October 19ths

10/19/1998

There has to be an intimate connection between the music and lyrics, such that when the vocal is removed you can hear how it plugs into the music. ( Like hearing an inner harmony).        

[10/19/2024: When I stopped singing my own songs around 2000, I kept writing them with lyrics, but they were left as instrumentals. I’m still doing it with the current music, driven by what I call “wordrums”, words that become the core rhythmic riff].

"Discuss lyric writing" 

10/19/2003, Sunday

Beauty finds itself and its beholder.

[Became Dynaxiom 0408, and today’s Songday, Beauty Finds Itself]

This is interesting because it was used as a Dynaxiom, which became a Songday, and also is music for a place, the Indiana Dunes, so it's cinematic in that way. They are also on Sundays.

Beauty Finds Itself (10-19-2003) by meta4s 

 Orchestral treatment:

Frequency Holder (Orch) by meta4s 

The AI-Generated version(s): 

 

10/19/2009, Sunday

First sunny day in weeks, 58 degrees 

We drove out to the lake and climbed the dunes. Conversations with several people there, a Bulgarian couple and guy my age that was a vociferous proponent of nuclear power. There was a strange absence of wildlife, or they were of the variety to be stealthily concealed in the brush, making no sound.  

 

10/19/2021

When we turn 30 we tend to stop caring about pop culture trends. I know I did. But the 90s were the beginning of culture wars. Neil Howe, one of the authors of The Fourth Turning had theorized that culture wars were a facet of the Third Turning (1984-2008), but it’s bled into the Fourth (2008-2028?). This is why I’m not convinced of the idea of the seasons of history: the power of suggestion is then too powerful to bring them on (“It’s the Fourth Turning, so we need to create all the events Fourth Turnings typically have so we can look forward to the Spring”).      

10/19/2023

Dynaxiom: In music, I want to do music. In art, I want to do art. But sometimes I  want to mix the two, but always keeping them apart.  

 Used as a lyric: 

 

10/19/2024, Saturday

The power of music is mostly personal, and you don’t necessarily have to “share it with the world”. Everything I’ve gotten out of music is personal. To the extent that it radiates outward is beyond what the universe is doing. I just keep a record...I keep making the marks. Emotionally, it can be anything, silly, sad, spiritual, atmospheric.

Fall installments: