July 28ths

 

7/28/2021

I get a certain cognitive lift from going back to writing things down manually. I prefer the old way of inputting the notes and then playing it. It's a really great way of recycling things that were just fine the way they were. They didn't need innovation. 

7/28/2022

Tradition is epigenetic in many ways which is in constant conflict with modern life. There can be cultural traditions and individual traditions which arise from the arc of one’s life. Making music is a tradition for me but it wasn’t for my family. It’s traditional for Boomers to have grown up with both the family values of the 1950s and the individualistic cultural values of the 1960s. They have since become the tectonic plates of 21st century society, now with a reactivation of East versus West philosophies. 

7/28/2024

Another AI book, AI Mirror. It’s the new self-help genre. I was thinking that AI art and music is the first time an esoteric scientific art has become pop so quickly, and has no connection to the avant-garde with artists making eccentric experimental art like Eno in the 70s. Computer scientists with peripheral interests in the arts and humanities tend to be oblivious to the righteous and sacred. I would be interested in writers who have some knowledge of the SciArt world, which would be far more engaging.

"And when we can no longer know ourselves, we can no longer govern ourselves. In that moment, we will have surrendered our own agency, our collective human capacity for self-determination. not because we won't have it, but because we will not see it in the mirror."

[This relates to mirror art, that which looks at the reflection of society, as opposed to window art, which looks out into the future and into reality and see what's really possible in terms of imagination. Mirror art is driven by what we think we imagine, which is distinctly different from imagination itself. The former is an illusion.]

[Excerpt Library: AI]