21. tenderly
By hhuwoa on May 26, 2024 8:54 pm
21. tenderly
the evening breeze caressed the trees...
wrapping up may with a meditative ambient track. this is the third and hopefully final version of this track i started earlier this year. i'd put it away for awhile and then come back, etc.
the whole thing is made from a single building block, a short chunk of audio. i won't say what i've done to it but it is a multi stage process (mixture of aleatoric and controlled processes) and there are many layers interacting with each other.
i have an album's worth of similar tracks made over the past few years, and have vaguely intended to release them this year under my official name, but that hasn't happened yet. so in the meantime you can have this one 
hhuwoa on soundcloud - 21. tenderly
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a friend asked me if the image i used for this track is a.i. generated, because it has that sort of fantastical lighting you see in a lot of a.i. generated images. the answer is no, it is a photo taken with my phone from a real live natural landscape. and more importantly: no, i do not use a.i. generated images whatsoever and it is my personal opinion that a.i. "art" is not art, and that a.i. has no place in the world of art. i would rather see the clumsiest, most amateur human artwork than an a.i. generated image. humans make art; art is one of the things that make us human. by designing a.i. to make our art for us we are going in the wrong direction. i will never use a.i. generated images in any of my material, not only as a matter of principle but also because i find it visually offensive. for the artwork that accompanies my tracks, i use any of the following: my own digital art made with very simple tools, drawings, modified screenshots of corrupted video files, or photos.
because we are now at the stage where a viewer might not be able to distinguish between human-made art and a.i. generated imagery, i felt it was necessary to make this statement, as it is something i feel very strongly about.
