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Confronting AI

By David Bixler | Liner Notes
April 22, 2025
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AI-labor saving tool or existential threat? On his new recording Server Farm, saxophonist and composer

Jon Irabagon

saxophone, tenor

" data-original-title="" title="">Jon Irabagon contemplates the potential threat and promise of this omni-present technology. For this recording Irabagon augments his regular quartet consisting of keyboardist

Matt Mitchell

piano
b.1975

" data-original-title="" title="">Matt Mitchell, bassist

Chris Lightcap

bass
b.1971

" data-original-title="" title="">Chris Lightcap, and percussionist

Dan Weiss

drums

" data-original-title="" title="">Dan Weiss with violinist and vocalist

Mazz Swift

violin

" data-original-title="" title="">Mazz Swift, trumpeter

Peter Evans

trumpet

" data-original-title="" title="">Peter Evans, guitarists

Miles Okazaki

guitar
b.1974

" data-original-title="" title="">Miles Okazaki and

Wendy Eisenberg

guitar

" data-original-title="" title="">Wendy Eisenberg, bassist

Michael Formanek

bass, acoustic
b.1958

" data-original-title="" title="">Michael Formanek, and percussionist and electronic musician Levy Lorenzo. Imitating AI, Jon spent several years doing a deep dive into the musical output of his collaborators, mining their entire catalogues for ideas that create the foundation of the music on this exciting recording.

This episode features music from Jon Irabagon's Server Farm.

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