Jack Antonoff is taking aim at music created with the use of artificial intelligence as he prepares to release his rock band Bleachers’ fifth studio album.
The Grammy Award-winning producer, scheduled to perform at Berkeley’s Greek Theatre on Sept. 17, has been sharing typed-out journal entries to Instagram ahead of releasing “Everyone for Ten Minutes” on May 22. His most recent post touches on the process of creating art.
“(W)hat we do has become an ancient ritual,” Antonoff wrote on Wednesday, May 13. “(Y)ou don’t have to write music anymore, you don’t have to record it and you don’t have to bring the band out and play it. (A)nd yet for us, the idea of optimizing what we do is a complete miss of the entire point of what compels us in the first place.”…