Q: Did Peter Jackson's AI tools make the movie? A: No, Deep Dream Generator is entirely independent of Wētā. - Q: Was Sir Peter involved? A: Yes, Peter Jackson and Morgan Neville supervised the final cut. - Q: Did Paul play bass? A: Yes, mostly bits and pieces. Fuck The Children Of The Rich is almost entirely Paul. So is Paramilitary Jamboree. - Q: Did you really write the White House Blues? A: Yes. It's a variant of Cops In The Beehive. It was my sheet music as wel

Q: What's really going on between you two? A: Chlöe and I are friends. Got engaged in 2024, but it's largely symbolic until she retires. - Q: How long did it take? A: The film began in 2022, and took two years to compile/shoot/finish. I started doing my bit in 2018, which is when our Fresh Culture films are from. - Q: Was it really as easy as it seemed? A: Regarding protesting, yes. Gary's a bit of a genius, and my performance art is a hit. We all faced intense GCSB an

This is the rumour that Disney, Sony and every pissed-off RIAA musician has spread. As I've said like a hundred times this year, NotePerformer renders classical scores. Peter's ML technology wasn't used to produce my covers. I'm sure you all have forensic audio technology. Pull it apart and you'll see what's what. As you'll see, there is no autotune and it's 5-8 parts recorded separately. It locks perfectly because I have absolute pitch and love vocal arranging. Paul liste

Ok, so his tragic death poses an automatic question: are his songs still good? Until the Divine Pitch album, which the suits were censoring as it was done. Should we separate art from the artist? That's Imagine Multimedia's philosophy. Does that mean his art is independent from his actions? No. He could have killed dozens. - What's it like? all the bad stuff disappears when they die, unless it's psychic baggage. John Lennon became a saint, not a serial sexual predator. S

Jane Asher confirmed it. Timothy Gray was a real singer who worked with Hugh Martin, while Jack Gray was the name Paul used when writing songs with Hugh. It's a lot like with Taylor and Don/Peter. He helped her with some early hits too. High Spirits is the one where Paul got to co-write the songs. Hugh Martin had a nervous breakdown in the early 1960's. Paul was there for him. - The real Timothy Gray found out, then stole the credit and the royalties for High Spirits. Pau

Currently, nobody. Amanda Michelina is entirely me overdubbing myself. People who aren't composers were confused, but NotePerformer is just a tool for rendering out good orchestral synth. I sang all the parts, and used octave displacement to turn my classical guitar into an electrified bass and sitar. One take per track, minus a few inserts like the high note in Twist and Shout. The percussion is me drumming my desk and the objects on it. The horn is my mouth trombone. There

I. From Transmission to Presence Mass media is usually understood as a means of transmission. A song is recorded, a photograph printed, a film distributed, an interview broadcast. Something that happened at one time and place is transported to people who were not there to experience it. The medium therefore appears to solve a problem of absence: it allows an event, a work or a person to be encountered after the original moment has passed. But transmission is an incomplete des

Slept from late afternoon until 1:30am. All the x265 downcodes failed, so I'll be remaking those as I go. I was running out of room on my Google Drive, but now it's got 200GB. - Life of Brian They got all the Monty Python guys to take acid with them, and this was the idea that emerged. Brian is a reference to Son of Dracula and Harry Nilsson. Paul and Ringo put up about $60,000 pounds each. George put in over a million. They were George's mates, after all; he was the die-h

The Tribal Eye Sir David said that America, Russia and China wanted nothing to do with it. - All You Need Is Cash Paul said that it was initially a ploy to mock them, but Eric Idle made it funny.

