Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

    An interesting device for improvisations (or compositions) is to use a chord in fourths as the primary harmonic element and the major pentatonic scale based on the top note of the voicing, for example using an E Major pentatonic against a chord stacked F#-B-E. Only those notes should be used but you can use other scales such as E Lydian.  Curio No. 12 by meta4s   Version 2 with chimes and choir:  Curio No. 12 (Ver. 2) by meta4s

   Music heard in a dream on Halloween:  Halloween Angel by meta4s Arranged: Curio No. 8 by meta4s

  Man Ray - film strip from Emak Bakia Seed:  (12/3/1997) Curio No. 7 by meta4s

 Yellow Cab  

   Church, Southeastern U.S., 1936 -- Walker Evans Very often we forget who we were. In the process of understanding the present moment, we lose a sense of our deep history. Should we change, and what for? To what degree does that affect the roots of our own life? If you lose your roots, there’s no way to get nutrients from the soil of life. (12/11/2003)  Seed:   Curio No. 6 by meta4s

  1/21/2025 “What a beautiful name,” he said, pronouncing the phrase with a stress on its last syllable: A-mer-i-CA.  The rhythmic seed:     Curio No. 5 by meta4s

 

 Lighthouse Monolith   Lighthouse  

      Seed:   11/9/1914  [Wittgenstein diary] Russians quickly advancing on Krakow. The entire population must evacuate.  

 11/15/2004 Jazz musicians are music theory gear heads—often over the heads of the audience. 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.  ***  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 based on the rhythm of the words, "Part of the fabric (magic) of America is a rodeo". This is how AI interpreted the words using the prompt: R&B, Funky, Normal Tempo, Synth, Electric Guitar, Drums, Bass, and becomes the seed: