Lee Barry

Can AI music be a tear-jerker? Maybe...https://app.box.com/s/tqrepybid81kydgrh6cqk7v7u8wuqxz2

Some of the preliminary Curio arrangements in one video.https://youtu.be/S1A8WFOhlP4

Something AI might never have: 'signature'--as in 'signature style'. Anything generated by AI is essentially 'de-signed'. If AI had the capability for 'handwriting' could it write its signature without front-loading it with data? #ai

If they can change these TTS voices, these would be great. Generated from my writings from 1998 https://barrystudio.blogspot.com/2026/03/some-of-first-week-of-march-over-28.html

Algorithms kill creativity...even AI knows it. https://share.google/aimode/wmepKhSZeQyCnA0gn Don't capitulate

The coolest thing about jazz is that you don't have to play anything the same twice. You just make the map and see different things along the way.

Kurt Schwitters’ 1947 collage, "EN MORN" These are the things we are fighting for, reflects his postwar philosophy of finding beauty, hope, and meaning in discarded, everyday scraps The piece is an example of his "Merz" philosophy, which sought to create new art from the fragments of a broken world after World War I and II. #art

I don't promote AI music other than to post what I've generated. All of them are based on my lyrics, so my stake is 50%. It remains to be seen how the other 50% is handled. I also think copyrighting or trademarking "seeds" might be an option. In this case lyrics are seeds because it's what drives the algorithms. I've never used Suno.

The prevailing idea is that you can use preexisting art as if it were in the public domain, so that’s why people might assert that it’s theirs. With AI, it is almost impossible to parse who owns what,. In music, I will always indicate that it is AI-generated and will not commercially release it. I always wonder who sang or played on them. But is it even possible to determine it? Everything is fungible at this point. More: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/discuss-ai-generated-content-a-bYajNOyfTxK8bAqb7J_D9A#0 #aimusic

In creativity, if you diversify the things that you do you can replace certain mediums that you can no longer do. Writing is something that you always can do, and if you can dictate then you can always express your thoughts. As people get older and they can’t perform as well on musical instruments, it’s something that they might miss, but it can always be replaced with another medium. #creativity

Art can't co-exist with machines for long. Having used AI to generate music for over a year now, I realized the options available has a short shelf life, compares to the infinite options available with traditional creative processes. #creativity

February Afternoon Shadows #photography

If you're going to run, run TO something, not away. #photography

Pilot short (mini film) for new album "Curios". Each will have an extended version. https://youtube.com/shorts/ZeMqynFWaGo

When you go to work on something creative, work on what's working. Not easy to determine....#creativity

Music LLMs for your research pleasure https://barrystudio.blogspot.com/2026/02/music-llms.html

Fretless Sunrise #photography

On Music (New Entries), covering the advent of AI. https://barrystudio.blogspot.com/2026/02/on-music-new-entries.html

Like after 9/11, you're always thinking about what art to make--uplifting and saccharine or heavy and brooding...perhaps a little bit of both, maybe in the same piece. #creativity

AI music as "Dismaland"? https://barrystudio.blogspot.com/2026/02/ai-music-as-bemusent-park.html #ai

Describes AI music (yet I still use it!): “You can strap together a few nice-sounding samples, and they’re all loops, so the thing will run forever, and in half an hour or so you have something that really sounds like music. And that’s very dangerous. The thing has a sheen - it sounds professional; it sounds authentic - but actually you haven’t really got anything yet.” But it takes five minutes and you have a produced song, but it still isn’t really a song in the sense that it can be reproduced live.

Excerpt Library (Music I): “Discuss generative music”

https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/63c9c83f-4d77-49dd-8146-d28036f688db

Curio No. 68--an homage to Hugh Ferriss "Gotham" look
https://barrystudio.blogspot.com/2026/02/curio-no-68-gotham.html

Conceptual #art for current times

Prison of Identity, 8x10 inches, mixed media (2008). Use of a photograph of a rusted bolt in a concrete wall as a metaphor for stigmata or crucifixion. https://barryartschicago.blogspot.com/2026/01/prison-of-identity-2008.html #art

It is remarkable how much good music came out of bands where all the players contributed to the songs in real-time in the studio, and ultimately became embedded in pop music history. Sometimes a group of mediocre writers can create a series of individual parts that ride on serendipity in the studio. Even for the autocratic composer and/or conductor who controls every part of the music, they still have to surrender to the moment, and design for the possibility of randomness arising from the individual human elements.

Put in a good word https://barrystudio.blogspot.com/2026/01/put-in-good-word.html