Lee Barry Composition Diary

 "Brian" Mix: Sum 1: Nostalgia Galaxy by Lee Barry  Final Mix: Sum 1: Nostalgia Galaxy by Lee Barry  Rough Mixes (November):   Possible lyric: Disaster movies It's what it's like to live in the world Subconscious movies It's what it's like to live in the frame Disaster movies Why we fight to live in the world Your favorite movies Inside your television and mistaken for your mind Paintings so surreal Abstractions in the marks Projection uses light But ends up in the dark Disaster movies The flicker of the fear in your brain Psychotic reaction Life without illusion is no life at all Disaster movies It's what it's like to live in the frame Subconscious movies Inside your television And mistaken for your mind Paintings so surreal Abstractions in the marks Projection uses light But ends up in the dark   If all the disaster movies that we've seen over the past fifty years are in fact projections—as they have been in many cases (most notably 911), the...

  A short pastoral piece for the holidays. I've included some ambient atmosphere consisting of field recordings in natural settings. It is loosely inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian Houses built in the 30s and 40s.   I've included some ambient atmosphere consisting of field recordings in natural settings.  

  December is F Lydian month and this year it's "Winter Clocks". The title is a variation of "Simmer Cloks" in the Scots language, which are sunbeams through the clouds seen in the summer. Lydian can sometimes slip into Mixolydian like it does here when it seems to resolve to G. Lydian is in the middle-ground or "rift" of the modes.

Listen on Spotify What does funky bass music have to do with the 19th-century French sculptor Rodin?  Fragments. This is the best image that illustrates how I work when I produce albums.  I've always been a collector of ideas and have a good system for organizing them. It's essentially the process of serialization and generativity: making another piece in a series, transforming existing works into new ones, then framing them within some kind of a concept--as Rodin assembled fragments of sculptures.  I invent nothing, I rediscover.- Auguste Rodin "In later years, Rodin also used to tell the anecdote that the bust he originally intended to create had actually become a fragment, because as a young artist, he could not afford to heat his studio overnight. During a bitter cold winter night, the back of the 'Man with the Broken Nose' froze and broke off; this way from the bust only the face was left. Rodin officially favoured such accidental damages - at least he fa...

  Per the Rifts system, the Lydian mode for all 12 keys moves up in fourths and is associated with the months. November is C Lydian month. December is F Lydian, then starts again in January with Bb Lydian. February is Eb Lydian, and so on. Lead sheet:

Tool that uses machine learning or an algorithm to map lyrics to a video file: https://autolyrixalign.hltnus.org/ Source Lyric (Mine) PERFECT WORLD (1994) In a perfect world We can have no walls But we hide behind a curtain In a restless world A government falls And leaves our futures quite uncertain... Result:

  Another piece in E Locrian, with more of an ancient Greek vibe. Its "i" chord is diminished. I am also using its iv chord (Am) as well as its V (Bb), VI (C) and vii (Dm).

 A piece in E Locrian. Video:  https://youtu.be/px9Kl Hg6Yz4

When I first saw Kamala's clip of her phoning Biden , I thought it had a musical quality, and here it is transcribed for history. 

Something I wrote in my diary in 2004, but not as a song lyric, and now inspired one. If you take public transportation you tend to see the same people for years--and then you don't. (Alas, the Tragic Bus ). The corollary is the mercurial nature of relationships.