To Guide - Seriously Okay, maybe I lied — it might not be that serious. But I have found my evolving play with these tools weirdly fascinating, and worth sharing. First, take a moment to acclimate to the madness. When I first discovered AI music tools, I was floored. Type…

The Role of the Personal Exploring the role of personal connection in music. Is it important to connect to the artists?

The Role of the Personal

Exploring the role of personal connection in music. Is it important to connect to the artists?

What AI chatbots are actually doing under the hood How AI chatbots like ChatGPT work under the hood -- the post I wish I’d found before starting 'Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)'.

Actually a much better place to start:

www.gilesthomas.com/2025/08/what...

One of the things that I find most fascinating about these LLM is actually how they are just large matrix algebra equations.

A good explanation of the math below.

While not for the faint of heart- a good explanation of the math.

I think when we are talking about non-relationship music (jingles, soundtracks). I do think these will go much more AI. But people want relationship. People love Green Day, and not 100s of bands that sound exactly like Green Day.

Art or Craft? Reflections on the role of craft, and my history with craft and musical performance.

And more seriously - if you are open to having your beliefs challenged: wp.me/pgMegr-5q

sound argument.

I think what this forgets is that much of music's power is not the literal sounds - but relationship and meaning. The birth of high quality sound recording did not kill live music. The birth of AI will not kill creativity and the need for human expression.

And why do you fear this? If you like it - don't you like it?