I asked ChatGPT3.5 to summarize my art practice based on a post I wrote here earlier this year. It took it less than a second. Here’s what it wrote.

Carly Eiseman’s project, “1 Album A Day,” began as a personal endeavor to deepen her connection with music. It originated from her desire to immerse herself in albums, leading her to listen to one album each day from start to finish without skipping tracks. This commitment to attentive listening allowed her to discover nuances and details in the music that she hadn’t noticed before. As she listened, she also engaged in painting, creating artworks inspired by the albums she heard.

Over time, the project expanded to include a variety of activities such as sharing photos and videos on Instagram, organizing group listening sessions where participants would paint together, and incorporating over a thousand paintings related to the albums she listened to. However, the project was temporarily put on hold during the pandemic as Eiseman shifted her focus to other activities like registering voters and painting on postcards.

With the arrival of the new year in 2024, Eiseman decided to revive the “1 Album A Day” project and integrate it with her friend Tamara Palmer’s Music Book Club. This collaboration aims to combine the experience of deep listening with engaging discussions about music culture books. The first event will feature a conversation with author Dan Charnas about his book “Dilla Time,” focusing on the influential musician J. Dilla and his impact on Detroit’s culture.

Through this project, Eiseman invites others to join her in exploring music, art, and literature, fostering a community of music enthusiasts who appreciate the depth and richness of musical experiences.

I really haven’t felt threatened by AI, but I am more and more aware that the speed of it is unnerving. I can’t quite fathom its “faster than I take a breath” speed. The machine thinks faster and more concisely than I do about many things, especially my own creative endeavors, which laboriously take shape over long durational periods of time. Its acknowledgment of the deepness of the practice fills me with a sense of pride and unease, that I can’t quite pinpoint.

While the summaries are only as accurate as the inputs it receives, when the data set is quality, I value its thoughtful output. It is my new favorite reinterpretation buddy, a 21st century editor.

I published this and then realized I had asked GPT3.5 not GPT4 to do the work. So I went back and asked the newer version to complete the same task, expecting an almost duplicated summary. But I was surprised to instead be shared a more intimate and descriptive version. But the truth is while I liked the details of the second version, I thought the prior AI summary was of higher quality.

“The blog post recounts the author’s journey of deepening their connection to music and art, a process that began several years ago on New Year’s Day during a drive back from the desert. Having started to paint daily a few months prior, the author found themselves listening to albums more intently because the inconvenience of changing music with paint-covered hands led them to listen to full albums without interruption. This practice made them feel closer to music than they had in a long time.

Inspired during one such drive, the author decided to embark on a project they called “1 Album A Day” (1AAD), with two simple rules: listen to one album from start to finish each day, without skipping any tracks. This project evolved to include paintings inspired by each album, along with an Instagram feed featuring photos and videos related to the albums. The author shared this experience with others, organizing events where everyone would listen to an album together and paint. Over time, more than a thousand paintings were created, each linked to the album listened to that day. This ritual continued until the pandemic, when the author shifted their focus towards voter registration, using their artistic skills to create postcards.

For 2024, the author has decided to resurrect the 1AAD project and connect it with Tamara Palmer’s Music Book Club, a new social community and newsletter/magazine focused on music culture books. The first event of this collaboration will be a discussion with Dan Charnas about his book “Dilla Time,” celebrating the legacy of J. Dilla, his impact on Detroit, and his influence in music culture. The author encourages readers to join the Music Book Club to engage in meaningful conversations about music and its cultural significance.

This blog post is unique and not directly related to ChatGPT 3.5 or its functionalities. Instead, it focuses on a personal project combining music, art, and community engagement, showcasing a creative way to deepen one’s connection to music and culture.”