July 8ths

7/8/2000

The arts are like a big subduction zone, where ideas, products and so on are taken under, and rise again as new “crust”.

Interesting bit in an article: “The excessive use of technology not founded on logic has done real damage where we hoped it would help.”

[7/8/2025: This was in the early hours of the internet. The issue of logic in new technologies is evergreen and universal: It seemed logical that the internet would be like a card catalog–obviating the need to go to libraries to do research. It still serves that function but it went off those rails. The same question persists: why do we need AI when we did fine without it, and would continue to be fine with older technologies].  

7/8/2022

It might be too difficult to read certain things into cultural objects without the proper context. “Honesty” to the composer is not always what’s important when you’re creating the work because it might all be a mechanical operation of pushing notes (or sounds) up a hill. “Honesty” might come in the form of being mindful of things happening on the periphery of that, or having the ability to be both player and listener, then saying “that sounds like something I would do” which I think would seem to be honest. But I don’t think honesty is an absolute and is at best subjective and mercurial. If you know your intentions intimately, then that might be what honesty is.

[7/8/2025: You have to remind yourself sometimes to put on the philosophical hat and question intentions and impulses, but then the work is less spontaneous. I find that certain instruments and sounds add spontaneity but at risk of being too oblique to tasks at hand. At some point divergence is more of a guilty pleasure].

7/8/2024            
         
Possible Dynaxiom/lyric: You’re lucky if you get to be glad about something.(Lucky You're Lucky)

Became Entry 3003 and a song idea with a "Limelight" vibe.