April 10ths

4/10/2025: Choir added 

 

 Song for April 10, derived from 4/10 entries, and using a "common chord progression".

4/10/1996

I've always felt that the best songs start from text. In this case, Wendy's lyric suggested a slow tempo in a minor key. I already had a chord sequence idea that was looking for a lyric and I married the two together. 

4/10/2022

Music doesn't have an equivalent for "representational" because it doesn't represent anything in nature, as a portrait or landscape can. Music is almost entirely abstract, however, songs with lyrics are representational in the sense that they tell stories. Instrumental music is fundamentally abstract and conceptual, which is what makes it unique and interesting in its own right.

4/10/2023

"Truly original" tends to move towards the esoteric and eccentric, and copying, or being inspired by something traditional, makes it more viable. It still amazes me how much people still like very common chord progressions.

The "lyric":

Anything in nature, as a portrait or a landscape
 Is interesting in its own right
Truly original
Esoteric and eccentric
Married the two together

4/10/2025

Now that a lot of artists and musicians are using AI in the flow of their work, I think people will want to get on board and force themselves to use it, and it won’t have good results. I suppose if you force yourself to use a tool as an experiment to see what might happen, some happy accidents might occur. But I’m wary of spending a whole career looking for happy accidents and using them as a crutch.