June 15ths

 6/15/1886

(Thomas Sullivan)

Silence becomes survival. English words carry less risk than native tongues amid demonization.    

6/15/2021

One of the problems I have with using too much programming in music is that I tend to get bogged down in things that aren’t of a musical nature. We have to decide where we want to focus our problem solving so that it’s not interfering with creativity. They can’t be co-mingled as they’re in conflict more than they are in having similarities. That’s the problem I have with using too much AI in music: we’re too focused on the data and programming.

[6/15/2025: Programming is no longer an issue–it’s the writing of prompts, which I find kind of strange in music, e.g. "Begin with a soft ambient intro, gradually layer in warm bass tones, and introduce a soaring lead melody around the 1-minute mark…". This is what writing on a score is. This was solved by notation already. It allows people to have AI do the grocery shopping for something they have a taste for, then follow all the instructions linearly. No creativity necessary except how you imagine it should turn out].      

6/15/2024

This is derived from a passage in W.G. Sebald's Rings of Saturn, that I released in 2018. This is another possible version.

The vault of the sky
Was empty and blue
Shingle bank is broken

I had long left the beach fishermen behind me when, in the early afternoon, I reached Benacre Broad, a lake of brackish water beyond a bank of shingle halfway between Lowestoft and Southwold. The lake is encircled by deciduous woodland that is now dying, owing to the steady erosion of the coastline by the sea. Doubtless it is only a matter of time before one stormy night the shingle bank is broken, and the appearance of the entire area changes. But that day, as I sat on the tranquil shore, it was possible to believe one was gazing into eternity. The veils of mist that drifted inland that morning had cleared, the vault of the sky was empty and blue, not the slightest breeze was stirring, the trees looked painted, and not a single bird flew across the velvet-brown water. It was as if the world were under a bell jar, until great cumulus clouds brewed up out of the west casting a grey shadow upon the earth. (p. 59)

Vault of the Sky (6-15) by meta4s

6/15/2025

Dynaxiom draft: You know innovation is effective when lots of people are doing or using something, or are accepting it as a new norm. It won't necessarily be good or what you think is innovative. The New just is.

Long walk with SLR--branches and other parts of trees wrapped around chain link at Mills Park. You see this everywhere and is perhaps a cliche, but they are still good metaphors. 

 

What's continually interesting about using Google Notebook is that it gives you feedback on your ideas, but you have to comment on them. My thinking is always better than its "thinking". Human thought, while still based on patterns, isn't a patterning of words, even though language precedes the construction of thoughts. Sometimes I will connect one axiom to another, but LLMs are always doing that, and not what I want.]

As an experiment I am now releasing Dynaxiom entries in groups of ten as a robot podcast. The entries include my comments, so the analyses take them into account. But the entries themselves are mostly short.