Sum IV.1: String Shortets (2024-2025)
Sum IV.1: String Shortets
A series of string quartets a minute long, based on motifs from diary entries.
(Final order undetermined) There will be 15 altogether, as a send-up of Warhol's 15 Minutes.
It's a Rodeo
11/15/2004
This is an interesting way to put the human in the loop: generate the music based on your words, transcribe the melodies and riffs, then arrange for string quartet.
The original rhythm is based on the rhythm of the words, "Part of the fabric (magic) of America is a rodeo"--as it was interpreted by AI in a funky R&B interpretation.
Once jazz became suffused in urban environments, it became elite and intellectual. It's now hard to deny that the intelligentsia is part of the fabric of America as a rodeo.
Gabrielle
Based on a diary entry by Count Harry Kessler, 7/2/1907 (Paris)
Visited Renoir with Vollard this afternoon in Montmartre, rue Caulaincourt...Renoir sat on a rolling chair and painted a long, life-size blond nude, a replica of the nude at Gallimard’s. His black-haired model Gabrielle, in a loose yellow calico blouse, cleaned his brushes afterward. He had her bring out a nude of her, as she lay on the sofa with her mature, rather round form...
Motif:
7/10 Dream
Based on music heard in a dream on 7/10/2024.
All the Way To North Dakota
Derived from the 5/13/1977 diary by Keith Haring: "Took a bus to 1-94 and caught a few little rides and then a truck ride all the way to the border of N. Dakota where we ate three cheeseburgers and drank some beers. It was all farmers and when I went to the bathroom they all talked about my hair...Rednecks! Then we got a ride from a pilot who likes Bachman Turner Overdrive and then a truck ride into N. Dakota."
Beauty of the Air
7/7/2022
An interesting quote by Monet that describes ambient music: “Other painters paint a bridge, a house, a boat...I want to paint the air in which the bridge, the house, and the boat are to be found, the beauty of the air around them. To me the motif itself is an insignificant factor, what I want to reproduce is what lies between the motif and me.”
At The Parade
Derived from 2 entries on May 27:
5/27/1966
Long sequence involving Bob Dylan and John Lennon, filmed riding in the back of a limo driving into central London. No script or direction other than to themselves. The piece was long and incomprehensible, made worse by the fact that they were both on drugs. The sequence was intended to form part of Eat The Document, a chronicle of Dylan's latest European concert tour.
5/27/2019
Memorial Day. Went to the parade and was thinking about America's soul...
Seed Riff:
Place Like Kansas
6/30/2001
News anchor and journalist Bill Kurtis traveled the world and found that he resonated with a simple place like Kansas. Everyone has one place where they fit in perfectly.
Seed Riff:
Place Like Kansas (6-30-2001) by meta4s
Reason II ("Reason To")
(Keith Haring Journal)
"The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint. I'd like to pretend that I've never seen anything, never read anything, never heard anything...and then make something. Every time I make something I think about the people who are going to see it and every time I see something I think about the person who made it. Nothing is important...so, everything is important."
String Shortet No. ___ ("Reason II") by meta4s
Heaven As Home
The initial idea:
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