Curio No. 120
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Curio No. 103
Slippery Slope , based on Dynaxiom 2878. The vibe is Barrett-era Floyd with the characteristic descending chromatic lines. *** How Suno spins it:
Curio No. 102
Seed is the phrase " hunting ghosts in broad daylight", from this AI-generated diary entry by Thomas Sullivan, a fictitious character living in Chicago in 1886. So it goes from AI to human back to AI in the AI versions. 8/5/1886 I find myself hunting ghosts in broad daylight. Yesterday, wandering near where Miller’s store once stood, I searched for some trace of the black bunting from Lincoln’s mourning. Nothing. Glass and granite have consumed every landmark of my younger self. Time moves differently now—not the urgent acceleration I felt in ‘75, but a strange compression. Decades telescope into moments. I remember the weight of thirty years like yesterday’s coat, yet cannot recall what I ate for breakfast. AI Versions:
Curio No. 99
A string shortet based on an AI version of Hot New Earth . It's an interesting evolution: Original pop song>AI treatment>transcription>AI treatments. The string quartets have nothing to do with the original song but is its parentage. An AI versions of the AI version. No. 1: No. 2:
Curio No. 46
From my old Music Ideas list from the 90s. This is #75 "She's A Star". The idea at the time was that the word "star" would have a dissonant interval in it. This would be the intro, a la You Can't Always Get You Want, but would be a fast EDM, not classic rock. In the end, both she (and he) are "diminished". Female Voices She's a star She's our star She's a star He's so glam She's a star She's our star! She's a star Male Voices He's our Tsar He's our man He's so glam He's a Tsar He's a star! He's a star Score: Art/Footage: The Ugly Duchess by Massys, various Kristin Wiig skits Upper Part of a Tabernacle For the Holy Sacrament (1465)
Curio No. 254 (Beyond the Shock Wave)
The extension as a short, with a groove and bass part as a treatment, using the "shock wave" theme. An interesting synchronicity: there was an earthquake under Lake Michigan in the afternoon.
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A series of brass miniatures, a minute or less in length, using the "history overlay "technique that I've used in photography where two photographs are superimposed with the older image in the background. But here I've also used American paintings from the 18th century and early photography and Daguerreotypes. The short transitional images between the pieces are mostly Jasper Johns flags, as a way to say that American cultural traditions are now mostly contemporary or appropriated. It's hard to interpret the occasion as being purely traditional 60 years after the advent of Pop art, but the music is completely traditional. The dates are the Songdays--the day where I had the riff idea. Scores:
Curio No. 253
Seed: Score: Audio, including AI versions. It's interesting how it develops them, but nothing I would ever do. They sound like marching band arrangements that would never be easily played. No one would want to make a score and parts for it. It words as sesquicentennial music.
Curio No. 256
Seed is the rhythm of a found voice, "Catch you on the next deep dive" AI-generated versions, all over-the-top and corny: