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Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by smitty1e on Friday January 01, 2021 @06:39PM (#25608536)
Rick Beato rails against gridding and autotune in music over on YouTube.

My wife, a health outcomes researcher, points out that the expectation is that every little publishable bit be kicked out the door for a pharma project.

Historically, they would have dropped a single summary result at the end of the effort.

Now, she's trying to "autotune" the neutral or even negative results. Nominally in the name of "transparency".

If this is true, the need is a research Adele to come along and shame the riff-raff with sheer natural brilliance.

Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by Sophistifunk on Friday January 01, 2021 @08:57PM (#25609483)
We all know autotune, but what's "gridding"?
Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by 1986 on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:58PM (#25609915)
I'm guessing this means quantization of a rhythm.
Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by redis_mlc on Saturday January 02, 2021 @01:24AM (#25610872)
Correct, it's aligning played musical notes to a bar (measure) on a computer screen.

Then almost always, a clone tool is used to repeat that one bar identically dozens of times.

So you lose most of the organic nature of music in a mechanical fashion.

Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by Sophistifunk on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @05:15PM (#25663372)
I agree you're losing something that might be valuable, but it's not really part of the music, rather part of the performance. I think there's room for both though, just as we've had studio vs live recordings for the last 50 years or so.
Re:Peer-reviewed papers are getting increasingly boring by smitty1e on Saturday January 02, 2021 @01:31PM (#25615069)
Who needs humanity when you can have mathematical perfection?

Beside humans?