April 2nds

4/2/1980

Andy Warhol meets Pope John Paul II in St. Peter’s Square.

[Uses the E-G#-D-F# tuning]  

 

4/2/2005

Pope John Paul II dies. Massive pilgrimage to Rome. His death now eclipses the Terri Schiavo case. (Terri who?) 

Dynaxiom: When you see the long view, it helps you decide whether you believe in God or not.  

4/2/2019

When I was in music school we'd ask each other what part of music we liked most--melody, harmony or rhythm. I always loved harmony, but came to use all of them. Over the years I came to like another one above the others and that was the conceptual, or art driven by ideas. More than anything, my work is driven by ideas, in which any or other elements can serve as tools to resolve the ideas. None are more important. To elevate one element makes the work inert in a “spiritual” sense. For example in music, if something is too harmonic, melody or rhythm may be overlooked. Important elements arise in hindsight when you discover the thing that makes it work.