April 26ths

 

"Behavior" is an "upbeat" word, and "structure" is staccato, which results in a metal feel. It is also onomatopoeic in the way the the opening phrase was in Beethoven's 5th as a "knock on the door". Onomatopoeia is thought to be the origin of language--but so is music. (4/26/1937 was the attack on Guernica)

4/26/2001

Program on "blurred boundaries" between humans and animals, now that we know how similar we are, but yet so different. Interesting: Behavior as a structure.

The possible beginning (or end) for a possible orchestral treatment:

4/26/2009 

4/26/2021

Apparently there’s this pop group in in Russia called Cream Soda that writes music using AI and to create their videos. They said that “the sentence or the lyric is the canvas”, which I thought was an interesting metaphor. Their videos are created by having a neural network go out on Google and pull in images then run a filter on them of some kind. I wonder how AI as used in music is going to evolve because I haven't seen much an evolvement over the last five years, perhaps because people aren't using
It. Maybe its use and popularity will spur innovation and development. 

[4/26/2025: What a difference 4 years makes]. 

4/26/2022

I’ve tried writing music with AI because it’s The New but I can’t stand doing it for more than 30 minutes. I can force myself to intentionally continue with it, but if free will is fully functioning, abandoning it for something more joyful and enriching would seem more intentional. 

 [4/26/2025: What a difference 3 years makes. Generating music with AI can be pretty interesting and fun. But I like to balance it out by writing music manually, even for orchestras and ensembles. Sometimes you can integrate the melodies and riffs from the generated music]. 

4/26/2037

(Tony Townes Diary)

Centennial of the Guernica massacre, an event which made Picasso a political artist.
            
4/26/2046, Berlin

(Neone’s Diary) 

Alex Cole, a guitar player friend of Jon has joined the session to add guitar parts to “Plastic Cage.” Technically Neone is still working on material for Side A of the album. Come May 1, any material (even songs in progress pre-DOI) will be transformed accordingly. This is definitely a post-DOI Side B track, but with 4 more days as a mortal, anything she may do with this track will have a “Side A” vibe. 

Neone’s studio dates in the story