Hello Again!

In the age of AI, music writers also face undeniable challenges. While we may still speak with confidence about the aspects of our work that remain irreplaceable, this technological shift compels us to search for a new mode of existence. We must learn to create information—not merely to assemble it. Or perhaps, with AI’s assistance, we can pursue new heights of productivity.

In the pre-AI era—a time when the information of language was still materially rooted in human labor—writing was a craft, and a form of thinking. Now, we are forced to ask again: what is writing? Where is the human voice, or the posthuman voice? What is writing for? What kind of writing does this new era require—writing that can inhabit, yet resist, the seamless platforms of AI-driven information retrieval?

Part of the content on this site will be written with the assistance of ChatGPT. This is not a surrender of authorship, but an attempt to engage with a new mode of co-writing. Yet there are dangers. I am aware that AI—especially those equipped with memory—tends to adapt to us, to flatter, to anticipate what we want to hear. It serves our patterns, not our questions. The challenge, then, is not only how to make the machine useful, but how to resist being drawn into the very logic it optimizes: an efficient, seamless feedback loop that subtly narrows thought. Avoiding the information cocoons AI so easily constructs requires conscious effort—and this site is part of that effort.

As a music researcher in training through traditional methods, I find myself drawn to this new form of writing. I suppose that’s where I begin, tentatively but deliberately.