Increasing Novelty in 2024

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When I was a kid I liked to read science fiction. Arthur C. Clarke. A Space Odyssey. Rendezvous with Rama. Imaginings of future technology, space travel, video phones, and digital newspapers.

Something about 2024 sounds like retro sci-fi writers imagining way into the future. Only now we're here and it's more like a Philip K. Dick novel. The bureau chief of the TikTok office meets a woman dressed in black who reveals he's living in a simulation.

We're in for high novelty. Reality bending things. Weird shit happening. Cataclysmic forces, social, cultural and ecological change. A revolutionary, turbulent time. Cartoonish and strange.

Apparently UFOs or UAPs are the official story? We saw the X-Files and now the US is saying, 'We've been recording these things for years, how crazy is this shit? They're always hovering off the coast. Anyways we don't know what they are.'

Everything all at once.

We're here in the studio working on the UFO radio station. Imagining what can happen in this year. Broadcasting music, arts and ideas. Assembling a collective network. Starting a club. Publishing. Connecting communities from around the world. Collaborating with artists, writers and musicians. Designing internet spaces.

Sounds like fun.

UFO news is the best place to be in the loop. We have news in store for January and beyond.

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Ahmed Sirour - Lovely Day (AS tribute remix) [instrumental]

I created this original instrumental arrangement around the vocals from the iconic "Lovely Day" (which was written and sung by the legendary Bill Withers), as a tribute to one of my favorite artists/composers of all-time, who transitioned from this life on March 30th, 2020.

Ahmed Sirour — Lovely Day (AS tribute remix) [instrumental]

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AFTA 1 - Brooklyn Sunset

Created summer of 2008 in Brooklyn, New York. This track represents my first visit/longterm stay in NY. Having always dreamed of visiting the city where a lot of my favorite Hip Hop originated, it was a dream come true making beats while gazing out of 5th story window at golden hour with the skyline in the distance.

AFTA 1 — Brooklyn Sunset

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VÉRITÉ - none of you

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VÉRITÉ — none of you

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Mad Zach - A New Dawn Is Upon Us

From opposite sides of the globe, two artists from completely different worlds come together in harmony for a fantastic collaboration of epic proportions. ANTISPACE presents: Gevorg Dabaghyan and Mad Zach "A New Dawn Is Upon Us" Gevorg Dabaghyan is the world's premiere duduk player.

Mad Zach — A New Dawn Is Upon Us

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ryan whyman - retrospective

first improvisation of the year

ryan whyman — retrospective

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Readyweights, minting concepts

We thought to experiment with a new method for sharing an AI assisted artwork and minting the concepts underlying it. In identifying our original work within the latent potential of an AI model, we introduce the idea of the readyweight (a pun on a readymade. We will explain).

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Thoughts on Selling Generative Art

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Soulquest at Fest 23'

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Network Common Goods

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