October 29ths
10/29/1998
Article in Guitar magazine about Andy Summers. He said that he uses a small tape recorder when he’s writing songs for an album. Too much tweaking in the beginning spoils the creative process. My experience is that even if you sketch ideas, you still have to get them down formally on a multi-track, and in the process, you’ve lost the original magic. What you have to do is multiple takes and edit out the bad stuff.
[“Embracing the Flow: For a creative work to truly succeed, there must be a period where the artist surrenders rational controls and becomes a "servant of the work rather than master of it". This surrender allows the work to take on an identity and dictate its own necessary future moves.” LLM: “Discuss spontaneity in the creative process”]
10/29/2000
Interesting: Tammy Wynette’s Stand By Your Man took 20 minutes to write and 30 years to defend. Ironic that she divorced 5 men. Her defense was that the song was about an ideal woman, the devoted wife of the 50s. She said, “The sad thing about happy endings is that there’s nothing to write about.”
[10/29/2024: This is always how utopian ideologies typically backfire. Utopias eventually seem unreal–or couldn’t have any real substance–certainly not for creating art].
10/29/2007
A lot of evil things happen because people are thinking this is what they ought to do. —Robert Wyatt (This is exactly what Philip Zimbardo talks about in his book The Lucifer Effect: We all succumb to the situations in which we are placed, taking control over our natural dispositions). "Discuss the Lucifer Effect"
10/29/2014
Tried out “Station in F” audio playing in headphones while going through the station. There are two versions: one darkly minor and the other brightly major. The Harlem stop on the Green Line has several key notes: F, C and the occasional _____. The turnstiles beep C-F and the vending machine beeps an F. As I was recording the tracks, the sound of the whining fan in my computer was Db and I made it one of the pitches.
10/29/2017
Music heard in a dream. (Music in dreams tends to be endless loops, essentially earworms, but arise from one’s inner sense of sound).
Cloud Sequence by meta4s
10/29/2022
In the long view, consider what your overall music (and life) philosophies are. What typically happens over time is that you tend to revisit older ways of working. But if there is a constant thread through everything, then you can work freely without "analysis/paralysis". Simply, find your own unique working style. (Pierre Boulez talked about this in his lectures, re the "damage of specialization").
"Our character, our individuality, directs us towards choices that match our own core, choices that change perhaps not with the seasons, but at least according to our needs: some experience that preoccupied us seems less urgent after a while, we had for some other one which in the moment will be able to offer us more." (Pierre Boulez. Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures)
LLM: "Discuss the connection between music and architecture"
10/29/2024
10/29/2025
Was reading a bit of Adam Mets’ Amplify book. It's interesting that when he approached the public after giving a speech about climate change, people would make comments about his band, and after concerts, people wouldn't ask about the band or the show, but would ask questions about climate change. It goes to show that people are all looking at things other than what you want them to see. It's very seldom that the general public will like what you like. Artists are always told to do things that please them personally, but you'll never get anybody to see your work the way that you do. The perfect example is Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, which he thinks is his masterpiece, but few really like.
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