PES 209: Michael Garfield, Host of Complexity

My guest is Michael Garfield - host of Complexity, host of Future Fossils, musical artist, and Social-Media-Strategist-Podcast-Producer at the Santa Fe Institute.

We discussed SO MUCH, including:

• M 88 TG: Dynamic Microphone (Hypercardioid)
• Shure PG 42 USB
• Scarlett 4i4 2nd Gen. with AIR button
• Ableton Live
• “Make It Loud” compressor preset
• iZotope plugins - De-noise, De-reverb, and more.
• Squadcast - for both his shows
• Zoom is a nightmare
• Macbook Pro
• Billie Eilish has used an AT 2020
• Roland cables
• Yeti Nano -- for dropping the mic at the guests house. ***Hear it on the Scott Otrtman episode of Complexity. 
• Beats Studio Pro headphones
• Simplecast
• Uploads Stereo MP3’s
• Vocal Synthesis!
• Sub-vocalization
• Grimes and Endel - AI powered lullaby, baby music, depending on time of day, 
• Deep-learning musical synthesis
• Open AI jukebox project
• GPT-3, people are talking to GPT-3???
• Mubert - music generator app
• Reface - swap your face into a movie
• Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
• Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans by Melanie Mitchell
• Conceptual abstraction, Alpha Go can’t apply what it’s learned to other games - it can't analogize

Thanks Michael for being a great guest!