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August 20ths

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8/20/1823  Anne Lister’s journal quoting Rousseau: “I am an enigma even to myself and do excite my own curiosity” 8/20/1998 Interview with Milton Babbitt. He was talking about academics in music and how he hated it. [8/20/2025: As much as I use theory, I’m always wary of getting into jousting matches about it on social media. All domains have their theory and it’s nice shop-talk, but you don’t want to be a theoritician. I’m a parallel octaves scofflaw and who really cares when no one notices it as a listener? It was one of the reasons that I stopped writing songs in the 90s. I wanted it to have no theory, or as Eno says, “leave the music out”. I’ve been putting it back in lately. I might leave it out again in the future. One of the good things about knowing music theory is that you can leave it out for artistic effect, and do something postmodern. I think ambient music is a postmodern phenomenon].      8/20/2016        Jazz seems to be more popula...

Function Before Form

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  Charles Sheeler - Industrial Study No. 2, 1935   8/19/2024  Abstracted lines from 8/19 diary entries: Function before form Start with a basic sound Think that they were art Looking at them close and far Roman or Egyptian art Brightly-colored African art Going back to nature Going back to the roots   ***  Orchestral:  8/19/2026 (AI Version):

Atomic Disease

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8/18/1948 (Jack Kerouac Journal--paraphrased) Jack goes to New York with Tom, jazz club for bop, smoked pot, and pondered epigonism [an imitation of an artist by a subsequent generation], existence of “atomic disease”: “There is something definitely afoot, a madness, one not unlike the late Roman cult-madnesses.”                                   Run through AI:  

Tableau

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No It's a No-No

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TV Eclipse

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 If you can't attend an Eclipse you can always take pictures of the TV (Hipstamatic)     

The Second Coming of Elvis

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Music For Places V (Boden Sea)

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Blue Paintings

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Curio No. 64

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8/12/2017

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  Inequality