December 13ths

12/13/1999

Studio: Vocals on Wax Museum--my last song of the 20th century.

Watch battery died. Went to same shop that inspired the piece, Time Warp. Great name: "Time Warp Clock Shop". Time on my watch when it stopped was 3:47, the same time it started when the new battery was put in and was 3:47. I didn't even have to change the time. Interesting synchronicity.

On horizon: Caves, Access Grids, Active Murals. 

[12/13/2024@25: Advent of VR] 

12/13/2001 
            
Program on NPR on music of Madagascar. They said one of the goals in their music is to make it sound like fast talking. Then you listen to their language and you can see the connection.

[12/13/2025: I think the best bottom-up way to be musical is to start with rhythms, and language can supply it. See: The Singing Neanderthals 
 

12/13/2016

The cashier at a Whole Foods, probably around 18, commented that she preferred 50s music over 70s music. What was appealing about them? Perhaps it’s not the song but what they represent in a nostalgic sense. Songs are evergreen in some ways when people tire of bare trees.  

[12/2024: in The Endless Refrain by David Rowell he argues that music runs only on nostalgia now. This is because experimentation in music is not popular at the moment. You couldn’t have a mid-60s avant-garde in 2024 because there’s no zeitgeist.].

12/13/2023

I’m reminded of an interview with the late Malcolm McLaren, former manager of the Sex Pistols where he was talking about CDs being execrable things compared to vinyl. I wonder—would anybody ever have a collection of smartphone apps that became vintage in some way? You’d be collecting just the thumbnails or screenshots of them. It would be like having a vinyl record collection with just the covers with no vinyl. 

12/13/2024

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 An AI-generated song from these cryptic lyrics:

 

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Shortet No. 12 generated from it: 

12/13/2046

(Tony Townes Diary) 

Went to retrospective of NeuroArt with Neone: Neuroart@10 Deepfake Dreams. How 2024 was a sea change. The ones I really like are the Alpha Channels as “wormholes” into the past. Areas of transparency into the past and future are very cool!     

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"Neuroart is closely associated with Art by Algorithm, where entire artistic pieces are composed from large databases of elements, and creativity is defined by the design of the "seeds" or algorithms used. The corporate world views it as a profitable enterprise; for instance, corporate art greed attempts to immortalize the artist Anthony Townes as a neuroart machine."

"Discuss neuroart"