September 29ths

9/29/2024           
            
Dynaxiom drafts: If music is too much about emotion, it will never go in a different direction. It’s too hard to reinvent.    

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Last night I was watching some footage from the David Gilmour Luck and Strange tour, specifically Great Gig In the Sky, where in place of the vocal improv by Clare Tory, they had a female vocal ensemble based on it–essentially a “scored” piece. It’s interesting that something spontaneous can later be arranged and played as if it was through-composed. This has happened to me many times where I’ll be playing something in a track as an improvisation and then later go back and actually score it for strings, even if it’s something musical in a field recording. Similar riffs happen in culture as well, where you take some cultural or historical element and spin it into something else that takes on secondary meanings...

[9/29/2025. There was a nice happy accident at the end of the video that loops the phrase "Catch you on the next deep dive". I reduced it to notation and scored it for strings. It nicely demonstrates the sometimes musical nature of language.]

Catch You On the Next Deep Dive by meta4s 

A Photographs For Music video using Urban Biota and a Gregory Crewdson photograph