Tag: Uncanny Valley
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The Problem with NFTs
It’s the video version of a long read at 2 hours but this highly researched myth and hype-busing video by Dan Olsen on cryptocurrency and NFTs is well worth watching. It starts with the last recession – the 2008 sub prime scandal – and the anarcho-capitalist fall out that begat cryptobros and all that. I…
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Voice Cloning AI and OpenAI Jukebox
It seems like those spooky AI images and sharpening now we are on the brink of AI voice and music generation – i.e. feeding in acapellas or instrumentals and the neural network generates new versions – with all the legal headaches that suggest. Is it owned by the computer or the original source artist? What…
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Exightly
Occasionally you’ll come across a mashup artist who is very good, known in their sphere but weirdly not big elsewhere, and should be much bigger. Exightly is not a complete stranger to Radio Clash – featuring on the Xmas podcast two years ago #296 with the mashup embedded here – an ambitious mashup of Queen…
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New Everything Everything
Everyone’s talking about the ‘new normal’ and tbh it’s usually like the old normal but less good. But one of the few good things in lockdown is an explosion of new music being released, such as this song by Everything Everything ‘In Birdsong’. (via Guy Garvey on 6Music) Another good creative by-product of COVID-19 is…
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Little Marcy & Smokey bear
Long time listeners of Radio Clash will know the likes of Lil Markie and Little Marcy – scary evangelical Christian adults doing creepy child voices doling out Biblical messages for kids. I’ve played songs from both of these ‘singing puppets’ (well strictly Lil Markie was never a puppet) on the podcast in the past, because…
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Radio Moscow Nights and Time Zones
I know Radio Moscow not so much from my shortwave exploits (although a little, I was a World Wide Catholic Radio kind of girl…so much death, gloom and hypocrisy translated in stilted language, so little time!) but more from Time Zones by Negativland. But a friend posted about Moscow Nights by Vladimir Troshin, which I…