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9/14/2004             Idea: a photo blog.     9/14/2005  The Katrina catastrophe also makes you think about the ultimate demise of modern civilization. This makes you believe we are heading inexorably towards it. [9/14/2026: Perhaps humans are naturally wired for doom and gloom, The transhumanist David Pearce asserts that most of us have a bias towards being depressed, and is that way by design, so as to keep us on the hedonic treadmill. If we were optimistic all the time we wouldn't be vigilant]. 9/14/2011             It is seldom the case that ideas continue to belong to the progenitor. And why would we want them to? Beethoven might be considered a person whose ideas were epochal, but he was merely following the rule book or ‘Best Practices’ of composition, built on compositional methods blazed by Mozart and his elders. After Beethoven died, his music endured, and the supporting theories continue...

Dynaxiom 3653

Technology is always a part of the flow. (Once you have a skill and you've used it for decades you can always hop back on the bike, unlike many things we have done with computers. You can learn software, but the software is always requiring updating your knowledge of its new functions. If you want to develop skill for a lifetime, choose the more manual skills that don't involve tools that are always changing. Even new power tools will get in the way if using your manual skill because you have to stop and devote attention to them. I have yet to learn the Dorico software which replaced Finale. If for some reason Finale stopped working I could still continue writing manually, but it would be going back to the stone age, and I'd have to trade my creative time with software training. So the happy medium is to have just enough skill with a range of new and old tools. Most artists need some kind of handicap assistance. AI is another tool that assists, just as MIDI did for me in th...

8/29/2026

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Curio No. 109

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  Stills of Strange Days (1995) and Metropolis *** AI Gens:  Seed:  

0912 Riffs

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Curio No. 61

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  Hans Namath photo of Jackson Pollock over Rubens' The Death of Decius Mus   AI Gens:

0911 Riffs

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 It's amazing what you can do with just a rap into a phone with just a scribbled idea.                                        

Heaven 11

A jazz head comprised of altered V-I cadences moving up in 4ths, using the raised 4th/11th as the altered note. They can be played as polychords (A/G, D/C, etc.) in a group situation, where the keyboards play the bottom triad and guitars play the top triad. Chord scales would be Lydian and Lyxian (a hybrid of Lydian and Mixolydian), or pentatonics.  Play at Musecore AI version, almost how it would sound with horns, I can't attest if it's following the changes, but the piece is such that attempting to play it might sound interesting, focusing on the what's in front of the slash, while the bass plays what's behind it--maybe the fifth

Curio No. 48

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The Babylonian Marriage Market -- Edwin Long + Still from the Babylon film   Seed:   

0909 Sacred Ground

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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.