Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

  Nosound Release Cover of Pink Floyd’s ‘Dogs’ Featuring Tim Bowness It's interesting to think about the evolution of Pink Floyd since the 70s, and what they meant to boomer musicians. They were a seminal band for me, and they are almost sacred in that regard. But will anyone be able to fully drink in that moment, continually distracted by the election results coming in? Lyrics can be very emotionally triggering: Many lines in Dogs could be triggering because they strike so close to the moment, and describe Trump's take-no-prisoners style in Waters' take-no-prisoners style. ("You got to strike when the moment is right without thinking") Not that it's on Gilmour's set list, but when you revisit 1977 and compare it today, it's pretty chilling. Looking at old family photos also gives you that same cognitive dissonance. Jimmy Carter was in office when I first got into Pink Floyd, one year after the bicentennial. Today's world would have been inconceiva...

  Stills from Patience: After Sebald

    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:

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. 

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 ...

    Curio No. 106 by meta4s   ***  

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Lyric from bullet points, from Immortal Diamond by Richard Rohr. Some things are musical right from a list.      

    AI extension as Prog. Interesting that it picks up the 6/4. 

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 ...