MUSICOLOGY: AI AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR AUTHENTIC MUSIC

Farya Faraji (YouTube Channel link) is an Iranian Canadian music theorist who travels the world to analyze different indigenous or ancient music scores and tunes and brings them to life. This quest brought him to Greece. He relegated the bouzouki to a mere Italian/Ionian novelty not worthy of his time (watch "Why Does Greek Music Sound Eastern? - And Why It's a Dumb Question" link). He teaches us about the chromatic and the diatonic mode, microtonality, enharmonics and other interesting musical phenomena you did not even know existed. But now he sees his career and the careers of his fellow travelers endangered by stupid and deliberate misrepresentations of his work and goals. He explains in the latest video why he may have to reconsider creating any more Epic Byzantine work.

April 27, 2026 Farya Faraji: How The Epic Byzantine Songs Are Made - And Why Real Traditional Music Is Successful.

When I read that Google is training its AI on the Reddit Internet gutter, I thought, what could go wrong? Well, here we are. Original, authentic music is being blackballed in favor of stupid AI knockoffs. It's a damn shame we can't protect artists from this crap!

TO HELL WITH AI SLOB

Jan 24, 2026 Farya Faraji: AI Songs Are Pretending to Be Authentic Historical Music.

In this podcast Farya Faraji is going deep into the technical details of AI generated musical kitsch. He explains why it is particularly obvious that Eastern musical modes can't be mistaken for Western tropes. The two are at the root as distinct in character as Eastern and Western Christianity! (Link)

THE ANCIENT GREEK ROOT OF BYZANTINE MUSIC

Oct 10, 2025 Farya Faraji: Byzantine Medieval Music: A Beginner's Introduction feat. Aristoxenus.

Farya Faraji is back in his role of Aristoxenus to talk about medieval Greek music and what we know about it. What I love about this pet peeve of his, is that it so thoroughly destroys the purposely devised lie that there is a schism between the modern, the medieval and the classical Greek traditions.

The reasons why is the subject matter of a chapter in a book I am putting together. But consider this weird paradox in the modern consciousness: Pagan "Greece is the cradle of Western civilization" whereas medieval Greece/Eastern Rome/Byzantium is wholly Eastern and alien.

Suffice here to say that the Greek culture and language has an uninterrupted history of at least 3,5 thousand years, probably even longer. If we replace the made up term 'Byzantine' with Eastern Roma, the reason for the historical and cultural cover up, becomes more apparent.