March 18ths

3/18/2022

Lyric/Poem idea: 

The things that she said
She didn't even know
She was talkin' on a talk show
The places she went
She didn't even go
She was talkin' on a talk show

Used for an AI-generated song. 

3/18/2023

3/18/2026

In music, I've never really forced myself into one genre, and I like to do a lot of things at the same time. So nothing is stopping me from writing classical music with some pop music in the background. If I'm just putting in articulations or bowings, I could be listening to something else. Since the advent of the internet and especially social media, there's always the possibility of context collapse--that we have different audiences we have to play to. There's the classical audience that doesn't want to hear any pop music, and then there's the pop music audience that isn't interested in classical music. But I'm interested in both. It's now even more complicated with AI because I can easily write songs in many different genres and listen back to them as if it were a radio. That's distinctly different from writing classical music. It's difficult to pursue multiple things--as opposed to decades ago, when it was essentially a form of eclecticism. In the 1980s, I was writing classical pieces and pop music contemporaneously and didn't have a problem with it. There was no such thing as context collapse back then. 

3/18/2047

(Anthony Townes Diary)

Another interview in the accident investigation, Dr. Stone's colleague. The more I do this the more I get the feeling that I'm confabulating. The more someone forces you to remember it begins to suggest that you forgot, the old implanted false memory trick. We all assumed that AVs were completely safe with few accidents over 15 years. They seem to be inferring that there was foul play, that someone programmed the vehicle. Everyone else seems to have drawn this conclusion, and that I'm being too nice to say it was all just a freak accident. 

What was Anthony Townes' relationship with Dr. Stone?