November 11ths

11/11/1914

Wittgenstein: Letter to David Hume, who he thinks a lot about and wonders if it's mutual. Cannon fire heard from the workshop. 

This could be a score to this “scene”:

11/11/1999

Japanese blues pianist on TV: "I didn't know what I was singing about, but I liked the sound." (a testament that American pop music is primarily about sound). 

[11/11/2024. Back in January I riffed on whether sound is a song. Recently, I generated some music with AI based on some of my lyrics, and sent it to a friend. He liked the sound of it immediately but missed the point of the lyrics. Pop music, as opposed to classical, is all about tone and timbre, which is all about production. If you transcribed it into notation, it would be almost nothing. You probably couldn’t play it unplugged. It is nowhere near how the Beatles wrote songs. AI music is a music that comes from a speaker, having never been touched by a human. In this sense, in a strange way, is an “immaculate” music.] 

11/11/2004

The camera lies, or the camera finds the truth hiding behind the lies, sometimes the camera see better than the eye because it slows it down. In the end, will the camera lie or will the camera tell the truth? 

  

11/11/2021 

An Illuminated Riff: 

11/11/2022

Kind of a "VU Day": Ukranian troops swoop into Kherson. Zelensky sees it as a major victory.