October 20ths

10/20/1998            
    
Interview on NPR with the heart surgeon, Dr. Oz who operated on guitarist Johnny Copland. He gets deeply involved with the care of his patients, even down to the music that’s played in the operating room. He said that the music should be a “healing” music, but not necessarily New Age.   
         
[10/20/2024: In Daniel Levitin’s recent book I Heard There Was A Secret Chord, he posits how AI would be used to select music based on various contexts, and will be a part of meds: “When you’re sick or recovering from injury, music will be similarly selected, just for you, in the hospital and the clinic, and your caregivers will send you home with it... ”

[10/20/2025: What a difference 27 years makes in terms of Oz’s current views on Medicaid.] https://www.perplexity.ai/search/summarize-recent-news-involvin-mrVEYVh0RTy3zg_B6uq2qA#1     

10/20/2019            

I am intrigued by the idea of the automated real-time, in-flow generation of text. I can see how this can work in music as well, where the current bar fills in the next x-number of bars, then reacts in real-time to what you’re playing in real-time...

[10/20/2025: “In-flow generation of text” is essentially how music LLMs are trained to predict sequences. I still don’t like the idea of complete automation because it isn’t rigorous enough and can’t produce real flow experiences.]         

10/20/2024 

What I want for the Songday System is a custom LLM that will take a day’s entries and map them over a rhythm–for example, using the rhythm of the Alan Watts quote. This means finding all the words that properly map over the syllabic structure. After that’s done then I can tweak it. This is how I want to use AI. If AI doesn’t produce anything usable, then you’re back to manual creativity.

 

From Rampage to Improve the World 

Alan Watts (10/20/2024) by meta4s 

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Open House Chicago--attended only 2 sites: Astor Club (Old Maxim's) and former Hemingway apartment. Passed by the Fischer Building (1209 N State), which I love. I wish it was on the list every year.