June 3rds
6/3/1886
(Thomas Sullivan diary)
A year since war’s end. Veterans’ reunion at Turner Hall in evening. War stories grow more heroic with each telling. Land speculation fever grips the city. Men who sold shoes now trade in prairie lots. The westward ride carries us all.
6/3/1967, Saturday
(Beatles Studio Diary)
Studio Two: Tracks on George’s “I Don’t Know”. “It was for the first time on a Beatle recording, a bass guitar superimposition only, something which would become more commonplace during and after 1967.
6/3/2021
The “wide horizons” approach to creativity: One reason you want both science and spirituality in your artwork or your music is that it widens your horizon. You get to access different levels, and you can take and leave whatever you want. If you’re not interested in certain aspects of science, don’t use it. If you’re not interested in certain aspects of spirituality, astrology, and so on, don’t use it—or just use a part of it—then just mix it in with the other materials, and it’s the best of all worlds. #riff
6/3/2023
Since the advent of the PC and what was once called “word processing”, we’ve been able to edit indefinitely and non-linearly. I realize that’s how I’m working on music as well. When I start a new piece, it might begin with just me playing a guitar or playing a bass part which evolves over time, sometimes over a much longer period, into something inconceivable from the seed ideas.
It’s interesting that Rod Serling never did rewrites. It could have been that spontaneous ideas were immediately incorporated. Kevin Kelly: The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
6/3/2024
What I like about improvised music, as opposed to other art forms, is that it has an open space that you can interact with. You can’t do that with a painting on a wall. That interactive space began with musicians playing along with recordings—although some musicians just copied them verbatim, which was like making a replica of the painting on the wall.
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