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by ericmcer 189 days ago
We lost that like 100 years ago. Sitting and watching someone perform music in an intimate setting rarely happens anymore.

If you listen to an album by your favorite band, it is highly unlikely that your feelings/emotions and interpretations correlate with what they felt. Feeling a connection to a song is just you interpreting it through the lens of your own experience, the singer isn't connecting with listeners on some spiritual level of shared experience.

I am not an AI art fan, it grosses me out, but if we are talking purely about art as a means to convey emotions around shared experiences, then the amalgamation is probably closer to your reality than a famous musicians. You could just as easily impose your feelings around a breakup or death on an AI generated classical piano song, or a picture of a tree, or whatever.

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> We lost that like 100 years ago. Sitting and watching someone perform music in an intimate setting rarely happens anymore

What? There's still live music events in quiet clubs where indie artists perform