September 15ths
9/15/1981 Death of Bill Evans. A dedication by Metheny/Mays. [9/15/2025: A piece I would cite as being emotional and elegiac. in the same way Barber's Adagio For Strings is, a bit maudlin at times., yet sincere]. 9/15/1998 Every new technology creates new paradigms of thinking and spawns new kinds of art and ways of creating art. As Kevin Kelly says, “revolutions take place in what we make, how we make it, how we decide what to make in the nature of the economy that we make it in.” [9/15/2024: I have begun to use AI in my work, which is my choice, not one that has been foisted on me. I take parts that I like and leave the rest. When there is so much pressure for ratings and popularity, we reflexively move toward it and perhaps away from those things that are “of a piece” with our own lives, with an eye on “the nature of the economy that we make it in.”] [9/15/2025: Why Do We Stop? ...
