February 28ths

2/28/1976

From: "Bowie: Now I'm A Businessman"

"...This time - boosted by the success of his Fame single all the attention he has received in the past four years - Bowie played the 14,000 seat Cow Palace (the city's largest rock hall) and the response was phenomenal.

Though his 90-minute set started slowly as Bowie concentrated on new material, he worked up such an enthusiasm in the arena with his versions of such early, well-known works as Changes, Rebel Rebel and Jean Genie that a rare thing happened after the first, rather obligatory encore."

2/28/1998

Idea: Music for retirement communities.

2/28/1999

Worked most of the day on string arrangement for Bottom of the Sea. This is strange because I haven’t notated anything in years. It’s great practice but the busy work aspect of it diverts your attention away from the artistic element of what you’re doing. It’s amazing how classical composers do it. 

2/28/2000

Interview on NPR with Bob Moog. He said that even though he spent most of his life in electronic music, it still feels good to play the piano. We need a tactile connection with music.

Clara Rockmore: She was the only theremin virtuoso. Very often there will be only one person who will fully utilize a new invention and it’s usually never the inventor.

2/28/2024

Went through my 2046 album, revisiting what I was thinking at the time. There’s a lot of strange stuff on it. What I was trying to do is go to an extreme, but typically with extremes you want to o there to see what you can learn and if there’s anything that you could use. What’s interesting about going back and listening to your old work is that you find things that are worthy of remixing or even rewriting. There’s a lot of strong stuff on it and I’ve been doing remixes and some videos. When you do videos, or anything visual, it gives you a different perspective on what you were doing. But the whole process of revisiting is difficult in a way because you can’t remember exactly what you were thinking at the time. This album was supposed to be a soundtrack for my Reset story, so there’s things happening as a kind of a “script” and so this is the score for that. 

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2/28/2025

Stravinsky: “When talking about the arts during Stalinism, it was said that the dictator commented on a book of poems saying that “there should be just two copies printed, one for him and one for her”.

As I was watching Ron Carter’s latest master class on bass lines, I was thinking it’s a good metaphor for differentiating between the left hemisphere and right hemisphere as applied in music. Bass lines involve the left hemisphere because you need to know the chord tones, but it is right hemisphere in the sense that it is a flow, and it’s a balance between those two things. Also it’s amazing that he’s still actively playing music in his ‘80s. Music is probably key to (healthy) longevity.