I Wouldn’t Want to Live Without It
As I dive deeper into production music, one of the things I'm hearing is that they really don't want AI, and I think it’s because of the ownership.
A lot of companies are claiming feel and the magic and all that stuff, but I think it's ownership. There are audio tags inside these songs, outside of our hearing, that travel with these things. So anyway, they are recognizable by feel, but also physically recognizable. Apparently, people who do placements have filters and stuff like that, where they can send these through. And they have to.
And the more I read, the more it seems like people are trying to game the system. It's interesting with this, because I don't know if they're just trying to make money, or if they want to be a composer and shortcut it.
Both are pretty despicable.
Although commercial music really can't be considered art, you're still using your artistic whatever. The same things I use to make music for music's sake are the same tools that I'd use to sit down and make art.
So to me, it's bizarre.
When I think about the people who want to be a composer but shortcut it, I do feel for them. Because, as we all know from reading this blog, no one puts out more music and is less popular than me.
Now, one of the things I might do is try to stop sharing so much. Because maybe I'm finishing before the piece is done or whatever. I don't know. I have 100 different reasons for that, and that's a different entry entirely.
But I couldn't imagine being here without all the growth I went through. The mental pain, and feeling dumb, and feeling smart, and to varying degrees every week of my music life. Still I think through these things. The battle rages on!
I was just on a bike ride, and one of the things I was thinking about is, could I live without music?
The answer is very easily, yes.
I don't want to. By 'very easily,' I mean I wouldn't die. So music is not oxygen or food or water. Or family. Or God. Or whatever. It just isn't. It's not shelter. It's not too hot, not too cold.
But it's something else entirely.
I guess it's along the same lines of, could you live without love? Would you want to live? I wouldn't want to live without love. I just don't think it's life.
I don't know about the music part, though.
Got to think on that some more, when I put it that way.