Machines rocking out: is AI a creative springboard? Understand its promise but also why human artistry still leads.

I’m an introvert and I love dance music and raves. These things don’t seem like they’d go together, but I know there are tons of people like me out there. For me, raves are an act of world-building– a manifestation of a space that welcomes possibility and relationality. For a moment in time, everyone shares the dancefloor, pulsing and moving to the music as one. Like a metahuman organism with its heart beating in 4/4. But raves can be tough. The sound is blaring, it’s crowded, and the stimulation can be too much. And yet, I have so much respect for it, the music, and its legacy.

MCON was my first crypto conference and is also my first trip out of state post-pandemic. I didn’t have any point of reference as to what these events are like IRL. Prior, I traveled mostly as a touring musician.