November 1sts
11/1/1941
Moonrise, Hernandez is taken by Ansel Adams from a shoulder of highway US 84/US 285 in New Mexico.
Became a track on Music For Places V:
AI-generated versions with me playing bass and keyboard parts against them, as a "hybrid" production.
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[11/1/2025: The music people listened to in 1941 was either classical, folk, or jazz. The whole idea of "ambience" comes from how films began being padded with atmosphere once synths started to be used].
"Ansel Adams was deeply trained in classical music and initially envisioned a career as a concert pianist before turning to photography. His immersion in music began at age 12, inspired by his neighbor Henry Cowell, who would later become a renowned avant-garde composer. Adams taught himself to play and read music, receiving lessons from Cowell and other distinguished teachers throughout his adolescence." [More]
11/1/1944
[Norman Lewis - Naples 44]
The miserable news is that the counterintelligence funds are to be reduced to 400 lire, a lire per week per section member. The meanness impelling this decision leaves us stunned.
11/1/2005
Had this thought while on walk: "Half the world will sleep through the end of the world". At the same time I overheard a woman say "the baby was sleeping". (A "thinkronicity")
We're now watching more videos and listening to more audio than we are going through lines of text. The metaverse could change that. Reading long-form content will be too difficult and consequently there will be very little text. We'll be listening and watching and interacting--perhaps too much.
11/1/2022
The baroque and classical periods are pop music's parentage but only marginally. The fact that it has that connection gives it a "higher quality". Pop music can't escape its confines, so even if it became more theoretically sophisticated it wouldn't be pop music. That's the thing with influence: take just enough and leave the rest....
[11/1/2024: I realized I learned music initially through magazines: Bass Player, Guitar Player, Keyboard Player, as was everyone else. I never thought I could be a columnist. What is missing now is humility about art forms. Jazz always had that].
11/1/2024
Music is unique in that it remains hidden until we play it or perform it, unlike an artwork that is within view. A record collection objectifies the intangibility of sound. Album art with song lists and credits reminds us where the songs are.” Album art used to typically be the object that would complete the music listening experience, not unlike spines of books on a shelf remind us of what’s in them, or how we organize them on a shelf. Accumulations of objects can become useful lists if we spend the time organizing them.
11/1/2025
Cultural Center for Architecture Biennial exhibits. Interesting: Field Harp by Firat Erdim, especially that the form, which looks like a disassembled piano or loom (or guns!), is actually a wind harp. I liked how the audio bleeding in from the other exhibits was a kind of "atmosphere generation"
11/1/2026
Interesting: Every morning before working on East of Eden, Steinbeck wrote a letter to his editor, which allowed him to explore plotlines, character development, and other ideas before committing them. A good way to write lyrics is to simply write anything. There is no such thing as a blank page that can stay blank for long.
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