August 9ths

A piece made from two Beatles titles.

8/9/1968, Friday (Beatles Studio Diary)
            
Studio Two: “Not Guilty” and “Mother Nature’s Son” (White Album)

Not Guilty (8-9-1968) by meta4s

8/9/1997, Saturday

Albums should arise out of your current circumstances, where the world is, internal feelings, a conflation of variables, of looking back to see why something worked or didn’t work.

[8/9/2025: The pandemic was a shift for me, from postmodernist and conceptual work to more traditional work–my attempt at being metamodern or “remodern”, blending modernism and postmodernism. I still love postmodern approaches because it’s as foundational as traditional approaches. The “Sum” series is all about that].     

8/9/2001

Strategy: make very dense music at the macro level and add micro treatments, such that minor details of music are detected at the periphery but not central to the idea. The listener “expects” to hear things and the composer controls the expectations.

[8/9/2025: You can use “hints” that something might be coming up in the music.If music is mostly a flat landscape, with the same kinds of trees here and there, planting a different kind of tree will make a big difference. I always though that Yes’ sonic rambling was like this, where there might be 2 minutes of boring landscape and then some brilliant playing. But with AI methods we can’t even get to that point of controlling the syntax. But does anyone care at this point beyond the reaction video of Yes’ music?]

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Black-out lyric idea:
 

8/9/2010

In the ‘old days’ if you did something non-rhythmic, arrhythmic or just out of time you sucked as a musician. Now it’s a sign of genius. 

8/9/2020

Harmonic Cycling...Get on your harmonic cycle for some exercise--a harmonic etude of ii-I-Vs through the circle of 4ths.

The complete cycle modulating up in 4ths through all 12 keys:

D-/C/G
G-/F/C
C-/Bb/F
F-/Eb/Bb
Bb-/Ab/Eb
Eb-/Db/Ab
G#-/F#/C#
C#-/B/F#
F#-/E/B
B-/A/E
E-/D/A
A-/G/D  

 

8/9/2022

Miles Davis’ genius throughout his career was to remain curious and inculcate ideas of “The New” into jazz. This meant primarily being more of an electric and eclectic band, even delving into pop covers like “Time After Time”. To the extent that more traditional artists experiment with new genres, then they were doing what Miles did. 

8/9/2024 

Seed riff: 

 Curio extrapolated from it: