April 12ths
4/12/2011
150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War.
Headache all day.
4/12/2022
Should musicians get paid by the note in their songs? The “should” is established, but the “can” is extremely difficult. The systems involved in that would create more complexity than it’s worth. You’d have to find ways of taking a fungible sea of data and segmenting it in such a way that it can be monetized. Spotify already does this to some degree by parsing some of the metadata, but you’d have to do that at a more granular level using MIDI or samples or groups of samples. For example, if I want to track one whole note at bar 17 in a piece of music, the MIDI data is there, but there is no system in place to tally that one bit of data as performing rights organizations track plays. Plus, the note itself is too fungible to assign any rights to. People now are attempting to copyright colors so it’s not that far-fetched of an idea.
4/12/2024
The Songdays songs are essentially what the Beatles were doing when they’d get ideas from the newspaper, like “I read the news today, oh boy--About a lucky man who made the grade...”
4/12/2025
More Drop 31 noodling, this time resulting in a late-70s punk pop vibe a la Elvis Costello's This Year's Model. (Idiot glee--the "blissful and joyous feeling that one experiences when completely lost in the moment of creation").
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