March 26ths

3/26/1997

I don't want fame, I just want fortune and buy the fame when I want it. Can you buy fame?

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3/26/2002

From “The People’s Chronology” on 1966: Electric guitar gains prominence in England, where US rock musician Jimi Hendrix, 23, begins to exploit the full potential of the relatively new instrument. Hendrix uses imagination, virtuosity, invention, and sexual pantomime in his stage appearances”, Bacos came on market, “mod” look, mini skirts, Beatles more popular than Jesus, use of Sitar, Indian culture. 

3/26/2010

Possible Dynaxioms: 

Jazz turns melody on its side and makes it sound like harmony, When you’re creating something, you’re essentially steering it to a conclusion.

3/26/2021

Sometimes when I work on mixes I push the louder things to the background. For example, loud distorted guitars sound like they’re two blocks away.
 
There was a book I read recently that relates, and is a good metaphor for pushing things to the background and out of attention: “The monk who at the moment of the blast had been practicing a technique known as open presence meditation. In that state I was not actively trying to control the startle, but the detonation seemed weaker as if I were hearing it from a distance. In the distracted state, the explosion suddenly brings you back to the present moment and causes you to jump out of surprise, but while in open presence you are resting in the present moment and the explosion simply occurs and causes only a little disturbance in you.”

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If something starts as an ambient piece, or is just atmosphere, it usually stays that way—unlike traditional songs which can be rearranged. Traditional songs can add atmosphere, but ambient music can’t add traditional instruments so easily because they stick out in the foreground too much. If you’re going to use traditional instruments and atmosphere, everything has to be pushed to the background. If you have vocals, they have to be treated so that they could be placed farther away from the foreground. In ambient music nothing really is in the foreground, at least not for long. It is a low-contrast music. If you have a monochrome piece of art that’s mostly grays and pastels, then add red accents, it pushes it all the way to the foreground. So it’s true that ambient music is more like painting because you’re using the same z-axis. Even though painting is on a flat plane, recorded music relies on spatiotemporal aspects. What I really like about music is that you can use that space which doesn’t exist in visual art. #riff

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I'm always on the lookout for music in language. While reading a book and I see something that has a musicality to it I’ll try to jot it down or capture it in some way with an app. What's particularly interesting now with voice recognition is that it makes mistakes that create lyric ideas. It's interesting how somebody misinterprets what you say and it can be used in a musical way.

A couple months ago I was watching a German film but there were some English parts in it and I didn't realize that I had voice recognition on and it was transcribing the dialogue. Some examples:

The man God has for me
Show me the settings for visibility
I thought it took another Monday
I enter leaving
The undecipherable chance