August 8ths

8/8/2000

I had a dream I had visited a poet, an elderly woman about 60 years old. She was sitting on a bed with all of her incunabula scattered around her. There was one document that was dated 1942, and was a letter from a former lover. 

A cinematic treatment:

Former Lover (Orch.) (8-8-2000) by meta4s

A Short (Single):

8/8/2020

Caustic Shadows: 

 [Became the cover of Some August] 

 8/8/2024 

I have an eye for shadows in photography so I notice them right away. Similarly in music, I have an ear for “sound shadows” where something will coincide with something in real time, such as squeaking brakes fitting in with music that’s playing. If you don’t have a “camera” at the ready, you can’t capture them. This is how I think AI music should work—or it should be like a form of fishing: a lake is stocked with certain kinds of fish and you have to catch them. This way it becomes a sport that you like to do as opposed to ordering a fish sandwich from a website. 

Black-out lyric and riff:

 

8/8/2025

On lyrics: Anywhere you start with a lyric has to be filled in as the music is developed. Primarily, the words have to be singable, so they ideally have to be economical, without too many superfluous words or syllables. That's how I approach it, but other people do it differently. If you sing over existing tracks, those words can become the lyric with very little writing involved. Artists with strong personas can pull off just about anything, even words that you can't hear. It could be all mumbling.