March 31sts

3/31/2009

In pop music, efficient repetition is your friend.

 

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3/31/2015

When I was a composition student, one exercise was to create a music paraphrase of an existing piece (in this case a piece by Schubert), where the piano part was cut and pasted to a new score, to which a new melody was composed to the Little Rose of the Field. Nothing was "stolen" in this case, but rather more cut-up a la Burroughs or Schwitters collage.

3/31/2025

The early editions were slim volumes, and now have grown to 400 pages--each. This is because I either dictate everything, or there are video transcriptions, which can be quite long. In addition, there are quite a few photographs, which makes it a longer book. Remember, this is 28 years of March entries. 

The United States has no resemblance to the United States in 1997, when I started the diary. In retrospect, I saw things really going off the rails in about 2011.