Mirlos News · November 2025
Paths for Art and Technology
[ in Spanish HERE ]
At our studio, we are no strangers to the technological revolution—AI + Bitcoin—that we are currently experiencing, and it will affect all humans in general and artists in particular. That is why Mirlo will introduce in this News the new digital tools that we are going to use, and we encourage you to try them out to stay connected in the best way possible. Below you will find our tip for today.
But first, let’s follow Manuel’s footsteps in the real world.
New Season & New School Year
by Manuel Gimferrer
My collaboration with the Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir is intensifying. The new 2025-2026 season is going from strength to strength, and my work as assistant conductor is becoming more intense. I recently had the opportunity to conduct the orchestra in rehearsal for a special concert with a wonderful program that included Haydn’s Symphony No. 103 (“Drum Roll”) and Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”). Below a leave the video of what was a very special moment for me. For those reading this who are not musicians, it is worth clarifying that conductors have to accurately assess how the orchestra sounds from the distance of the audience, in order to correct imbalances and ensure the best experience for listeners in the stalls, the tiers, etc.
This also explains the meaning of my work here.
Thanks to the collaboration with the Orquesta y Coro Filarmonia, other work opportunities have arisen that are as unexpected as they are gratifying for me.
On the one hand, I am teaching music to children between 3 and 13 years old in two schools: the Brewster Institute Madrid and the German School. I love conducting children, and it seems that they also like to learn with me. This experience is extraordinary for me personally, because it is allowing me to take a fresh look at my own childhood, and to recover some perhaps lost memories of my first contacts with music, when I enjoyed it in a more spontaneous way.
On the other hand, every week I go to Velilla de San Antonio where the municipal choir of which I am the director awaits me. It is a small choir with which I hope to put together programs that everyone will enjoy, both the choir members and those who attend our events. At the moment, we are preparing a Christmas Concert. But I will tell you more about that in future newsletters.
This Sunday at the National Auditorium, at 7:30 p.m.: Amor Brujo and La Vida Breve by Falla...
Finally, I am involved in an international arranging and orchestration project, which I will tell you more about in a few weeks.
Thank you for staying here.
2026 Software ** PRIVATE COMMUNICATIONS**
by Mirlo
In the previous News we introduced an email that allows you to send encrypted messages from source to destination, ProtonMail, a service founded in Switzerland and with Open Source code supervision. This is a fundamental first step, to reclaim the privacy of your communications. Mirlo
Privacy in communications is a fundamental right, which in the past was considered almost “sacred”, although it may seem untrue today. Convenience and even the fascination for new technologies have made us neglect fundamental rights, disregarding their value, exposing our location (and many other data) and endangering our security. We never know who has access and/or can use what we communicate with our addressee!
Some of us at Mirlo Studio are tired of “walking around naked” on the Internet, we have left behind the most vigilant services that steal our data, traffic it, or simply store it dangerously. Are we paranoid? Either way, we are not alone. Look in the comments, and ask yourself: has the time come to free yourself from WhatsApp? 🤔
At Mirlo Studio, we are going to leave behind our old messaging services and opt for other more respectful and encrypted services. We will start with Signal, a service founded years ago that is used even at the government level, and which has improved in recent times.
Of course there are alternatives to Signal, where not even a phone number is required to access the services. This is an important issue because when you hand over your email or your phone, you are not only giving up your privacy, but you are also sharing your contacts, indirectly unprotecting... but for the moment we are going to progress in the best way.
In the studio we are exploring the best tools, and Signal seems to us a good way to start raising awareness. By 2026 we want to be equipped with a new toolbox to help us navigate the network with more control.
With ProtonMail and its encrypted drive and Signal as messaging, video chats and private meetings, we have the tools to communicate and approach collaborative projects remotely.
In the next email we will talk about the exchange of value and how to carry it out on the network directly without platforms or intermediaries...
GEORGINA’s readings
In order not to make this News any longer, I leave three very brief reviews with links so that everyone can do their own research according to their own interests. As they say out there: DYOR - Do Your Own Research 🧐
El puente donde habitan las mariposas, by Nazareth Castellanos
A book that brings confidence in the ability of every human being to sculpt his or her brain, with all the responsibility that this implies. The author is a neurologist who brings scientific evidence and testimonies as well as her own experience to ground that wisdom and make it useful for us to heal even our past. The words of Ramon y Cajal put her on the way to find out what is most important, to awaken consciences and to discover that we can all be reborn, if we set our minds to it.
“If you set your mind to it” is the sine qua non on which the author reflects the most. Being able to set out to heal and to be “reborn” with a stronger brain is an uplifting power. But it is a very difficult task, and not everyone sets out with the necessary determination.
You can find the book here.
To know more see an interview with the author.
Empire of AI, by Karen Hao
A journalist - engineer and journalist - spends three days inside Open AI doing research for a report. She enters with genuine enthusiasm and interest, but what she hears from the senior members and all their experience leads her to question the path she has taken in this crucial development for humanity: the race towards AGI -Artificial General Intelligence-, which is presented to her as the main course.
I find the tone of the managers’ conversations deeply alarming, as well as their lack of scruples in enslaving hundreds of thousands of poor people in South America and Africa, and I am overcome by the information about the needs of the data fields and their destructive capacity of land and communities. If you are concerned by ethics and the future of humanity, this book definitely makes you cautious about Ai and responsible before start enthusiastically using any tool.
Finally, it is worth pointing that what prompted the author to write the book is the big question that I also ask myself, and which I invite you to reflect on. If AI is capable of performing so many tasks so accurately, why do they insist on developing it to replace human beings, instead of developing it as a tool at their service?
You can find the book here.
Find out more in this interview with the author at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
The Sovereign Individual, by James Dale Davison y William Rees-Mogg
This book, published last century (it was published in 1997), is written to prepare us for the present moment. The bold predictions, mostly accurate, are surprising. It is a read that changes your perspective on what is happening. Most of the information that comes to us as news is “noise,” overwhelming noise in which truth cannot be discerned from lies, and manipulation is rampant. The media is only looking for our reaction, as well as to steal our time and weaken our judgment. Only those who are well prepared will know how to take advantage of the enormous power that technology will offer us as individuals.
I encourage you to look for the book. In Spanish, I could not get it. It seems that it has been discontinued 🤔 In any case, I leave here the intro you will find on Wikipedia.
And on YouTube there are quite a few summaries and reviews like the one below. This is just a fast overview:
The three readings have the power to enrich your point of view with ideas that help to break assumptions and prejudices, and also help to order your thoughts to be able to act if you want to progress steadily. They are highly recommended to prepare for 2026.
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