July 18ths

January 18ths 

7/18/2015

New Kithara, 19.75 x 25.25 inches, acrylic and pastel on paper.

Abstract expressionist painting partially inspired by the alternately-tuned instruments of Harry Partch.  

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

7/18/2024

A year ago Montpelier Vermont was hit with catastrophic flooding. What’s particularly interesting about this footage is that it is full of keynotes and rhythms produced by the various alarms. All of them fit under a drone in A minor. 

Revisited my old Music Ideas list from the 90s. This is #75 "She's A Star". I think the idea at the time was that the word "star" would have a dissonant interval in it. This would be the intro, a la You Can't Always Get You Want, but would be a fast EDM, not classic rock. In the end, both she (and he) are "diminished".

Female Voices

She's a star
She's our star
She's a star
He's so glam
She's a star
She's our star!
She's a star

Male Voices

He's our Tzar
He's our man
He's so glam
He's a Tsar
He's a star!
He's a star 

AI Experiments.

 

7/18/2025

Now with most of us using generative AI to some extent–or at least seeing it everyday, we’ve normalized it. Normalizing requires that suspension of disbelief that AI-generated content could actually be good. But it’s all arising from anonymous fragments. In 20 years we might be nostalgic for the music of our youth, but there might not be a real artist associated with it: we don’t know who sang it or played guitar or bass on it. There will be no interviews or documentaries…