May 23rds
Search more in the Diary Library 5/23/1912, Paris (Harry Kessler Diary) Kessler picks up Stravinsky and takes him to [D Miller] Craig’s, apparently who had been overwhelmed by so many people arriving that he was brusque with Stravinsky. Craig said he wanted to “rid music of everything that wasn’t rhythm.” [ The Rite of Spring premiered a year later. Perhaps Craig influenced him to do something more rhythmic] [Brian Eno once suggested in one of the “Swollen Appendices” that we could make music, but “leave the music out”, meaning that music was really more of an expression of culture, i.e. a postmodern phenomenon. This was probably happening in 1912 as well where something was to be left out–namely, melody and harmony. That’s exactly what happened 70 years later beginning hip-hop and rap. Now it seems to be wanting to go back in the other direction with metamodernism or remodernism]. [5/2026: AI music also leaves the music and the musicians...
