Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

6/5/1886 (AI-Generated Chicago Diary)  Turner Society building gymnastics equipment—healthy minds in healthy bodies, they say. Strange concept for Americans raised on Puritan suspicion of the flesh.  German beer garden on Lincoln Avenue in evening. 6/5/1898, Sunday (Paris) (Harry Kessler Diary) Thoughts about Germans: not industrious, dutiful, only works for money or out of habit. Thinks German talents are half-talents, born salesman, commentator, a daydreamer and beer-drinker.  A Renoir from 1872, probably something Kessler would have liked (or collected)--or not. It has a summer light.                    6/5/2011, Sunday  Austin Gardens. Sound of Shakespeare Theater troupe in background.                                        6/5/2025 From Shore To Shore, from the north shore of France to the east coast of Ireland, ...

6/4/1886  (Thomas Sullivan Diary)  Heavy rains, a flood of mud. Congress likely to pass the Fourteenth Amendment—citizenship for all born here. Southern states already protesting.   6/4/1944 (Naples 44) Book Excerpt Library : "Discuss the events of June 4"  6/4/1968  (Beatles Studio Diary) A day of curious overdubs on “Revolution I”. John recorded his vocal lying flat on the floor. He was having hissy fits, claiming that the tape machine was always breaking down, and later apologized. Paul and George did background voices consisting of just the words “mama” and “dada”.  [ Text used for Short ] 6/4/1995 Finished  Tube Voyeur  [AI-generated versions]   ***     6/4/2017 One of my strategies is to “turn on the synths, and tune the guitars, and play and use the first thing you play”. This doesn’t last long because the “System 2” behaviors quickly take control, as they should. If I “surrender” all the time, and keep using these ideas...

6/3/1886  (Thomas Sullivan diary) A year since war’s end. Veterans’ reunion at Turner Hall in evening. War stories grow more heroic with each telling. Land speculation fever grips the city. Men who sold shoes now trade in prairie lots. The westward ride carries us all.                       6/3/1967, Saturday (Beatles Studio Diary)  Studio Two: Tracks on George’s “I Don’t Know”. “It was for the first time on a Beatle recording, a bass guitar superimposition only, something which would become more commonplace during and after 1967. 6/3/2021                          The “wide horizons” approach to creativity: One reason you want both science and spirituality in your artwork or your music is that it widens your horizon. You get to access different levels, and you can take and leave whatever you want. If you’re not interested in certain aspects of scien...

An Esperanto Blues based on existing lyrics. 

 6/1/1997 Dream: A tornado turned into a woman in a blue sequined dress. [Eventually became a piece of music ] 6/1/1998 The act of creating and playing music represents the mysteriousness of being human. Once machines can reproduce a mysterious experience, there’s nothing left to call “soul”—or will there be a distinction between human soul and “machine soul”?  [6/1/2025: Machines (at least at the moment) can’t listen and react in real time. Improvisation is based on this. AI music is a facsimile or simulant of music]. I think what we’ll see in the future are music mixes that are released like software, or revisions are made and re-released. I think we’re in a situation where the computer metaphor will be heavily applied to music.  It’s not so much what an individual has abilities in, but rather the state by which abilities can develop.   6/1/2011                               [6/2026: Th...

5/31/1886 https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/f9a5ed81-6412-48ca-950a-b21fba83f0a2 Factory whistles mark time now—6 AM, noon, 6 PM. Our days measured not by sun but by production schedules. Overheard two lawyers debating anarchist philosophy over lunch. One called it "foreign poison," the other "inevitable evolution." Both missed the desperate humanity at its core. The question persists: Can we build a just society with unjust methods? Or do the methods inevitably corrupt the society?            5/31/1944 (Naples 44) The fragmentation of Italian politics in reaction to the long stagnant acquiescence under Fascism continues. There are now some sixty officially recognized political parties having memberships ranging from a hundred or so to nearly two million. Many of these offer bizarre recipes for national salvation, including a small band of fanatics in the Salerno area , who claim to have discovered the solution of the problem of perpetual motion, and to be...

5/30/1886 {Thomas Sullivan diary--AI-generated)  3 weeks since Haymarket. German anarchist near Lincoln Park distributing pamphlets with revival fervor. His story—displacement, awakening, revolution—mirrors thousands of others. On the telephone exchange on LaSalle: Voices traveling instantly, yet we fragment into distinct clusters. Connection breeds isolation. We preserve the essentially human while embracing the inevitably mechanical. The question shapes not just policy, but daily texture itself.  https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/a9bb552b-48db-4b53-9f19-47172983af3a 5/30/2000 Art institute for Bilbao exhibit. Big, grand redesigns of cities have been known to not work, e.g. Corbusier’s “remote” work in Tunisia. Perhaps Frank Gehry will be the catalyst to make it succeed.   5/30/2011 Film: Transcendent Man . Takeaways: Immortality to deal with the death of his father; Instead of writing music he designed a machine to do it; Driven by generations (re: The Fourth Turn...

 

 Today's rhythm. Use for every line in a song.    

  5/29/2013 Centennial of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring .  Interesting juxtaposition: This morning the Barnum circus train was on an adjacent track to the El, which I thought was symbolic of life on a different track, and The Rite, while not a “Petrushka”, was an alternate reality in the music world.    5/29/2024 In the Tin Pan days, many songs would be based on the rhythms of the words in the chorus. Some words are inherently rhythmic and are kind of a drum, a word “drum”, a wordrum if you will. The word “editor” is typically spoken with 16th notes. There are other note values you can use but it is naturally a percussive word. If you displace the phrase by an eighth note and put it on an upbeat it's unintelligible.     5/29/2026 AI music is "out of control" in the sense that you can't control individual elements, any more than you can anything that's "sealed". Music is naturally 'jailbroken'.