Andrew McCluskey
@andrewmcc
Creator / Contributor at musicto
Andrew McCluskey
andrewmccluskey.com
“the idea that we need to overcome failings of humanness by becoming objective, every thing created fairly, equally... It’s getting rid of passion, of all the things we’re told are primitive and it scares me.”
Terry Gilliam
Are we focusing on the wrong thing?
It strengthens my belief that there’s something to this idea of musicto – the music that Millenials and Gen Z grew up with is different to ours, but I bet the stories that surround those songs are kinda the same. Look back and you’ll see us trying to fit in, falling in love, changing behaviors for a crush or coming together over a shared lyric or... See more
Songs to Bond with Your Boss
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“The love that you withhold is the pain that you carry.” by Ralph Waldo Emerson.
354 / Design’s reckoning: who really pays?
[...] the bullshitter is an antirealist, treating “reality as inherently risky and under construction,” fraught with a greater degree of uncertainty. [...] Bullshitters engage in “deferred epistemic gratification” by throwing a variety of ideas and claims out there without regard to the weight of the evidence.
foxwizard • 💌 How to Be a Better Imposter
For these communities, hearing a generative model spit out a synthetic gospel track or an AI-generated country twang is not just an artistic affront, it can feel like outright blasphemy, proof that tech elites would rather manufacture culture than nurture it.
✘ Populists vs. Tech Titans: The Battle Over AI and the Future of Music
Cultures reveal differences through following different conventions, or taking different meanings and values from the same conventions.
What is Culture? Part Six: Defining cultural phenomena
lots of people make playlists - it is our culture that we make them together - not exclusively but it is the conventional approach within our culture
You should find and support a scene that resonates with you, whether it's local or virtual. In 1985, you'd play at local bars; in 2024, it might be through Discord. But the essence is the same: you want a community because collective attention is key.