Curio No. 17
Ralph Meatyard - Untitled (1964) AI treatment:
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Curio No. 4A
Diminished and Whole-Tone clashes--the shortest Curio so far. All are a minute or shorter.
Curio No. 30
A section of Bosch's The Last Judgment Seed is the rhythm for "We are the 99%" (played by timpani) but it's not about OWS.
Disaster Movies (AI Version)
Films and novels can be "dry runs" for reality. An idiom now baked in the cake is "It was something you'd see in a movie". Films are also like dreams, where the narrative is fragmented as if edited like a film. Stills/footage used: Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, as well as film burns. "Discuss disaster movies" The 4th track is a teenage band that made their first demo on an 8-track reel-to-reel. ***
AI Steals (Disaster Movies)
Sometimes AI comes up with very nice melodies. This one is simple and elegant, with my terrible voice-leading. You can sort-of play them together. AI-generated source music:
That Former You
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:
Curio No. 22
Galileo Galilei before the Holy Office, by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury (1800s) Seed rhythm: Curio No. 22 by meta4s
Curio No. 21
Music to the 8th century Japanese poem Yamabe no Akahito Walking out on Tago Beach When suddenly I’m face-to-face With a sheet of solid white The towering peak of Fuji Crowned by snow Still falling now Uses the Japanese Kumoi (Joshi) pentatonic scale at bar 13-26 Curio No. 21 by meta4s *** AI-generated versions:
