June 20ths

6/20/2004

Technology frees us from the physical, tactile senses, such that it is no longer necessary to play a musical instrument to make music. It also frees us from having to remember things, as they are relegated to stored data rather than encoded memory in the brain. Software will obviate our natural abilities and will devolve from the species. 

[6/20/2025: AI will certainly do this. 16 year-olds aren’t buying instruments because the fascination isn’t there. AI is the new rock ‘n’ roll]. 

6/20/2014 

Big data and music haven’t hooked up yet but they’ve been checking each other out. David Cope saw this coming in 1980. If music is essentially a binary phenomenon, then it can be treated like all other binary data. Just as an image can be condensed into 128 pixels and still be identifiable, perhaps it can work the same for music. It might be possible to break musical syntax into small chunks and reassemble them so that they sort of sound like the original. It’s like the posterization of an image using the Photoshop cutout effect. If you know the original, the cutout can be recognized.    

[6/20/2025: AI-generated music is a kind of “posterization” of music].         

6/20/2024 

 

The string arrangement for the song in progress. 

Heaven As Home (Strings) by meta4s

 

The Short 

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Caroline Myss: "This is fate or destiny–when you require that personal intuition–and this is when you start saying, "Is there anyone out there who can talk to me? I don't want a conversation–I just want an [opportunity], and this is where you can get to the next level, is what the mystics would say is revelation, where heaven comes to you–we don't get to go there unescorted. We don't get to blast our way past the door. In the language of any of the great mystics, heaven comes for you and they select you, like in the Course in Miracles you become someone like Helen Schucman. They selected Helen. But she didn't even believe she did it. Heaven has a wisdom that knows this is perfect."