September 13ths
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9/13/1998
The musician converts mental states into a pattern that evokes the same (or different) mental states in the listener. If we want to understand the Beatles, we have to concentrate on what led to that sound, the distillation of spirit and inspiration, which eventually results in sound that listeners hear and convert to exformation.
German physicist Peter Richter said that in his studies of chaos theory and fractals he came to the analysis that people tend to be drawn to boundaries, coasts, rivers, mountain chains...Because they are transitions from one element to another. “The beauty of boundaries comes about because it is a place where something complicated and interesting happens. If we are in only one domain, our lives are not as interesting as they would be if we lived on the boundary, where we can be influenced by many different things. I like the boundary between art and science.
9/13/2001
24-hour media coverage and no commercials. Everything is so interesting, but you feel sad and anxious, and think less about ambition. Playing music is so engrossing that you don’t think about [rivalries].
[9/13/2025: On a lark on 9/11 I replayed the live broadcast of Good Morning America in real-time where the time-stamps matched clock time as a "history overlay". They also had no commercials. When you know the history of how things unfolded you know just what was going to happen].
9/13/2016
Sometimes chord relationships appear as black swans, that can’t really be boxed in a simplistic chord theory, or a Lydian Chromatic Concept, or Harmolodics, you just find them and don’t try to explain it away. You’ve found secret chords in a corner of harmony.
9/13/2019
The hegemony of 4/4 is partially the result of drum machines and software that may have a default to 4/4, 120 BPM, bereft of syncopation. The parentage of the 3-minute song also had to do with the constraint of the vinyl single and of radio programming. LPs and FM radio changed that in the 70s, but has yet to have a revival. New technologies will always reset the formula for a while, but it will always come back to the missionary position. People always come back to vanilla for some reason.
9/13/2024
It’s ironic that AI music isn’t as innovative as we think it would be. I’ve been exploring the possibility of using a MIDI file as the “seed” to generate music, but I haven’t found anything interesting yet. The way that we’re doing it now is to use a text prompt describing the music, which I don’t think achieves an interesting result. Personally, I want things to be generative. If we have the ability to design a seed for that generativity that’s actually more interesting to the composer because it’s of their design. It’s like the recipe that we formulate so that we can repeat the recipe or create variations of it. What people are doing on the internet uses the same kind of tools to create things that have variety but not in the sense that they’re generative.
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