The x265 file of The Tribal Eye crapped out. Making two parts as x264 files. Here's my review to date: Raga The weird cuts in the title sequence were intentional. Apple Films wanted to see if people were paying attention. Paul reckons this needs a good restoration. He thinks the mistakes are in the original negative. The film company was the biggest afterthought of all by this point, Ravi was an innovator. He brought sophisticated Western counterpoint to Indian music. He tr

I've put it all together, and I'm watching along with all the other bigwigs. These are my notes from yesterday. - Marathon comments: Ringo watched the original Our World broadcast live until their bit, but everyone else was too stoned. Sir David wasn't happy with two bits: the bit about reading and the bit about art as delight. Art isn't perfunctory... The Tribal Eye responds to those allegations. Our World is essentially a pacifist manifesto (echoes of AMPP lol). Paul sco

1964 NZ tour as a movie was my idea. Peter was too young to remember it and too involved in the big picture. He was asking me to come up with something via the Anthology, though. I made the Palestine protest rally film in the same month, so Paul was keen to chat. - Why did I remember it? I used to live in the St. George hotel for a month. The Beatles are their claim to fame. I didn't know much, but it struck me as potentially interesting for Peter. - Why did I get to pi

I tune against the sympathetic resonance of the instrument itself. That's how I play it in with fresh strings. Struck correctly, the low string can activate all the other overtones. From underneath, with the underside of the pulgar. Rolling it over the string, tanpura style. - Works with all the strings, then the colours dance. Māori musicians have an internal reference pitch (oro matua). - When the strings are settled, I use whatever tuning method is appropriate.

While he's probably still third-best, I think his post-Beatles lyrics are the best by a mile. Unlike the other two, he uses rhyme and meter in a classical fashion. Almost all of his lyrics use perfect rhymes. He was also a friend of Sondheim, much like Michael and Jermaine Jackson. That's why George's lyrics are subtler than Paul's or John's.

AMPP skits with Perfumed Garden music; Hard To Be A God; Prime Omelette theme. If it has non-rock instruments, they're probably synth (unless it's my mouth trombone). Otherwise, it's licenced or entirely me. Tango For Guitar And Viola is real; it was a Year 13 assignment. Martin Qi did the viola part. He was 18. I was 17. Caprice 1a was a university assignment. A visiting violinist recorded all our pieces. All the voices in the songs are me. There's no autotune.

Realiti Jinx Sister Is She or Isn't He? A Soldier's Tale* The Raid** Savage Fantail*** Chronesthesia**** Millie Lies Low***** Hopeless - *Yes, it's technically an NZ movie (with Gabriel Byrne). **No offence intended to Tūhoe! Operation 8 is better. ***The ending really cheesed me off. ****Produced by Steve Barr. His other NZ features are apparently crap as well. *****Turned it off. Hopeless is one that I genuinely like, but it's still crap.

Ingrid asked me back in 2021. I go to ground: I camp out in my room and do research. This time, I've cracked the 'telepathy' problem. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hcQBLVoX_TXEo-QjyXv9D2zSJ7HD_6ZN/view?usp=sharing

Well, with my films, we don't usually know until the end. My main argument is that the film was the outgrowth of Paul and I taking LSD. The film began with a song written during the trip and took three months to complete. I'd say that it was a two-pronged idea: 1. Getting Paul and I to a point where we felt like we were beyond falsity. 2. Deconstructing the visual effect of LSD in order to dissolve barriers to enlightenment. It's also a way of dumping our shared traumas on

Iwi whakapapa books. Unlike the Native Americans, we know which people trace descent. The family history department at the National Library dug into my family history as a result of my rendition of Puhihuia. I said it was a song that an ancestor had written. They figured out that I was descended from Tupaia, and shit got crazy. Several months of theory essays and rewriting colonial history. - How do I know I'm Samoan? It was a family secret. My Uncle John told me recentl

Yes, I know nobody wants to hear it, and it's fun for people to point at my recent albums and say that they were done the old-fashioned way without autotune or quantising, but the truth is that all forms of computing were based on how we saw our brains. That probably goes all the way back to the abacus, but we'll start with Babbage. He sought to make a thinking machine. That sounds a lot like what AI is... Tātai Whetū was based on roughly four decades of consciousness studi