Lee Barry Composition (And Photo) Diary

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"Lyricized"  prose using Yi-Fu Tuan's Passing Strange and Wonderful .   "Humans may be primarily visual, but hearing enjoys temporal priority. Infants in the womb can hear their mother's breathing and heartbeat, digestive processes, and muscle and joint movements.They also register messages from the external world, such as loud conversation; even before birth they may become accustomed to their parents' voices! Thus infants acquire their earliest awareness of the external world through organic and human sound rather than through sight. The steady sounds of organic life, especially the heartbeat, provide comfort. Even a left -handed mother tends to hold her infant in her left arm, apparently from the instinctual nowledge that the baby appreciates the rhythmic throb of the heart. Adults retain this preference. "Wherever you find insecurity," Desmond Morris asserts, "you are liable to find the comforting heartbeat rhythm in one kind of disguise or...

  There's an interesting "moisture border" on the edge of the roof line as well as under the window, which I never noticed before.  

Groove for the phrase "Where do all the things we forgot go?" (Dynaxiom 0498 ). Anything can have a rhytmicity if you work with it, and supports the idea that music is a bottom-up phenomenon from drumming and the vocalizations that may have accompanied it in the ancient world. This could be used for a jazz piece of some kind, with horns doing the "stabs". 

  A stroll down Michigan Avenue and through Grant Park from Roosevelt, through the roaring 20s (19 and 20) (Equestrian Events. Luxury Hotels), 1968 (the Democratic Convention protests), The Art Institute, Millennium Park. Each lyric line is associated with a location or "snapshot"--as if I had taken a picture of it. Perhaps it's the wrong style (90s soft metal like Stone Temple Pilots or perhaps Rush, given the original idea of the Mnemonic Walk , but it's not something I would have turned off on 90s radio. It would be a track you'd hear in rotation on WXRT. The artists are 2 fake "Spinal Taps", The Mnemonics and Flip & The Switch, in the style of "Artist and The Band", like "Elvis Costello and The Attractions"   ***

    An idea heard in a dream--an oom-pah thing with embellishment (confabulation). This may or may not be on Sum V --perhaps too early 20th century.

 

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