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August 11ths

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8/11/1998 Book of interviews by Bill Duckworth, "Thinking Music"...section about Phil Glass. Interesting that he studied for years with Boulanger and then did something completely different. Lesson: Do something completely different and forget about theory.  [8/11/2025: I’ve had a change about postmodern approaches to music, but not in visual art. “Anything goes” better in art than in music–at least for me at this point. Art generally is easier from a craft standpoint if all your focus is on ideas and concepts–which is different from generating art with zero art direction. With conceptual art, you are only the art director and the work is fabricated. With AI music, you are the producer only in the sense that you write prompts and curate the results. There is a fabrication process but there are no humans in the loop who are not anonymous or invisible. This is the biggest issue with AI music. Who are these musicians?]      8/11/2014 Bass players and those into fishing-...
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Once Upon a Time...The End

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    A 1986 jazz head with AI treatment. It's the first time this has ever been performed after 40 years.  
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0810

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  AI Treatment: 
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Curio No. 17

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  Ralph Meatyard - Untitled (1964)     AI treatment: 
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Harmonic Cycling

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A harmonic etude of ii-I-Vs through the circle of 4ths. The complete cycle modulating up in 4ths through all 12 keys: D-/C/G G-/F/C C-/Bb/F F-/Eb/Bb Bb-/Ab/Eb Eb-/Db/Ab G#-/F#/C# C#-/B/F# F#-/E/B B-/A/E E-/D/A A-/G/D    
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8/3/2026

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 Caustics  
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Composition Strategies: Parallel Topics

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7/31/2026

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 Interstitial  
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On the Other Side of the Year

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  Summer is a plain A plateau of life Everything in full bloom In the maximum light The sun made marks On a window sill The angle changed It caused a chill The summer leaves The flowers a clock Antipode to a country road On the other side of the year If you play a movie backwards It won't end up as it started It tells a different story To follow it is harder It's that time of year You notice the night A fading of light Disappearing from sight Take a turn With the calendar birds Hope to see you near On the other side of the year A time for reading novels Obscured by clouds Seasonal tales Never read aloud Tilt and rotation Light/dark shift Shadows of the day Shift and drift The summer leaves The flowers a clock Antipode to a country road On the other side of the year   ***  My pics: Speedo, Alibi, Vapor Cone
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Curio No. 102

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  Seed is the phrase " hunting ghosts in broad daylight", from this AI-generated diary entry by Thomas Sullivan, a fictitious character living in Chicago in 1886. So it goes from AI to human back to AI in the AI versions.   8/5/1886 I find myself hunting ghosts in broad daylight. Yesterday, wandering near where Miller’s store once stood, I searched for some trace of the black bunting from Lincoln’s mourning. Nothing. Glass and granite have consumed every landmark of my younger self. Time moves differently now—not the urgent acceleration I felt in ‘75, but a strange compression. Decades telescope into moments. I remember the weight of thirty years like yesterday’s coat, yet cannot recall what I ate for breakfast. AI Versions:
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Prog AI

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I still think AI music is in its talking head stage; we really don’t know what to do with it. It usually takes about 10 years for a new technology to get its sea legs. Eventually, lots of people will be using it legitimately, unless the courts decide otherwise. In the meantime, there's going to be a lot of smaller shifts that will increase the options, such as choosing keys and meters. If there was an option to create a song in 5/8 or 7/8 it would be interesting to see what it does with language. Would people generate prog? Perhaps. Would you subscribe to Rush AI for $50 a month?
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