July 26ths

January 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"].  

7/26/2004

Hunger Pain

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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... 

7/26/2026: The AI slopper. How it interpreted it: Indie rock with a prominent post-punk influence. The arrangement features a clean electric guitar playing a repetitive, staccato eighth-note riff centered on a D major (E Mixolydian) tonality. A melodic electric bass guitar follows the root notes with a bright, picked tone. The drum kit maintains a steady 120 BPM tempo with a tight snare and consistent hi-hat eighth notes. A secondary electric guitar provides rhythmic accents with light overdrive.