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  9/15/1981             Death of Bill Evans. A dedication by Metheny/Mays. [9/15/2025: A piece I would cite as being emotional and elegiac. in the same way Barber's Adagio For Strings is, a bit maudlin at times., yet sincere].  9/15/1998 Every new technology creates new paradigms of thinking and spawns new kinds of art and ways of creating art. As Kevin Kelly says, “revolutions take place in what we make, how we make it, how we decide what to make in the nature of the economy that we make it in.”             [9/15/2024: I have begun to use AI in my work, which is my choice, not one that has been foisted on me. I take parts that I like and leave the rest. When there is so much pressure for ratings and popularity, we reflexively move toward it and perhaps away from those things that are “of a piece” with our own lives, with an eye on “the nature of the economy that we make it in.”] [9/15/2025: Why Do We Stop? ...

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.