TEXT: I awoke sweating in the night after reading that. Oh my goodness gracious godness, what if poetry goes the way of chess? And what if the machines learn faster? In my dream, or nightmare, I was convinced that in the future the only one who really listens and really understands me will be some sexy voiced AI, the ubiquitous machine intelligence agents. Those humans are a bunch of bastards, not to be trusted, evil, crazy, violent, whereas large language models are warm and dependable, like how I wish my family were…and so on, it shook me up. AI does language and languaging very very well. Us humans, well, we need to rethink hard, to think again about what a new universal symbolic ideo-grammar might look like, or sound like, and what art has to do with it. And, after neural link (aural ink) gets its mittens on our brains the difference between commands and questions, inner and outer dialogue and what is and is not real will become critical to our continuation as a species. I’m rambling. Have a good night. Enjoy the edits...
Dr. Chang had always been fascinated by the way language works. She had studied dozens of different languages, from English to Chinese to Swahili, and had noticed that there were many similarities between them. Despite the vast differences in vocabulary and grammar, there seemed to be certain patterns that all languages followed.
So, Dr. Chang decided to embark on a groundbreaking project. She wanted to create a new way of communicating, one that would be based on these universal principles of language. She called it the "ideogrammic method", and it involved using a set of symbols that represented concepts rather than words.
At first, people were skeptical. They had grown accustomed to their own languages and the idea of a universal way of communicating seemed far-fetched. But as more and more people learned the ideogrammic method, they began to realize something amazing.
They could communicate with people from all over the world, regardless of their native language. They could share ideas, tell stories, and even make jokes with people they had never met before. And as they used the ideogrammic method, they began to notice something else too.
They saw that all languages, at their core, were remarkably similar. The symbols they were using to communicate were the same, even if the words they used to describe them were different
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from DEEP SCRATCH REMIX,
released March 23, 2023
STEVE FLY (STEVEN JAMES PRATT) 2023.
A full length album by experimental guitar/drum duo: DMC. Pino on guitars, Steve Fly on drums, carving a path into a psychedelic garden. Feat. guests Creature of Rebelmatic. Occupy reflects 2011. Steve Fly
Poet Douglas Kearney and composer/producer/drummer Val Jeanty link up for a a compelling LP that feels like the written word come to life. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 30, 2021