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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · 2d

What’s stopping you from drawing those enormous hogs? Why is AI necessary for dongs?

Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · 2d

Earnest questions for visual AI artists!

1. What about AI lets you do different things from other digital art?

2. Do you feel like you have a unique “voice” with your AI art?

3. What AI visual artists inspire you? What about their work makes you inspired?

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · 4d

Doing some duo gigs with Lau Noah next month, come hang!

www.songkick.com/artists/1038...

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · 7d

Haha, not so literally, but the idea of music connecting to you to history and community resonated with me.

We end every set with a jazz fusion cover for that reason

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · 7d

Just saw sinners.

That movie’s pretty good, huh?

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Darcy James Argue @darcyjamesargue.com · 21d

Fare thee well, Jim McNeely.

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Ethan Iverson @ethaniversonpiano.bsky.social · 21d

sadly expected news iverson.substack.com/p/jim-mcneely

Jim McNeely

(and the Don Ellis/Mel Lewis story)

iverson.substack.com

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Sep 10

new tune with Lau Noah called “Bones” 🏜️

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Aug 26

musician pronouncing it sol-er

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Aug 20

sad

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Aug 20

That guy sucks, but the sad thing is that 10 years ago, his band was putting out great blog posts on indie touring and booking as a jazz band in markets that don’t do jazz (deep south, etc)

Inspiring stuff, abandoned the second he discovered ragebait dopamine addiction

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Aug 19

On Instagram, there is a NYC jazz bassist who is very aggressively promoting his “BassGPT” LLM app.

I admit, I didn’t see the jazz pdf-seller to AI grifter pipeline coming, but in retrospect, it was inevitable.

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jul 28

I just can’t imagine people in early hip hop or jazz or EDM or whatever caring AT ALL. The main goal of nascent musical movements was to make the coolest shit, and nothing but the coolest shit.

That certainly is not the goal or the result of GenAI.

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jul 28

I don’t really care what they’re called. I’m just fascinated that the result of a year of this tech being out there is a community deeply anxious about the value of their work.

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jul 28

I find it all just so sad, really.

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jul 28

The sheer number of “I’m a real musician, I swear!” posts on the r/Suno subreddit is pretty sad, honestly.

Other music-related subreddits are just people sharing tips on how to make dope beats, but the main effect of making AI music seems to be deep existential anxiety of the value of your work.

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jul 22

if you like nerds in pajamas playing electro fusion I have just the video clip for you

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jul 22

The band is counting in/playing to click. The beat is being produced in a DAW. “One” is practice, not just analysis.

This kind of article is like 20 steps removed from anybody actually making music.

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jul 5

fuck it, sungazer is a blues band now

Brocade @brocade.bsky.social · Jul 1

Sungazer

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jun 14

I peaked with that one tbh

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · Jun 7

heretics

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · Jun 5

sure are a whole lot of suspect motherfuckers in my mentions pretending there are drum time signatures other than 4/4

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · May 31

I am very smart, and like many chord sequences.

-Dave Weigel

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · May 23

I have an EP coming out June 13th with Lau Noah - presave it here!

distrokid.com/hyperfollow/...

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · May 13

Canada tour vlog up now on YouTube/nebula

Watch me learn swear words in Québécois

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Adam Neely @adamneely.bsky.social · May 12

I will be doing some very fun things this summer including

1. opening for snarky puppy
2. touring east asia
3. doing 3 nights at the blue note

Come hang!

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