September 8ths

 

9/8/1998

Jazz musicians had radical intentions but they still were fluent in the language of music.

[9/8/2025: That is, jazz may sound like it’s completely free form, but the players are well-versed in jazz theory. Sometimes you don’t need, or want, to use it].

Historic day in baseball--McGuire hits 62 home runs.

9/8/1999

Has anyone thought of, or is anyone doing classical/rap fusion? If not, I'd invent it.

[9/8/2025: It probably had been done even in 1999–as Remix–but since rap is “meterless” the music would need to have no bar lines, or the music would be built around beats].

9/8/2002

The Arts merge at the level of inspiration, but diverge at the level of craft. Painting can inspire music, but they use different tools. 

[Became Dynaxiom ____]

9/8/2016            

ACRONYMS, 9x27 inches, acrylic on cardboard, hardware, mounted on panel. 

9/8/2024

Every generation has their “griots”: Silents had Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, Boomers had Bob Dylan and Joan Baez, GenX had rappers, Millennials had [Jesse Welles]-, GenZ has ——. It’s an archetypal vessel that gets refilled every 20 years or so.