Just the Blue Channel of a Jazz Guitar
Just the Blue Channel of a Jazz Guitar. Catching the morning sun across my L40. #2019 #angles #curves #shadows
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Johnnie's Blue
Johnnie's Blue 3300x4200 px (11x17 in) Grayscale (blue channel split) Request a Print A popular haunt in Elmwood Park Illinois. I love this angular roadside diner architecture from the 1950s that is still around. Very often even the buildings were built on an angle on the lot. A friend said it reminded him of Hopper's "Nighthawks". It reminds me of Ruscha's "Standard Oil". #2019 #black&white
Rifts
Solo piano improvisations in the Lydian mode for all 12 keys, following the circle of fourths. *** The purpose of the exercise was to see what I could do manually as an improvisation using a constraint (the Lydian Mode), then create an algorithm to do the same thing. Musical improvisation is one of the highest forms of free will. It will show what is pure free will, simply playing anything on the piano for example. Someone who knows how to play will make some kind of coherent music. Someone who has hardly touched a piano may play on the black keys. The acid test is whether it has musical value. AI could be used to do the same thing and would sound like music, as it has a basic instruction. In contrast, the programming to do the same thing seems completely unrewarding. Even though my piano skills are mediocre, and my implicit knowledge of music well-developed, the music that is human-made is good enough for me. If a non-musician can do it bette...