Can I actually make a blanket claim about African-Americans?

Meek references a loss of childhood.

This is a direct quote from the song. For the purposes of capturing Meek's intended message with the song, the original word has been left as it was written and recorded.

Meek makes reference to football.

Meek makes a reference to the drug Percocet, a highly addictive opioid that enjoys numerous references in contemporary Hip-Hop.

OUT OF OUR CONTROL - so much to unpack.

This stuff is SO COOL - I want to learn how to use it. I was left wanting an expansion on this idea of each box being an object with its own job - parallels songs in an album, instruments in an orchestra, notes in a key.

I understand this as, MIDI is a robotizing way of communicating information - but the "good" sounds that MIDI's produce, that we LIKE, are also robotic - There seems to be tons of room for discussing the zoe-politics (maybe not the right word?) of this - who likes what, why, what criteria do we used to decide what is good and what is bad music?

awesome word

Check out the "Noise" definition in the posthuman glossary

Through what materiality? (just a question, you can completely ignore)

Great quote - allowing the machinery to make its own music.

Does programing play us?

I am thinking about this issue too. How has the sacred "album" been transformed by this auditory distance?

This feels like a really cool/pertinent concept. The distance between sound in the natural world, the devices that record it, the code that processes it, the platform on which we consume it - this is a HUGE line of translation that must of some complex power dynamics, right?

Who is this?

Maybe room for antihumanist critiques here? In the form of the vitalist materiality of the wave - it has a natural form that, because we enjoy SOME of them, is simplified and made to sound (for our ears) nice. Just a thought.

necessitated by what? for the computer on one hand to understand it, but also for us so the process is quick and we dont have to wait? i have no idea but those are two things that came to mind

For an example of what? The idea in the previous quote?

Who is this?

what has it become if machines are no longer being used as tools?

what is human exceptionalism in art and music?

this question enabled you to think about the positives and negatives

This stands as a cool argumentative lens through which you are going to approach the project. Again, I almost wanted to be able to click on this statement and go to a different slide with some more theory behind it.

Why? How so? What makes them contradictory? I feel like this could be it's own slide all together - WHY IS TECH THREATENING MUSIC, that could be a whole different path

wording - "are seen as deeply human process" or "are deeply human in nature" , or whatever you want! just an idea

Who is the speaker on this quote? Braidotti? I would tag the source or do what you did above (Author last name, page #)

Jump to music here seems a little quick - what about MUSIC in particular in subject to the vitalist materialist principles rather than other mediums? Can music be understood as an "expensive" or "privileged" form of art due to its high overhead costs on equipment?

Strong quote - i think the non-linear aspect is really well expressed in the main idea map above. But, what is the quote designed to do? To set up the rest of the section? I am thinking through the same issues; how does the first set of information you provide set the tone of the whole slide? Is it worth having less slides with more information or more slides with less information? All just food for thought Q's i'm struggling with myself.