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0:00This is happening because of AI.
0:01Let me explain.
0:02So Angine de Poitrine are breaking the internet right now.
0:05And if you geeky about music,
0:06you've almost certainly seen this land in your feed.
0:08So I'm gonna explain what's going on here,
0:10why people find it interesting,
0:11and why it's happening now,
0:13coincidentally at almost exactly the same time that AI
0:16produced music has gone mainstream.
0:18Let's look at three things,
0:19the music, their style and AI.
0:21So the reason that music geeks are loving this
0:23is because they're breaking the rules of music
0:25in very clever ways. They're using weird time signatures,
0:28meaning that sometimes a bar has four beats,
0:30sometimes seven, sometimes 14.
0:31They're also using a microtonal scale.
0:34So instead of just the 12 notes that we know and love in western music,
0:37they're using twice as many notes
0:39and their guitars have twice as many frets.
0:41So now
0:41they're playing these new notes that are halfway between
0:44the ones that we hear all the time.
0:46And that's what makes it sound kind of new and unexpected.
0:48So they also create very complex arrangements by using a loop pedal,
0:52which allows just that one person to layer their playing
0:55as they progress through the song,
0:57which makes it sound like the whole band playing.
0:59And he's controlling that loop pedal with his feet and toes,
1:01which is just really impressive in itself.
1:04And they do it all really skillfully.
1:06So that's the music, but their appearance is Important
1:08too often gets described as being Dadaist.
1:10And if you don't know, Dadaism was an art movement about 100 years ago,
1:14which ultimately LED to surrealism.
1:15And it was all about incongruity,
1:17about things that didn't belong together,
1:18things that broke the rules of what the viewer expected.
1:21It was even the birth of the whole what is art debate.
1:24It's interesting that Dadaism back then
1:25was a direct response to the machinery of war
1:28and of modern life. And that's probably what's happening now.
1:31If you go back even further,
1:32look at the effect that photography had on art
1:34and how
1:35once that anyone could create images using this simple little machine,
1:39art change radically.
1:40Painters stopped trying to depict what was in front of them
1:43as perfectly as possible, figurative art because what's the point?
1:46And they got more creative with impressionism
1:48and ultimately that LED to Dadaism,
1:50Expressionism, cubism,
1:52because
1:52what is the point of trying to paint what's in front of you perfectly
1:55when you can just take a photo?
1:57And that freed artists to actually push them
1:59to do something more interesting with their paintbrush.
2:01Because right now in Google Gemini,
2:03as of this month,
2:04anyone can create fully produced music tracks with just a text prompt.
2:07Modern music is unbelievably formulaic
2:10and AI is trained on those formulas.
2:13So we've got an AI that's trained on that is pumping out more of that
2:17and that just forces us to walk away from it.
2:19And break those rules and find different territory.
2:22And that's what Angie and the avant garde have done really well.
2:25To be fair, if you spend any time going beyond mainstream music,
2:27artists have been breaking the rules for a very long time,
2:29of course. But what this shows in particular,
2:31go and look at the YouTube video.
2:33Go and look at the comments on this YouTube video that's gone viral
2:36and you will just witness how encouraged everybody is
2:40by the plight of humanity
2:43and human creativity in the face of AI. Slab.
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