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Beatles "Blackbird" reharmonization to E minor YouTube video by Adrian Holovaty

You might get a kick out of my Blackbird reharmonization with Paul's original vocal: www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAb9...

Paul McCartney - Days We Left Behind (Lyric Video) YouTube video by PaulMcCartneyVEVO

New Paul McCartney song is out, with a full album being released May 29.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n1I...

This one gives me similar vibes to the last Beatles single, Now And Then. Nostalgic, melancoly and not particularly musically interesting. I'm glad Paul's still making music, though.

The Jetsons lied to us

I've started a new project: notationref, a taxonomy of music notation concepts for developers:

w3c-cg.github.io/music-notati...

Info on motivation, etc., is in the readme:

github.com/w3c-cg/music...

"Tomorrow Never Knows" is definitely a contender.

@anildash.com Just in case you didn't see this (up for auction along with a few other Prince things): www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-6...

Are you coming through Amsterdam during your travels?

Think I got a source for you on that. Ted Chiang: "most fears about A.I. are best understood as fears about capitalism." kottke.org/21/04/ted-ch...

Soundslice year in review, 2025 | Soundslice product updates It’s been a productive year here at Soundslice. Here are the big improvements we’ve made in 2025.

I wrote up the highlights of all the stuff we built and improved at Soundslice this year:

Interesting, where can I learn more about this notation software?

SUNO r/SunoAl Jo 6h ago Join ThrowRA1234567788777 Sick of having to come up with prompts Discussion ... Hey y'all, looking for some tips here. I like what I've made so far with Suno but now I'm kind of hitting a wall with ideas for prompts. Why doesn't Suno also have a feature to write prompts for you? Like just hit a button the says "new prompt" and then hit make song when it comes up with something that sounds interesting! Thoughts?

not beating the “AI art is lazy” allegations

Four articulated buses blocking each other in a roundabout making them stuck.

So this happened in Oslo yesterday. Four articulated buses got stuck in a roundabout.

[Somebody had to ask] Do you think it's worse than Revolution 9?

I agree it's the worst officially released non-Revolution-9 Beatles song.

So cool to see this in Soundslice format! Great work.

Just a heads up, you can remove that 0:05 "audio intro" bit at the start by using the Soundslice crop feature in the syncpoint editor.

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I was there for opening night as well! Super interesting to read your take — thanks for posting it. I agree the unfinishedness of it was really surprising and off-putting. Everybody in attendance would have had a much better time had it started without delay, and I feel like the actors sensed that.

In case you're not hip to it: check out the Harry Nilsson version as well. Just as good as the original (which I don't say lightly!).

How do you split the three diamonds into individual diamonds...?

I’ve been on a few podcasts in the last month. Four interviews, four separate topics: ChatGPT hallucination, Django's 20th birthday, Soundslice and my latest EP.

holovaty.com/writing/podc...

Wow, thank you reminding me of this Passamaquoddy guy. I literally haven't thought about him for 30+ years. Gotta watch the film again and see whether it holds up.

Review: Adrian Holovaty’s ‘Layer Cake’ Is an Irresistibly Joyful Acoustic Confection Five-song EP blends manouche rhythms and fingerstyle flourishes into intricate, buoyant instrumentals.

Acoustic Guitar Magazine reviewed my Layer Cake EP:

acousticguitar.com/review-adria...

I was there too! That was hilarious. I remember he'd printed the lyrics from some random guitar tabs site.

Audio clips or it didn't happen

ChatGPT Hallucinated a Feature, Forcing Human Developers to Add It Welcome to the era of ‘gaslight driven development.’ Soundslice added a feature the chatbot thought it existed after engineers kept finding screenshots from the LLM in its error logs.

welcome to development by gaslight. ChatGPT hallucinates a feature, driving users to a application for something that doesn't exist. What's a dev to do? They add the feature the AI invented

This Is News YouTube video by Neural Viz

For me it's the "This is News" series by Neural Viz. So well done! www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHb-...

Let's Go To Heaven In My Car: A Tribute To Brian Wilson [AI] YouTube video by Dae Lims

This short tribute to Brian Wilson's life is so well done. A rare example of tasteful/artful AI video generation.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoo...

Nope, that's not true. I don't recall a single person ever requesting ASCII tab support since I founded Soundslice in 2012. Otherwise we likely would have added it. In fact we're very responsive to users and sometimes even implement feature requests the same day they're requested.

Good news: ChatGPT is pointing a lot of people toward Soundslice.

Bad news: It's telling people Soundslice has a feature that doesn't actually exist.

Here's my story about how we added a feature purely because ChatGPT was telling people it existed.

If it were me, I'd get some locally made tortilla chips: El Ranchero (www.rancherofood.com/products/). Available at many grocery stores. Not sure whether you can get authentic tortilla chips in VA, but here in Amsterdam it's a chip desert.