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November 2nds

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11/2/2005 Music listeners are again opting to buy singles, not albums...As Malcolm Gladwell suggests, we are designed to "thin slice"). The invention of the iPod apparently reshaped how people consume content—short and mobile.  Pix on Michigan Avenue (warm evening)   11/2/2015 The string fetish of bassists now up to 24 strings. Then there’s the one or two-string bass, which I love because it’s the polar opposite. But you can still have a 2-string bass on the 4-string that you have, simply by using two adjacent strings at a time. It’s a good strategy to get you thinking in more narrow ranges and in double stops, and off the root, which may be exactly what the music needs. Tuned in fifths the 2-string would be good for melodies and intervals of fifths and sixths. It is obviously not as versatile as a 4-string, but even then it is one too many. Tuned in unisons you could get a nice chorusing effect on a 2-string. The bass balalaika has only three strings and works beautifully fo...
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Disaster Movies (AI Versions)

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    AI is a cliche machine for film music. Nothing like this could never be performed without the old machinery of film scores with full orchestras. No one would want to do the score and parts.    *** Song Versions:
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Why Do We Stop? (Music)

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I never stopped (Taking a photograph) I never stopped (Making a film) We never stopped (Looking for happiness) Whether or not Why did we stop? The best way To keep on going Is to not stop (Why do we stop?) Where a river stops And starts again Where it stopped Is where you begin I never stopped (Taking a photograph) I never stopped (Making a film) We never stopped (Looking for happiness) If or if not Why did we stop? Before it's if And then it's when Even if the bottom drops You' ll never stop I never stopped (Taking a photograph) I never stopped (Making a film) We never stopped (Looking for happiness) It might have topped Why did we stop? Copyright 2026 Lee Barry. Lyric rights reserved. 
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Why Do We Stop?

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We're always stopping doing something: we stopped emailing in favor of texting. In the future, we'll stop texting and do something else. We stopped a lot of things in the past with new conveniences. Who would want to scrub clothes on a washboard just because? We might have stopped doing certain unfashionable things, but those things are still alive in some ways. There will always be claims that something is dead: "photography is dead" or "art is dead", "music is dead". Of course, there are things that die off in an evolutionary process, industries change, and so on, but that institutional knowledge is still stirring within us. Many creative people who have spent decades of their lives studying a subject, or have continued a craft, don't completely stop doing those things--even if they've stopped doing them. The palimpsest of the experiences are still visible in the background. Institutional knowledge that we have accumulated over centuries ...
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Curio No. 106

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    Curio No. 106 by meta4s   ***  
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3/8/2023

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 Style and Decorate  
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AI Music and the Found (Profound) Lyric

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Lyric from bullet points, from Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr. Some things are musical right from a list.      
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Curio No. 122

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    AI extension as Prog. Interesting that it picks up the 6/4. 
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Music As a Visual Art

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In the late 20th century, (post-1965) pop music gradually became more of a collage art, with appropriated pieces quickly assembled and placed in ironic contexts and juxtapositions (techniques borrowed from the visual arts). Whereas craft was more of a cornerstone of the creation of works of art, someone got the idea that art should also have cleverness, or what I have sometimes referred to as the "fourth dimension" of art, i.e. the ideas suffused in the art, but not always reflected in the surface.  Today, the quintessential definition of a true composer of music is one who can collage together loops, sound samples and readymade textures, not melodies, chords and rhythms. The true suffering for one's art is not by these noble means, but rather by prefabbed concoctions, or found sounds snatched by license set forth by the Creative Commons. While it is a nice idea that we can share-alike, the upshot is that the average listener attributes what they hear as being created by ...
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G5 Tuning

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The tuning is interesting as it exploits the use of open strings and hammer-ons, and is essentially the bottom 4 strings of an open G tuning, or a G5 chord. Octaves become ninths Could this have been written is standard tuning? Possibly. It has chord changes that you could play a bass part against. But it won't have the same vibe: The strings are slackened and they give the bass a bit more growl.   
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Human In the Loop

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    Since I'm currently not interested in being in a band, I'm very interested in discovering bands and forming fake bands with AI. I find it incredibly interesting from a conceptual standpoint, and it has given musicians, or even the general public, the ability to do those kinds of things. As a musician, I see it as a separate "department" aside from my other things that I do in music, now involving going back and doing manual scoring. I see it as kind of a bookending of my musical abilities.  AI generation is essentially a listener's activity. This is not uninteresting in itself, because as a musician, you have to have the ability to listen to and assess what's going on in the music on a micro level, almost imperceptibly. But the other part of music, at least for the last half-century or more, has been really more of a visual art. Once an album is done, the album art has to be created, which is also an interesting aspect that conceptualizes the whole piece. ...
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