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06 Aug 2026 00:23 +0000

I had an absolute delight chatting with H‑Music's Editor Andrea Calilhanna’s about music, the body, and computers on their podcast last week! @h-net-humanities.bsky.social Check it out: https://networks.h-net.org/music-data-how-we-hear-feel-and-compute-sound

28 May 2026 00:32 +0000

It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succor of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.

22 May 2026 13:56 +0000

"As anyone who has cooked chicken breast in a microwave or made music with a generative AI will attest: even if this technology is faster, convenient, and more complex, it is not necessarily better." <- pleased w myself for that lil phrase from the intro of my new music & AI book project #softlaunch

03 Mar 2026 02:28 +0000

Hey y'all— come get paid to study computer-assisted music analysis (partially with me!) this summer in NYC. Applications are here: institutes.ams-net.org, and the longer description is.... [in the comments]

10 Oct 2025 19:21 +0000

Writing about AI and creativity in 2025 sometimes feels like fiddling while Rome burns

06 Oct 2025 00:18 +0000

Anybody got a Sora invite they’d like to waste on me?

30 Aug 2025 21:09 +0000

Check it out— two chapters from The AI Music Problem are now Open Access. Download and read for free! https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.4324/9781003587415/ai-music-problem-christopher-white

18 Aug 2025 19:54 +0000

Last week to for vote for my panel "Can You Hear the Machine? The Disappearing Tells in AI Music" for South By Southwest 2026! Click the little heart in the link below to keep us in the running! https://participate.sxsw.com/flow/sxsw/sxsw26/community-voting-sxsw/page/community-voting/session/1753313791848001PgyS

08 Aug 2025 16:06 +0000

I can use your vote! I'm on a proposed panel for this year's South By Southwest @sxsw.com about music and AI w/ a dizzying lineup of co-panelists: @adamneely.bsky.social, @charlieharding.bsky.social (of @switchedonpop.bsky.social), and @Tristra Yeager (of @RockPaperScissors inc.) 1/2 w/ voting link:

04 Jun 2025 12:05 +0000

Heavy way to start a morning, @mikeduncan.bsky.social, with the fall of the Girondins… I mean fall of the Mons Cafe crowd

15 Mar 2025 00:45 +0000

New article out! It's a collaboration in the journal Music Perception where we show that metric emphasis influences what listens hear as tonic/stable in pop music loops: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/545183b3e4b0f4d5bea12a07/t/67d4c7bed81c3a5b06c7e1fd/1741998015727/BrynDomNickPaper.pdf

26 Feb 2025 00:22 +0000

This article feels like a clear example of techo panic that we'll all make fun of in 10 years. Note the use of #anecdata rather than any actual data in the reporting. #AI https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/15/technology/ai-chatgpt-boyfriend-companion.html?smid=bs-share

16 Feb 2025 01:11 +0000

I'm conflicted about this footnote I just wrote: a thread: I would only ever venture to place these kinds of thoughts in a footnote, but LLMs do provide a certain comfort for those of us working in esoteric text-based scholarly fields. ...

08 Feb 2025 19:28 +0000

Everyone who receives an email from @kevinroose.com this week is going to be wondering whether his #AI wrote it...

29 Jan 2025 22:32 +0000

Should @theorymeg.bsky.social and I create an early-music-themes #memecoin called #dufaynance? Yes or no or heck yah

25 Jan 2025 01:46 +0000

Our paper about how we perceive AI-generated music was one of the TOP DOWNLOADED MUSIC PAPERS on SSRN over the last 60 days (with a grand total of 33...) Get my totals up with a download of your own: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/Delivery.cfm/384d3ec6-6e3b-41c8-8a37-c3667c753f3b-MECA.pdf?abstractid=5087035&mirid=1

08 Jan 2025 12:17 +0000

Got a working paper on Music and #AI with a bunch of coauthors. Gives a lay of the land in industry and academia. And, because AI has the potential to change how we think about expression, art, and education, we argue humanistic thinkers need a seat at the policy table. https://zenodo.org/records/14537184

23 Dec 2024 02:18 +0000

Another problem with #music #GenAI: it's tough to actually get crisp, reliable datapoints out of audio. Here's a graphic showing what an #AI might "see" when it "listens" to Lizzo's Truth Hurts. OODLES of mistakes. #MusicScience #MusicTheory

23 Dec 2024 02:15 +0000

Re Musical #GenAI, musical datasets are MUCH smaller than those in other media. Here's an infographic showing when a human would need to start reading/listening/watching to consume the whole dataset. In a landscape of ice-age-length data, music lives in a world of American and Maoist revolutions

08 Dec 2024 23:59 +0000

The 1981 chipmunks Christmas special is among the most underrated holiday content out there.

04 Dec 2024 02:13 +0000

As far as I can tell, the Bill Murray Xmas special on Netflix just contracted a dozen talented folks, rented the Carlisle for three hours, turned on the cameras, and taped a bunch of one-take Christmas musical numbers. AND I LOVE IT. Strong recommend.

02 Dec 2024 16:56 +0000

“Ok hear me out— what if she blows out all the lightbulbs in Emerald City in her last belted sustain?” “But that doesn’t make any sense” “And what if there’s pulsing green lightning in the clouds behind her” To whoever said yes to that ridiculousness: thank you

26 Nov 2024 21:27 +0000

Reviewing an article with lots of content from #ChatGPT, and English seems to not be the authors' first language. I'm torn about how to think about this. Love the cultural accessibility AI allows, but lots of sentences aren't "by" the authors, and (worse) don't communicate their intended ideas

21 Nov 2024 18:08 +0000

Musical creativity both recombines inherited materials and adheres to set expectations. Here's a graphic I made: music boxes adhere to expectations but make nothing new, R. Scott's Electronium made new music but 100% randomly. #GenAI and #Humans are special bc they maximize both

17 Nov 2024 00:41 +0000

Just a friendly reminder you can find “the love is gone” in the “Extras” of muppet Christmas Carol. (Also great ex. of mixture)

16 Nov 2024 20:14 +0000

1) The ways keys are NOT transpositionally equivalent (e.g., how pieces in B major behave differently that in Bb) and how that changes over time (with @theorymeg.bsky.social) 2) Basically 1% of atonal 20th-c. music actually uses strict transposition, even tho we obsess over it in the classroom [contains quote post or other embedded content]

16 Nov 2024 19:04 +0000

Love seeing all these new people from the #musicNerd #musicTheory and #musicScience worlds on bluesky! Welcome friends!

16 Nov 2024 00:59 +0000

I had a great time at the University of Delaware discussing music, #AI, and education with the #musicEd students! I also worked with the composition students, showing them how to build a music-making GPT. Yay #Delaware!

15 Oct 2024 21:08 +0000

If you just want more #ChrisContent about music and the computational humanities, check out the most recent episode of the Café Technika podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/eps-07-christopher-white-of-umass-amherst/id1744451472?i=1000671663386