Lee Barry Composition Diary

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"Lyricized"  prose using Yi-Fu Tuan's Passing Strange and Wonderful .   "Humans may be primarily visual, but hearing enjoys temporal priority. Infants in the womb can hear their mother's breathing and heartbeat, digestive processes, and muscle and joint movements.They also register messages from the external world, such as loud conversation; even before birth they may become accustomed to their parents' voices! Thus infants acquire their earliest awareness of the external world through organic and human sound rather than through sight. The steady sounds of organic life, especially the heartbeat, provide comfort. Even a left -handed mother tends to hold her infant in her left arm, apparently from the instinctual nowledge that the baby appreciates the rhythmic throb of the heart. Adults retain this preference. "Wherever you find insecurity," Desmond Morris asserts, "you are liable to find the comforting heartbeat rhythm in one kind of disguise or...

  There's an interesting "moisture border" on the edge of the roof line as well as under the window, which I never noticed before.  

Groove for the phrase "Where do all the things we forgot go?" (Dynaxiom 0498 ). Anything can have a rhytmicity if you work with it, and supports the idea that music is a bottom-up phenomenon from drumming and the vocalizations that may have accompanied it in the ancient world. This could be used for a jazz piece of some kind, with horns doing the "stabs". 

  A stroll down Michigan Avenue and through Grant Park from Roosevelt, through the roaring 20s (19 and 20) (Equestrian Events. Luxury Hotels), 1968 (the Democratic Convention protests), The Art Institute, Millennium Park. Each lyric line is associated with a location or "snapshot"--as if I had taken a picture of it. Perhaps it's the wrong style (90s soft metal like Stone Temple Pilots or perhaps Rush, given the original idea of the Mnemonic Walk , but it's not something I would have turned off on 90s radio. It would be a track you'd hear in rotation on WXRT. The artists are 2 fake "Spinal Taps", The Mnemonics and Flip & The Switch, in the style of "Artist and The Band", like "Elvis Costello and The Attractions"   ***

    An idea heard in a dream--an oom-pah thing with embellishment (confabulation). This may or may not be on Sum V --perhaps too early 20th century.

 

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   Scale:   Go ahead, forget me, I’ll survive-- but will the gods forget the vow you made and let you off so easily? *** wasuraruru mi wo ba omowazu chikaite shi hito no inochi no oshiku mo aru kana    AI-generated using the Japanese verse: 

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  Smokeloop with field audio atmosphere  The seed of this piece was generated by AI using Dynaxiom 0408 as the seed for the lyric:  *** Footage: Seance On a Wet Afternoon (1964)  Score:  The Curios are the reverse of scoring for an existing song. The score comes first and a song (or other treatment) can be built around it, perhaps replacing it.

  12/12/1998  Web article on composers using scientific principles to create music: Phil Thompson does work with fractal music and Susan Alexander makes sound out of DNA. Both were interviewed by BBC science editor David Whitehouse.              [12/12/2024: This was the early days of what became to be known as sci-art. AI is now in the equation but seems to be too much in the mainstream with its use to create all kinds of music based on text prompts, not DNA chains or other data inputs. Esoterica was interesting then at the beginning of the internet, and not so much now. If you made an album of ambient music made from DNA now it wouldn’t be very interesting to people. It wouldn’t get any Likes, even though it did back in 1998. The other day Andrew Keen interviewed the author of the new book The Endless Refrain by David Rowell in which he argues that music runs only on nostalgia now. This is because experimentation in music is not popular at...

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    Uses the Japanese Hiro Joshi scale exclusively--essentially natural minor with no 4th or 7th degree.    A thousand thoughts that trouble me dissolving into sadness as 1 gaze upon the moon— but not to me alone does autumn finally come tsuki mireba chiji ni mono koso kanashi kere waga mi hitorsu no aki ni wa arañe do   ***  AI-generated version in Japanese. Since I don't speak Japanese I can't attest to its accuracy.

 Mies' 828 LSD and Hancock Building in double exposure with the Holga camera.    

The beauty of AI music (if I can use word "beauty") is that you can write songs for other character artists and not be concerned about how you can do them yourself--yet you can explore abstract meanings in the lyrics and contextualize them with different vibes.  The seed of this idea was from an entry on November 17, 2024 where I wrote, "There will always be a you you once knew. Make sure you can re-connect with that person as you grow older." It's about the guiltless nostalgia of finding joy in the music of your youth. The David Hockney painting of his parents done in the early 70s seemed to work well, as did the Annie Liebovitz photo of Scarlett Johannsen.   *** *** Out-takes: 

Daily rhythm inspired by this AI-generated song with a funky feel with claps on the and of 3. Very oftern AI will inspire ideas. Feel free to use. After all, it's AI-generated. There may have been a person who was doing the claps but we'll never know. 

   From One Hundred Poems From Old Japan  Minamoto no Muneyuki  These mountain huts and hamlets are lonelier by far when winter comes around Just as the grass has withered, friends too have vanished—so it seems yamazato wa fuyu zo sabishisa ma sari keru hitóme mo kusa mo karenu to omoeba  AI-generated version (Japanese) 

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