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Peripherique

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Listen on Spotify What does funky bass music have to do with the 19th-century French sculptor Rodin?  Fragments. This is the best image that illustrates how I work when I produce albums.  I've always been a collector of ideas and have a good system for organizing them. It's essentially the process of serialization and generativity: making another piece in a series, transforming existing works into new ones, then framing them within some kind of a concept--as Rodin assembled fragments of sculptures.  I invent nothing, I rediscover.- Auguste Rodin "In later years, Rodin also used to tell the anecdote that the bust he originally intended to create had actually become a fragment, because as a young artist, he could not afford to heat his studio overnight. During a bitter cold winter night, the back of the 'Man with the Broken Nose' froze and broke off; this way from the bust only the face was left. Rodin officially favoured such accidental damages - at least he fa...

Polyanthea

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  Per the Rifts system, the Lydian mode for all 12 keys moves up in fourths and is associated with the months. November is C Lydian month. December is F Lydian, then starts again in January with Bb Lydian. February is Eb Lydian, and so on. Lead sheet:

Lyrics AI

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Tool that uses machine learning or an algorithm to map lyrics to a video file: https://autolyrixalign.hltnus.org/ Source Lyric (Mine) PERFECT WORLD (1994) In a perfect world We can have no walls But we hide behind a curtain In a restless world A government falls And leaves our futures quite uncertain... Result:

Phrasikleia

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  Another piece in E Locrian, with more of an ancient Greek vibe. Its "i" chord is diminished. I am also using its iv chord (Am) as well as its V (Bb), VI (C) and vii (Dm).

Locriane

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 A piece in E Locrian. Video:  https://youtu.be/px9Kl Hg6Yz4

We Did It Joe

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When I first saw Kamala's clip of her phoning Biden , I thought it had a musical quality, and here it is transcribed for history.