July 26ths

7/26/1997            

Music strategies: abstraction-sex; arrangement-contrast tempi; treatments-Indian drone; mood/texture-distorted/grainy; Key-G# minor; meter-5/8; topic-the sea.            

[7/26/2024: AI could never do this]

[7/26/2025: Prompt: A love song in 6/8 that begins slowly and gradually increases in intensity, Romantic, Mysterious, Male Vocals, Bass, Drums, Acoustic Guitar, Electric Guitar, Piano, Steady, Pulsing. It makes my point. The music is syrupy because my lyrics are syrupy. But I have a version that is in fact in 6/8. The way AI seems to work is that it “sniffs” the words and finds stems that fit the words. AI can't come close to real music, but what it can create is "palatable"]. 

Did search on Web Memorials idea. A few sites, very limited pages. Memorials that are indexed by interests, etc. would be more interesting. They could include sound files of deceased musicians and image files of artists. You could have “memorials of the living” as well.        

[7/26/2024: This is essentially what YouTube has become for artists and musicians who have passed on. In 1997, streaming video was the biggest dream on the web, even though very few people were on it.]     

 7/26/2004

Hunger Pain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Blogging is such a big thing now. News is now more opinion than fact (which can be more interesting because it engages people to speak freely.)     

7/26/2007

Possible black-out lyrics:

 

 Rhythmic seed: 

 

 

7/26/2023            

New word: Artician. Someone who works on music visually. (Someone already thought of it—if something rhymes or is otherwise clever, someone thought of it).            

Riff: If you gave everyone the same exact tools to make something, what would be the criteria that would make one of them successful?

[7/26/2025: AI is that tool. In music, it is bots that are making things appear successful. Generally, I think the entire internet, perhaps even from its early days, is about gaming it to get high ratings.]
 

7/26/2024

Today's Songday is based on the 7/26/1896 William James letter To Mrs. James: “Yesterday was a beautiful day, and I sailed an hour and a half down the Lake again to “Celoron,” “America’s greatest pleasure resort, in other words popcorn and peep-show place. A sort of Midway-Pleasance in the wilderness-supported Heaven knows how, so far from any human habitation...” A paean to solitude, so far... 

So Far (7-26-1896) by meta4s