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“Stupid” – Blixa Cash doesn’t believe in AI song lyrics
Blixa Cash prefers to write his own texts. Photo
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Blixa Cash has no shortage of ideas and ideas. And what does AI bring to the creative process?
“I was amazed at how stupid they were,” said Cash, assessing the result of the artificially generated lines of text. “I didn’t use it, but I always looked to see what would come out of it.”
88 volumes of ideas
The lyricist and composer can use extensive material as a basis for such experiments. For decades he has regularly written down ideas, fragments and texts and transferred them to the computer. Printouts of these are ultimately bound. According to Cash, the collection has now grown to 88 volumes.
Blixa Cash, born Christian Emmerich in West Berlin, is one of the most influential German rock musicians. He also works as a performance artist, composer, author and actor. In 1980, Cash founded the Einstreichen Neuhäusern, with whom he combined industrial, machine noise and gothic rock elements. For many years he played guitar in Nick Cave’s band The Bad Seeds. After a few years in San Francisco and Beijing, Cash lives back in Berlin with his family.