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<\/p>\nIn college I got a degree in journalism, and even before college I was a big 1st amendment supporter. The reason it is the first amendment was to make sure that we have a set of checks and balances that keep our government in check. Today Chelsea Manning gave a keynote event at Moogfest. Unlike most conferences where a Keynote is a speech, here it is a conversation.<\/p>\n
Sitting on the stage at the Carolina Theater Chelsea Manning talked about how music empowered her and continues to help in dealing with life as a trans individual.<\/p>\n
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After the presentation, I went and checked out Michael Stipe’s second video installation, Thibault Dance. Last year Michael debuted “Jeremy Dance” and this was the part of the same series.<\/p>\n
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After looking at the installation, I went to hear a conversation with Michael Stipe describing the installation along with an upcoming book called “Volume 1”. The cool part of the Dance installations, is how he made them. He would play a 120BPM song, and let the dancer dance. After which he would actually compose a score to go with it. So what you are seeing is a Dance that is interpreted in music, instead of the other way around. The book was cool – a bunch of pictures taken over the years. Seeing some of the behind the scenes of Athens was cool.<\/p>\n
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But the fun part of the http:\/\/g.co\/magenta\/demos day was the session by Cathy and Adam from google going thru the Magenta projects on using MI for creating music.<\/p>\n
You can check out a bunch demos over here: Demos at g.co\/magenta\/demos<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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