Lee Barry Composition Diary

  An example of a re-use of other writing, in this case a response to a Quora post about sailing around the globe, then used as a metaphor for being "On the Road".  Frontiers by Lee Barry The Road by meta4s *** The AI versions. Horrible. This is an example where AI music just doesn't deliver. It's produced, as opposed to my bedroom version, but the music itself sucks. It doesn't understand 12/8 feel. The prompt: A 12/8 blues shuffle with a distinct Americana vibe, building intensity up until the outro vamp, trading solos on guitar and sax , R&B, Male Vocals, Choir, Harmonized Vocals, Bass, Drums, Electric Guitar, Piano, Organ, Saxophone, Keyboard, Steel Guitar  

  A "scoring" of Michael Heizer's "City" complex in Nevada. (Music For Places II) From a lecture by the art historian Kirk Varnedoe: "Part of my art is based on an awareness that we live in a nuclear era," Heizer says in an interview in 1984. "We're probably living at the end of civilization." His project in the Nevada desert, a great monumental series of abstract forms, equates the erosive force of centuries— the blunting of ruins and grand residues of past societies—with the explosive force of the present. He makes clear that Complex One is situated close to a nuclear blast site, and that its angled front wall is designed to serve as a blast shield, deflecting the power of a nuclear bomb." Heizer's elemental forms collapse time into a view colored by a millennial, almost apocalyptic sense of the present.  Lap Steel Mix: