February 15ths

2/15/1999

Gorgeous, 55°.

Stopped at library and picked up Jacques Attali book Noise: The Political Economy of Music and Alexander Luria’s The Mind of a Mnemonist.

At studio: New vocals on Smooth Blue Lake and Bottom of the Sea.

2/15/2018

Dream: I was in two cities at once: An American city and a city that I was thinking was somewhere in Egypt, divided by a muddy river. I sat on a veranda on the river and looked across to a dense wall of mud-built structures, and there was one man in a white robe leaning out a window looking at me. Gradually, the sun began to set across the river when I was still in bright sunlight. It was if there were two worlds side-by-side, one spinning at a different rate.

[An AI-generated song based on the dream]:

 

2/15/2025

What my chatbot tells me when I ask, “What is an example of metamodernism in music?”: “An example of metamodernism in music would be the idea of creating a “15-minute conceptual album” that revives elements of the avant-garde while also incorporating modern sensibilities. As the blog post notes, “the conceptual album can’t even be possible in the current climate where the new ideas must be under 60 seconds.” (Well, there’s Sum IV.1...)

Songday based on 2/15 entries using titles of two older songs:

Smooth Blue Lake (2/15/1999) by meta4s

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