Zoyland Music & The Music Round Table

Zoyland Music is a music blog I cofounded with Luke Smith. One of the projects, the music round table, has been running since 2018. A kind of book club for music, a group of friends who occasionally share music which moves them in some way.

Since the explosion of large language model artificial intelligence tools (LLMs*) we’ve started experimenting with analysis of our deep archives of music that we’ve exchanged and described.

The following blog posts are the result…

*A large language model, or LLM, is an artificial intelligence system designed to understand and generate human-like language based on extensive text-based training data.

These models are trained on vast datasets from sources like books, websites, and other text corpora, allowing them to perform a range of language tasks.

Importantly for us, they are able to very quickly do complex tasks like, analyse years worth of conversation about music, and provide us with nice summaries based on our queries.

What’s even more interesting is it can create a first draft of the blog post for us. It’s not at the point where it can determine which blog subjects we should feature - and the draft blog posts have to be manually checked and edited. That said in a matter of seconds it is able to do the hard bit - which is to review our archives for us.