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9/6/2006  Studio: “LaGrange Point”. The string tremulants give a sense of motion, with French Horn swells placed a minor second above, giving a sense of drama and foreboding. As film music, it could be used in a penultimate scene to a battle of some kind. Here, it gives one the sense of being in a large cavernous space. [9/6/2026: Suno blocked an upload of this. Ownership is now based on the sound of a piece of music, not the actual music that can be reduced to notation in a score. It's full of dissonances that aren't cliche. What it hears are the cinematic “John Williams” score cliches: Timpani, horn swells, and snare drum. It also blocks similar lyric lines but again, the cliche of them. Perhaps in the future artists will own words, just as colors can be copyrighted .  Now those claims are stupidly made by algorithms with no justification or evidence. It just is. Even a microsecond of a piece of music is enough to identify a recording]. 9/6/2012        ...

Figured Basses (AI Version)

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  A cheesy cutout album you found for 50 cents recorded circa 1973. Amazing that a drummer finally was able to play it.  

Shafts

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Chord Tones For the Bird Bones

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 AI-generated.    

Expecting the Call (AI Jazz)

A "Mingused" blues, harmonizing a blues scale with extended chords. Amazing how good the AI spins are, even with the free model. It has a hard time sussing the chords, but then learns them.  

Universal Speech Rhythms

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    The rhythmic grouping of eighth-quarter-eighth (or quarter-eighth-eighth or eighth-eighth-quarter) beginning on a downbeat is one of the most common speech rhythms, probably in any language. Displacing them an eighth note in either direction makes the words unintelligible ("ships arrive" becomes "ships A-rrive", "jumbo jet" becomes "jumBO jet"), but there are other words that could be mapped to that rhythm, e.g. "container". Obviously it doesn't matter in instrumental music, but speech rhythms can become rhythmic building blocks. Some words with the 8-4-8 (or 8-8-4) schema: Ships arrive Walk the streets In my youth Got around Thinking that Better than Still alive

Curio No. 103

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  Slippery Slope , based on Dynaxiom 2878. The vibe is Barrett-era Floyd with the characteristic descending chromatic lines. *** How Suno spins it:    

Creative Evolution

I have always worked combinatorially, i.e., each creative act is somehow connected to others, either spontaneously (when I am aware of them) or later when I associate them with existing works. This works the same for my music as well as art projects. I also have always kept lists of ideas, titles, strategies, and so on, which I go back to very often. Electronic notebooks, such as Evernote have made this easier (perhaps too easy), but I used to keep paper journals and sketchbooks. There are two basic ways to add cohesion to creativity: 1) create the work then serialize; 2) create similar pieces in an existing series. This also works in music where you can compose first, then add to a collection (album) or define the framework for the album and fill it in accordingly. I don’t think there’s anything that I do, either through design methodologies, or through improvisation that doesn’t fit with something I’ve done before. I know there are some artists who like to make something they’ve neve...

Base 12 Symmetries in Music

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 From Islamic Design: A Genius For Geometry      

Broken Wing (AI Versions)

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  5/8 Delta Blues     

5/27/2026

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  Buncheong