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January 29ths 7/29/2009 On alternate tunings: When you play in strange tunings over long periods, standard tuning becomes strange, and seems new again when you come back to it. The notion of something being ‘standard’ implies that it was once abandoned and returned to with a new perspective. It reminds me of something Brian Eno once said about going to an extreme then retreating to a more traditional approach. That’s the payoff of experimentation. [The musical equivalent is the polyrhythm such as 2 against 3 or 3 against 4, or isomelodies and isorhythms] . Black-out lyric and the rhythms in the words: 7/29/2023 7/29/2023 7/29/2024 7/29/2025 If you do both manual creativity and AI-assisted creativity, it’s probably a better idea to make something manually first, and then run it through AI and see what it can come up with. The problem I’ve had, especially with music, is that the AI-generated music tends to creat...
