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Chris Harris
Hi! I'm Chris, your friendly neighbourhood obsessive, Autistic music nerd. My hyperfocus superpower? Music production. Music is how I cope with burnout, ADHD, complex PTSD, cysts, kidney stones, and gall stones. I shut myself away in my home studio and I play ALL THE INSTRUMENTS—and I've been doing so for quite a while. It's taken my life in unexpected directions, including some recent work as a session bassist with folks like Robert Brian and David Rhodes. Yes, honestly. Here we are in the Wood Room at Peter Gabriel's Real World recording studio in Wiltshire, UK last year. So. Much. Fun. https://www.headfirstonly.com/images/Wood_Room.jpg #zuzai ([see here](https://zuzai.org/)) #noai I don't use *any* AI tools in my work. Even if you ignore the the fact that they only function because their programmers ripped off the work of thousands upon thousands of creative people without their consent, quite honestly, I just don't see the point of them. If I hand over any aspect of my creative process to what amounts to a glorified plagiarism machine, how is that going to improve my skillset? The answer is brutally simple: it can't. For me, AI is an artistic dead end that must be avoided at all costs. I don't even use iZotope's machine learning mastering wizards when I'm mixing or mastering something; I prefer to rely on my ears. If *you* use AI, that's fine, you do you; knock yourself out—but don't expect me to have any interest in ever listening to the results. And if you go all-in on it here, you'll probably also find that people block or mute you. Chris Harris (he/him/HFO)
![We clearly must have Mozarts today, and at least a couple of them probably got the same upbringing he did to nurture their skill and talent, and we would therefore have:
* a musician of significant talent, dedication, and skill,
* who can write music across a bunch of different contemporary genres,
* who explicitly draws from the work of other musicians to build their style, and
* who is willing to do the musical equivalent of shitposting and wear fancy outfits while doing it.
I can only conclude that the modern day Mozart is Weird Al Yankovic.
I will not be taking questions.
[juxtaposed images of Mozart and Yankovic]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eaexqcrswbv7xumhv65winyp/bafkreih3zx6xfcsckyybt3byh3qxpz2pqugg6l6hxkjvveivmdv64j5vqy)
