![]() ![]() 4 ‘Cutting tape’ became an anachronistic saying - a nod to days gone by. No more pounding out copy on the typewriter - tap, tap, tap, DING! slide! Gosh, that’s satisfying. It was a big learning curve and yes, a loss, when the world switched from analog to digital. Isn’t that what is Art is about? What it is for?Ĭutting reel to reel tape / Source: TCM Mastering I can reach across time and space and connect to this man’s heart for a moment. I can see the intensity of emotion laid bare on canvas. ![]() ![]() I like Jackson Pollock not because I find his work particularly beautiful (though there is a raw beauty there) but because I can see the human hand behind the paint. I don’t care how “beautiful” an AI painting is - the fact that a machine “made” it (in a sort of piecemeal way, robbing real artists of their work) makes it dull and uninteresting to me. In fact, though many writers and artists are (rightfully) alarmed at the rate machines are churning out written copy, digitally rendered paintings, and catchy pop songs, I think most of us can agree it’s all pretty bad. I should say - I don’t think AI will replace human creativity or human imagination. It seems almost cliche now to start talking about AI and concerns that it’s going to make us obsolete. Or, much more likely, it simply would have meant I no longer had a job.Ĭheck out this menu of creepy features - no eye contact, no problem! Maybe that would have left me with more time to take long walks through the cobbled streets of Georgetown. It sure would have been faster to have an AI program transcribe the entire interview. It was tedious work and only the sort of work a graduate student wanting a little extra money and a nice note on their resume would take on. These seemed very much a part of the interview to me.īut let’s not romanticize it. I remember the care I’d take to note the long pauses, the many silences. I think of those long hours in the office, headphones on, listening to interviews from the field, primarily with survivors of genocide and violence in Africa. My mind flashes back to graduate school when I worked part-time as a transcriber for an International development NGO. You just upload any audio clip or interview or video footage and it will transcribe the entire thing within a minute or two. It’s a clean interface and relatively intuitive. (I can spot the distinctive loops in the waveform that make a P or an “um” really quickly now).Ī typical scene at home, cutting and mixing audio on Auditionīut as soon as I download Descript, I realize much of this work, much of what I have been paid to do in the past, is no longer necessary. And I’ve gotten used to the sometimes arduous process of finding “p” sounds that pop too much, of editing out extraneous “ums” and blending breaths so they sound natural. I know the little shortcuts on the keyboard to normalize vocals, the right decibel setting for music intros, etc. Over the near decade now that I’ve been editing and producing audio, I have gotten to know this program. I’m using a pretty advanced computer program called Adobe Auditon. And it’s not as if I’m cutting audio in the Stone Age. ![]() I don’t like learning new programs - I’m not particularly tech savvy, and besides, I like the way I do things. As I reenter the professional audio world in a bit more focused capacity, it’s quickly become clear I need to download this program. It’s all the rage, apparently, but because I’ve been buried in babies for the past three years, I’m only just discovering it. I just downloaded a new audio editing software called Descript. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |