April 15ths

4/15/1944

(Diary of Anne Frank)

“There’s just one bad thing after another. When will it all end?” You can sure say that again. Guess what’s happened now?..."

What I've always liked about the tunings is that you can use similar fingerings as you would in standard tuning, but interesting dissonances happen, and you can incorporate them without dismissing them out of hand. I've noticed that a lot of the music that I've written with the tunings tends to sound like XTC, In fact, Andy Partridge uses alternate tunings. They give the music an interesting “wrongness”.

This one is actually more fitting with the Frank entry. Instant metal/prog (the notes at the 7th and 12th frets are harmonics). 

4/15/2005

We’re in the iPod Society. (I don’t have one yet) Instead of the LP we have the PL (Playlist). How is this different from just a newer version of a Walkman? (You have access to your whole music collection). The “Podcast” is the new broadcast (narrowcast) . What will replace radio? (wireless downloads) Who will (can) regulate? The good thing about 60s-era radio is that it made choices for you...

[4/15/2025: 20 years on. I had thought that "pull" technology is better than "push" technology, because the choice is always ours. But obviously that isn't the case. Even if you wanted to pull information, algorithms are still pushing it at you. You could set up playlists that would sound like 60s radio, and podcasts were doing that at least by 2010. Immersive audio will always be niche.] 

4/15/2025

More Drop 31 experiments. Note at the 7th fret on the F# string (C#) is held while plucking the harmonic at the 5th fret (D) on the D string (a b9)