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Aeon runs an argument backward today: humans didn’t invent art, art invented us — ecstatic truth came first, the truth of accountants much later (Aeon). Set that next to a researcher who scanned children’s brains while they made up tunes at the piano and found improvisation running on a different system entirely than playing (The Conversation). Creativity isn’t a refinement of thought, goes one version of this.
Which makes the rest of the day’s cluster look less like coincidence. Violinists are being told to train like athletes (The Strad). A new company exists for dancers past 40, on the premise that the body is the one instrument you can’t re-string (Pointe). The Aurora Orchestra is performing Mahler’s First from memory, with choreography and a play attached (The Guardian). And competitive dance has signed its first media rights deal with ESPN (The Hollywood Reporter).
Meanwhile the major labels are asking chart companies to disqualify AI tracks unless a human substantially made them (Hollywood Reporter).
On the oops-I-forgot beat: A man in Kiama, Australia returned a library book 150 years overdue, found bricked into a fireplace (AP). No fine assessed.
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