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September 12ths

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A Photographs For Music video (and Music For Places ) using the controversial photo taken in Konskie Poland in September 12, 1939 showing a distraught Leni Riefenstahl, wearing a military uniform, ostensibly reacting to the execution of civilians after a scuffle with police. But we don't know the full context.    9/12/2005         Idea: Analysis of song lyrics from 1900-2000 showing how ideas of love, suffering, and social commentary were treated in song lyrics. [9/12/2025: Definitely an interesting use of AI ( Perplexity.ai )  9/12/2022 There used to be a philosophy that being able to compose was only possible once the musician’s skills had matured. I never understood it because as skills develop you can use them compositionally. Once you know all the major scales and know the relative minors, and perhaps the modes, you can use them to build something. The musician might stop with the skills but the artist proceeds to shape something original....

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.                                        

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.  

Shafts

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Chord Tones For the Bird Bones

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 AI-generated.    

Expecting the Call (AI Jazz)

A "Mingused" blues, harmonizing a blues scale with extended chords. Amazing how good the AI spins are, even with the free model. It has a hard time sussing the chords, but then learns them.  

Universal Speech Rhythms

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    The rhythmic grouping of eighth-quarter-eighth (or quarter-eighth-eighth or eighth-eighth-quarter) beginning on a downbeat is one of the most common speech rhythms, probably in any language. Displacing them an eighth note in either direction makes the words unintelligible ("ships arrive" becomes "ships A-rrive", "jumbo jet" becomes "jumBO jet"), but there are other words that could be mapped to that rhythm, e.g. "container". Obviously it doesn't matter in instrumental music, but speech rhythms can become rhythmic building blocks. Some words with the 8-4-8 (or 8-8-4) schema: Ships arrive Walk the streets In my youth Got around Thinking that Better than Still alive

Curio No. 103

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  Slippery Slope , based on Dynaxiom 2878. The vibe is Barrett-era Floyd with the characteristic descending chromatic lines. *** How Suno spins it: