August 26ths

8/26/2022

Tools are the most basic form of technology, but tools can very often be confused with creativity or obfuscate creativity. The greater the specificity of the genre, the more creativity will be at the service of technology. Certain genres of music have equipment requirements, but in my view, the creativity should be less tool-dependent—unless you start with a particular tool and find materials to use it on.    

[8/26/2025: If AI is a tool, it's one that requires no physical effort--it's "motorized"].

8/26/2023

Thousands of Americans on Saturday commemorated the 60th anniversary of the March on Washington, a pivotal event in the 1960s U.S. civil rights movement at which Martin Luther King Jr gave his galvanizing “I have a dream” speech.

A sonic memory: Audio Snapshots: Washington DC August 26, 1963 60 years on.