May 2nds

5/2/1995 

(Eno Diary)

“Noticing myself suddenly thinking I see fascism in the tightness in people’s faces - signs of the beginning of racism.”

[5/2/2025: Now in the US. Unimaginable in 1995, but the seeds were perhaps there.] 

5/2/1997, Friday

Carol Marin resigns from Channel 5 News in protest of the hiring of Jerry Springer. She is very brave to stand up in defense of journalism. 

Final mix on Hot New Earth  

[5/2/2024: A Songday song based on it, perhaps with the same lyrics]   

 AI-Generations:

5/2/2021 

String quartet for track of the same title on the “Music For Photographs” album. Subject photo was taken by Brassai in Paris in 1932. 

Madame Bijou (Quartet) by meta4s

 Grazing through Pierre Boulez’s Music Lessons, the transcribed lectures. Fascinating. What I realized is that conductors really have to have this caliber of intellectual vision–totally necessary for classical works. He was referencing the historic “costumization” of music in certain contexts–that you perhaps have a poor understanding of, or it’s just been characterized like teh typical baroque music setting where you have performances of the music with musicians in wigs and with candles–just a silly cliche stage production, when you really don’t know what it was like then, but there’s myriad ways that you can recontextualize the music. Boulez is a good conductor in that sense he’s more like someone who works on a movie set or is involved in a movie production, like a production designer. It’s another hat that you put on. Sometimes you’re the director, sometimes you’re the cinematographer–there are different angles that you can take. I certainly do. When I’m writing and producing music I sometimes use cinematic metaphors. It’s a really useful head space to go int. For example, you’re going to do an R&B record and the studio is in the south somewhere, and you look at photos of those studios and think of what it was like in them. I think that’s what he’s talking about here. #riff