July 15ths

7/15/2007 

Recordings are more interesting than performances in that they encapsulate more history. It might take months for a final mix, in which time babies are born, people die, etc.

7/15/2010

One of the primary objectives of good songwriting is to create a good structure that can generate new arrangements and variations. You should never get tired of playing it. 

7/15/2021

This is an interesting week for AI music because the results from the AI song contest have been released. What I like to do is listen to it in the background and see if anything catches my ear. Sometimes I pick up my guitar and start to improvise against it, as it’s how I’ve always learned—by playing along with things and to “collaborate” with it. What we should want from music is an interaction with something either pre-existing or something happening simultaneously....It’s the general anonymity of the sound not the individual artist that’s doing these. Music can be a team like an art studio can be a team. Back in the days of the Old Masters there was the Master Artist and then they had the Artisans. It was a team, it was a studio, and the paintings weren’t signed by the Master. The paintings were signed in the studio name. It wasn’t until relatively recently in our history that artists started to sign their work. I think we’re going back to a period where it’s becoming more anonymous. The whole Banksy idea and even Satoshi with blockchain, there is a team effort and there’s no individual that we have to ascribe to or follow. Satoshi doesn’t sign his name on everything and we don’t call it the “Satoshichain”.

[7/15/2025: We evolved from the studio as a team producing art to the Artiste who paints the important elements and the Artisans do everything else, then signs it, to artists signing readymades in someone else's name (R. Mutt) to fake AI artists doing all the work].        

7/15/2024

Extreme Heat, drawn from two entries, 20 and 15 years ago, the latter of which alluding to its cause. BP was working to stop a leak to avoid the destruction of an ecosystem, but had been all along, even without the break in the well. We have been breaking summer heat records ever since.

Extreme Heat (7-15) by meta4s