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Arts | How and why I wrote ‘I Dreamt I Was An Astronaut’

Jeremy Tuplin/February 1, 2018February 2, 2018

I feel that the second part of this two-part question is more difficult to answer. Leaving aside one’s own endless,…

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Insight | Life as an Orchestrator

Daniel O'Neill/August 30, 2017February 2, 2018

As far back as I remember I’ve loved the different sounds of my favourite classical composers. Early on I became…

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In-depth | Artificial Intelligence: the creative processor?

Gerard Lynch/November 1, 2016March 8, 2018

If AI machines can only learn from what has come before, how can they instigate a paradigm shift in creative…

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Scifi | Noise some, Words some

Gerard Lynch/October 10, 2016February 2, 2018

  Intercepted email correspondence, September 8th, 2016: “So I ran an open source speech recognition system on the ambient office…

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Insight | A writer’s take on coping with depression

Peter Boyd/October 10, 2016February 2, 2018

“Something is always born of excess: great art was born of great terrors, great loneliness, great inhibitions, instabilities, and it…

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Essay | The healing sound: music and the power of the word

Conor O'Malley/October 6, 2016February 2, 2018

“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.” Maya…

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