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@J-Jericho said in Trumpet Board Remote Performance:

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I see you've been chugging Absinthe again, Steve.

Sorry, I ran out of Slivovitz.

@J-Jericho

@Tobylou8 said in Anyone like fishing? (when taking a break from Trumpet, that is...):

I do want partial credit for "knowing" that that was a Shimano lure!!

1.75/3 for Trumpetfish and Shimano

An interesting article in the NY Post:

Most companies will employ digital humans in next decade, researchers say

https://www.news.com.au/technology/innovation/digital-humans-to-be-employed-within-a-decade/news-story/b7815313404d8ac5e97a5f79bc55bb74

Here is a link to a “Virtual Holiday Concert” that I played in, video recorded, and video edited. We played on an outdoor Band Stand in Dennis, Massachusetts (Cape Cod) in a rehearsal, socially distanced configuration. There were no announcements publicizing our production and no audience, other than those who stopped by and watched us for a few minutes on their way to somewhere else. The musicians are part of the “Sound Dunes Swing Ensemble” of Cape Cod. The leader is Jim Stamboni of Dennis, Massachusetts, a fellow Trumpet Player. We are not professionals, but we enjoy playing. Weather conditions in the three recorded sessions were not perfect by any means. There is plenty of wind, traffic noise, and low temperatures. The recording devices consisted of two iPhones and one IPad. The recording was produced for the benefit of, and hopefully enjoyment by, our communities and beyond.

@neal085 said in Personality and Taste in Classical Music:

“which is 50 shades of laughable.”

It appears that you are very analytical and decisive. Perhaps you should run for political office, or the presidency of a condo board or home owners association.

Double reed trivia:

Q. What is a flaming oboe good for?

A. Lighting a bassoon on fire

Q. Why is a bassoon better than an oboe?

A. It burns longer

@administrator said in Bots are getting scary:

I’m not going to bother reading an article about “Digital Humans.”

Is that because they are already here, or you don’t think that is likely. Deep Fake technology is here and quite sophisticated. Imagine when it is melded with a real time conversational form of AI. Imagine the technology ten years in the future.
Here are some examples of “Digital Humans”, the first from six months ago, the second from nine months ago, and the third from three years ago, that as every moment passes are getting more and more obsolete. Five, ten, or twenty years from now I would predict that the “Digital Humans” will independently be able to interact in video, holographic, and solid form, difficult at best to differentiate from the “real thing”.

Here is a concert band virtual performance I put together from the New Horizons Band of Cape Cod. I chose this piece because the tempo does not change, the key does not change, and the music is not complicated. I used GarageBand for audio editing and iMovie for the video editing and production. The video (sound and picture) was recorded on the individual performers cell phone, many on the lower resolution “selfie side” of the phone.

@grune

The horrors of Gallipoli and its aftermath were vividly portrayed in the composition and outstanding performance. Although the composition is by a contemporary Scottish Composer and Lyricist, Eric Bogle, this the first “protest song”I heard concerning WW I. It’s effectiveness caused me to research why Australians were at war with Turkey.
In 1915, when this military campaign started, “ANZAC” troops were part of the British Empire. One out of six participating Australian and New Zealand Army Corp Troops were killed in Winston Churchill’s losing campaign many thousands of miles from their homes, in Turkey. As a result, the independence of Australia and New Zealand from the British Empire was solidified. Also ANZAC Day was born. On the other side, the Ottoman Empire eventually transitioned to the Independent Republic or Turkey founded by Ataturk and others who were among the victorious Turkish Military Leaders. Ataturk was also known for his role in the Armenian Genocide by the Turks.
It would be interesting to hear what our Australian members think of the song and performance, as well as their perspective on the history.
For additional insight, the following video is helpful, especially starting at 5:30.

Great advertising campaign

@j-jericho
ChatGPT Defames Professor With Fake Sexual Assault Allegations https://www.theepochtimes.com/chatgpt-defames-professor-with-fake-sexual-assault-allegations_5183248.html?utm_campaign=socialshare_email

The two person band version of Bolero, posted above, a month ago, was in preparation for a larger project I put together for the “New Horizons Band of Cape Cod”, which I am a member of. It served as a feasibility study as well as a source of individual instrumental click tracks for the below linked project. The New Horizons Band project used the same band arrangement. It was open to any band member, as well as local high school and middle school students by invitation of the Band Director. The end result was complicated and had a lot of moving parts. The lead up story was modified. The video is 11 minutes long and continues well beyond where you see “The End” on the screen to give a more conventional “encore” performance. It is best viewed on a tablet or computer screen and listened to with decent speakers, headphones, or earbuds. The individual parts were recorded on cell phones.

@dale-proctor said in [Trumpet playing Christmas marathon is over!]

So, what have all of you been playing/rehearsing for the holidays?

From Dec 2-15, nine performances and multiple rehearsals. The longest performance was 2 hours, the shortest performance was 1 hr, and the rest were 90 minutes. Three were Christmas Big Band performances and six were Brass Choir Performances.

In order to keep this “semi-relevant” I should point out that featured subject of this video, Ramiro Gonzalez-Ganzales, AKA Pedro Gonzalez-Gonzalez, according to his Wikipedia Biography, was the son of a trumpet player. Now that we got that out of the way, he became a movie, television, and a cartoon voiceover actor after he was discovered by John Wayne when he appeared as a contestant on Groucho Marx’s show, “You Bet Your Life”. His career opened up acting careers and opportunities for many other actors of Mexican origin...
Here is the appearance that launched his career.

@administrator

@administrator said in Bots are getting scary:

@ssmith1226 said in Bots are getting scary:

A recent headline:
“AI bot tweets out plan to ‘eliminate’ humanity in order to save Earth”
Link:
https://bgr.com/science/ai-bot-tweets-plan-to-eliminate-humanity-in-order-to-save-earth/

It is true that AI currently can not program it self. Programming is directed by humans, but that also is a problem.

This stuff really humors me. Despite all the popular culture (i.e. Terminator, iRobot, etc), there really is no way that computers can "take over the world." Not beyond what we allow them, at least.

Thus my point, “ Programming is directed by humans, but that also is a problem.”

The latest iteration of the buzzit:

Peace on Earth and Good Will To Men

Youtube Video

@J-Jericho
When I listened to “Quiet Village” (1956), it immediately reminded me of Pink Floyd’s “Granchester Meadows” on the 1969 Ummagumma Album, utilizing the sounds of nature to set the scene of the music.

An interesting article today on AI and ChatGPt- “Europe Sounds The Alarm On ChatGPT”
An excerpt:
“…. that ChatGPT, just one of thousands of AI platforms currently in use, can assist criminals with phishing, malware creation and even terrorist acts.
If a potential criminal knows nothing about a particular crime area, ChatGPT can speed up the research process significantly by offering key information that can then be further explored in subsequent steps,” the Europol report stated. “As such, ChatGPT can be used to learn about a vast number of potential crime areas with no prior knowledge, ranging from how to break into a home to terrorism, cybercrime and child sexual abuse.”

The full article link is here:
https://news.yahoo.com/europe-sounds-the-alarm-on-chatgpt-090013543.html