August 23rds

[Interesting diary juxtapositions}:

8/23/1963, Friday            

Single release, “She Loves You”.            

8/23/1995            

(Eno Diary)            

New Oblique Strategy: “When is it for? Who is it for?”

8/23/1997, Saturday

It’s interesting that teenagers these days look at the music of 1988 as I look at the music of 1964 and the music of 1981 as the music of 1959.            

[8/23/2024: The gap gets farther and farther: It’s interesting that teenagers these days look at the music of 2005 as I look at the music of 1964 and the music of 1981 as the music of 1959.]

[8/23/2025: The Reaction Video is an interesting window into this phenomenon. Imagine they existed in the 1980s, reacting to the 1930s. We actually did that back then by exploring the music without advertising that we were doing it. If you want to explore the music of the 1980s put on any Elvis Costello  album and just explore it by yourself.]

8/23/2009        
       
Finished Ship of Theseus 24x36 oil pastel on canvas.

[The idea was that a painting was actually a grid or blueprint, and the “ship” could be reconstructed from it].    

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

8/21/2018

"Blue" Sky: 

 

8/23/2024

What I realize more and more is that physically playing music has a calming effect on the mind and body– as opposed to just creating music in software. Thinking about rhythms abstractly and playing rhythms are two different brain states.

8/23/2025

Worth putting in the diary. Oliver Sacks: "As one's mind becomes preoccupied with theoretical or scientific issues, one may have less attention, time or emotion available for other things. But there are lots of highest-power intellectuals who stay interested in music, like Einstein. Darwin may have been as absorbed in thinking about evolution as Freud was absorbed in thinking about psychoanalysis when he went to operas. All of us are apt to get a little desiccated if we don't make a point of holding on to the delights of art and music and landscape. It's very easy to become preoccupied with theorizing and the activities of daily living and stop noticing the beauties of the world."