April 9ths

4/9/2021

I realized a long time ago that you don’t want a lot of options when you’re in the flow of creativity. I bought a synthesizer in 2005 which I still haven’t completely explored 

There’s so much work involved in drilling through menus just to find a sound. Usually what happens (and I think it’s the way it’s designed) is that you just grab a sound and just go with it. There’s no creativity involved at all; it’s just pressing buttons.....Use of AI to decrease the amount of time scrolling through banks of sounds would be helpful, but if time isn’t an element, why make it an element? 

[4/9/2025: The paradox now is a lack of options when generating music with AI. What I would find useful is to have options for each of the fundamental musical elements: melody, harmony, and rhythm. But in most generators, all you have are vague categories describing the music. It's music composition as a listener, not as a writer. As a writer you ultimately want things to be very specific. When I start a piece of music just with a guitar, usually I'll come up with a unique chord progression or riff, but this isn't an option in AI-generated music; you're kind of stuck with whatever samples are there. They can be interesting, but there's a different result from both ways of working. The gap that needs to be closed to allow the user to create music on a more musical level, as one would with a guitar or a piano].

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Virtual reality (VR) goggles offer numerous possibilities for enhancing music education by creating immersive, interactive, and personalized learning experiences. Below are some key applications of VR in music education:

4/9/2025

Demo for next album:

 

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Revisited the Drop 31 tuning (E-G#-D-F#). It’s interesting to play things as you would in standard tuning in a different tuning. It’s also interesting to create “orchestralizations”–taking pre-existing material, even pop songs, ideas on a bass, and fleshing them out for various ensembles. Particularly, with the alternate tunings, I like the “sourness” that it adds.