April 22nds

Abstractions from today, Earth Day"

4/22/1817, Halifax (Anne Lister Diary)

Bought Droiiet's flute piece God Save The King. Apparently the composer made 20 guineas a week playing around London. 

4/22/1906, Stanford, San Francisco, Sunday (6 days after the earthquake)

(William James Correspondence)

To Miss Frances R. Morse:

"...Well, when I lay in bed at about half-past five that morning, wide-awake, and the room began to sway, my first thought was, "Here's Bakewell's earthquake, after all"; and when it went crescendo and reached fortissimo in less than half a minute, and the room was shaken like a rat by a terrier, with the most vicious expression you can possibly imagine, it was to my mind absolutely an entity that had been waiting all this time holding back its activity, but at last saying, "Now, go it!" and it was impossible not to conceive it as animated by a will, so vicious was the temper displayed—everything down, in the room, that could go down, bureaus, etc., etc., and the shaking so rapid and vehement. All the while no fear, only admiration for the way a wooden house could prove its elasticity, and glee over the vividness of the manner in which such an "abstract idea" as "earthquake" could verify itself into sensible reality. In a couple of minutes everybody was in the street, and then we saw, what I hadn't suspected in my room, the extent of the damage. Wooden houses almost all intact, but every chimney down but one or two, and the higher University buildings largely piles of ruins. Gabble and babble, till at last automobiles brought the dreadful news from San Francisco.  

4/22/1997

Anton did vocal on Hot New Earth (on Earth Day!)   

4/22/2000

Early morning raid to rescue Elian Gonzales. AP photographer takes “famous photo” of Elian and uncle hunkered in a closet with the Marshall pointing gun directly at them. Show of force or use of force? 

4/22/2004 

Idea: Series of 12 photographs for each musical interval: unison, minor second, major second, minor third, major third, etc. (This eventually became Interval Cubes (2013). 

4/22/2005         
 
A music education doesn’t necessarily have to include written music. Classical Indian music is taught directly by the guru to the disciple rather than by the notation method used in the West. In the modern world, the metaphor of “the guru” is “digital media” and “the disciple” is the rabid fan with a fast internet connection, an iPod, and a cell phone. (At this point, we didn’t know they would all merge in two year's time). 

4/22/2023

Learning music theory will in fact re-limit (or delimit) the flow of ideas. Ideally you will use it for those ideas where knowledge and skill is required. Otherwise, creativity (now) has no bounds. Even if you work with beats and samples, one element will put constraints on others. An example would be if your idea is in 12/8 and other beats are in 4/4—or you only know 4/4. The 12/8 idea must then conform. Personally I find it frustrating when the limitations of technology force me to make things I don’t really want to make.   

4/22/2046, Berlin

Neone is at Hansa, one week before her DOI. The band is working on three songs: “The I and the Me”, “Corner of You” and “Time Before Time.” The anechoic chamber was used as an experiment. She came up with a good lyric: “I’m trapped in a star that’s collapsed, not even sound can escape.”