May 3rds
5/3/2006 A lot of pop music is just playing a cliche really well. [5/3/2026: AI music is full of these cliches but so far I haven't detected anything that sounds exactly the same. On guitar, there is a fairly big set of cliche riffs that you'll always want to use]. 5/3/2017 I used to love to dance before I became a musician. Sometimes I find myself reacting with music rhythmically, but it’s not dancing. Even in classical there are some pieces you can dance to, and are written specifically as dances (Gigue, Gavotte). The Pulcinella Suite by Stravinsky is very “danceable” in some sections. Once you’ve done lots of writing you can lose your ability to dance. Words and music are its cure. Since music composition is more like writing words, the composer gets stuck in the frontal lobe. [5/3/2024: I still think words and music are a “cure”. There is a primal connection between the two, as evidenced by aphasia patients still able to recall music. Very often I’ll get song ideas from re...
