The man responsible for my blog writing is named Marty Nemko a radio host who worked for a news station in the San Francisco area. As one of callers interested in finding a possible career I called up his show and he advised me look into writing a blog since journal writing or diary writing had been a hobby of mine for decades and I have been an occasional caller to the news talk show on the radio news shows. Hobbies tend to take people to very strange places in many strange ways. But note how some of these ancient old hobbies are changing pace in a very accelerating manner for instance my blog on chess has been drastically changed by the Internet where a human legendary chess champion is no longer the reigning player any more but instead a machine playing chess machine. My blog or this blog covers much more than chess but various aspects of the news as I have witnessed it and one of the aspects of the news is the music world. In my next sentence I will go right to the point. Can machines replace the human rock stars or the human music entertainer?
Having been raised and home grown in Oakland California I had become familiar with the sounds of the 70's where boom boxes ruled and the bigger the box the bigger the boom. But today I carry a small box the size of a lighter in my small vest pocket to play tunes that I have played on my own musical synthesizer with the tunes I have come to know and love the best. In this case the sound of a trumpet is my favorite musical sound although it isn't as popular as before. At first I didn't like it as it sounded too tinny and toy like just plain artificial. But now the sound has become reliable and dependable and is the most powerful selection on my synthesizer with the sound being projected as far as a block away on a tiny voice recorder this selected sound of the trumpet. The sound coming from this tiny box penetrates the air with an impact far greater than what any boom box can do. If the sound were turned up high in public the user of this device could be held liable maybe a block party would be more suitable. Some of us might remember the famed piano star Liberace. My prediction is that a team of dexterous piano operators just might likely outperform a human music talent or star just as we saw when a chess playing machine called Deep Blue outperformed a human grandmaster ranked number one at one time in a match the world looked on at in wonder. Take a look at some of these sophisticated synthesizers out on the market can they outperform some of the best human musicians? Some of the best vocalists are the ones who can instill emotion into their act but can an electronic piano keyboard or a synthesizer display emotion at the right precise time in a tune? By the way a very young fellow by the name of Magnus Carlsen is the reigning chess champion ranked number one and I favor him over any chess playing computer no matter how skilled and proficient the computer/machine may be. Magnus Carlsen learned through using computers and would one not think that computers will continue to teach us something worthwhile?
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