# Chilly Gonzales: Why I Regret Giving Birth to the Neoclassical Genre  ## Metadata - Author: [[Luke Turner]] - Full Title: Chilly Gonzales: Why I Regret Giving Birth to the Neoclassical Genre - Category: #articles - Summary: insert summary - My notes: - Summary: Twenty years on from the release of his first Solo Piano album, Gonzales writes for tQ on his regret that the music he helped to bring into existence now provides easy fodder for streaming algorithms, and piles of cash for a lazy music business. It’s usually a forest, or a mountainside, or a beach. Ideally, it’s an otherworldly volcanic terrain, maybe in Iceland. A piano sits conspicuously in the middle of this landscape, as a pianist with eyes closed exaggerates the effort required to present some familiar arpeggios on the white keys. This is Neoclassical music, a genre I may have birthed, and I hate myself for it.  There was no algorithm in 2004 when I released the first Solo Piano album. It felt... The post Chilly Gonzales: Why I Regret Giving Birth to the Neoclassical Genre appeared first on The Quietus. - URL: https://thequietus.com/opinion-and-essays/black-sky-thinking/gonzales-solo-piano-neoclassical-regret/ ## LLM Chats ## NotebookLM ## LLM Audio ## Highlights > In its attempts at aping the codes of high culture it masks the dominance of the algorithm itself. It erases all traces of a point of view, a simplification of music that will willingly invite Artificial Intelligence to take over its composition and production. If we don’t hear a real person behind this music, why should a human even be involved in making it? If this epidemic of low attention-span and facelessness continues, the more artists will willingly debase themselves, and the more they deserve to be replaced by robots. It’s already happening. ([View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01j7jeja0pafnhetvbqy6bkng3))