December 25ths

12/25/1924

 

Can't get any better than this--Christmas amongst architects and musicians. 

12/25/1997
            
A Reverend said that he thought that dancing was even more powerful than language in terms of shared spiritual experience, where all muscles are moving together. 

Excerpt Library (Music): "Discuss dancing as a manifestation of the spiritual." 

12/25/2000

Christmas solar eclipse this morning at 11:20. Everything bathed in dim sunlight. There won't be another Christmas eclipse until the year 2307. An excellent example of random variation, where certain objects interact at specific points in time, and happen at unique moments.

12/25/2003

Film:  Lovely and Amazing.

12/25/2006

James Brown died. He was the guy that popularized the notion of “The One” and awareness (and possibility) where lots of syncopation in music, and the treatments of all instruments as percussion instruments. (Bass is really a tuned drum). 

12/25/2022

Interesting: Christmas African Drumming (Santeria Christmas) 

12/25/2024

12/25/2025

There's a difference between music for music's sake and music for recording's sake, or AI's sake. It has a connection with the whole robot idea and how real pets interact with robot pets: at first, they are annoyed by them, and then they develop a relationship--even though the organic factors aren't there. I've developed that same kind of relationship with AI music. It's sometimes difficult to interact with in real time because it's just churned up samples in an LLM appearing to be music. You look under the hood, and it's just a plastic replica of an engine, which is now essentially just a battery. New technologies always challenge the idea of our relationships with the world and the objects in it. From Rob Kitchin's Code/Space: "Coded objects are objects that are reliant on software to perform as designed. Coded machine-readable objects might not have any software embedded in them but rely on external code to function." AI music runs on a code other than music theory. Potentially, you could write a prompt to say "Use modal interchange in the harmony" and it will give you bVII, bIII and bVI chords in the mix--or "put chromatic extensions on every chord" and you'd get jazz.

We have to shift with the paradigm shifts.