March 16ths

Antipode: September 16ths 

3/16/1999
 
Interesting that when the phonograph was first invented it was designed only to preserve performances, not replicate them. We’ve come full circle: Now we’re back to preserving via sampling technology.

3/16/2005

Internet Demolition

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3/16/2024

AI is a good way to rapid-prototype music if you have an assembled cryptic lyric. Crossing a Range was made of lines abstracted from diary entries made on March 16ths. The meaning is hazy when you first start working with them but possible meanings begin to emerge. The theme seems to be Sisyphean: you could travel the world, crossing mountain ranges, arriving back home and perhaps feeling nothing had changed in some ways. It’s also Pinkphloydian: “Running over the same old ground, have we found the same old fears...” The music is extremely saccharine but works in an interesting way. “She” chokes up a bit on the word “change”—a nice happy accident.

Through ambiguity and non-linearity, a narrative emerges from the context of the fragments.
 
One of the Composition Strategies is “Continuous rearrangement until through-composed”. What this means is that the music is generative and is always spinning off new material. One of the main ideas behind the Rifts album is that it’s a play on “riffs” and that riff ideas which arose during the improvisations would be used to create new songs. I did it on a few already, such as The Dark Segment. So far it doesn’t have any words but I could add them if I wanted. 

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Crossing A Range:

 

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One of the Composition Strategies is “Continuous rearrangement until through-composed”. What this means is that the music is generative and is always spinning off new material. One of the main ideas behind the Rifts album is that it’s a play on “riffs” and that riff ideas which arose during the improvisations would be used to create new songs. I did it on a few already, such as The Dark Segment. So far it doesn’t have any words but I could add them if I wanted.

3/16/2026

Is art impulsive? You can usually tell because it doesn't take into account whether someone would want it on their wall for any appreciable period of time. Those kinds of works tend to end up in museums, ironically.