A track from Ancient AI (2017), driven by an "Another One Bites The Dust" bass vibe.
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An illuminated track from the Ancient AI album (2017). The title is pronounced "panjalora", a made-up name. I've used Joseph Millais images.
In the spirit of the diary remix idea, I ran an experiment where I used just the entries from March 4ths, created a lyric, and then created some music for it. I randomly selected words and phrases until I had a verse idea, then formulated a query in ChatGPT to flesh it out--most of which was cliche junk. For associated images I used an AI image generator with various queries drawn from the 3/4 text, e.g. "Anne Frank and Martha Stewart in 2046" and Frank Gehry buildings on Mars" which generated some interesting and funny images, which could be used as an album cover. But for the most part, it felt like a waste of time. Anything that involves sorting through infinite permutations feels inundating. Some of the images are creepy and scary. I'm not looking for creepy and scary. What I'm interested in are things on the periphery of the uncanny valley, where it's slightly skewed in compelling ways. That's difficult to find when you have to weed through hundreds of mostly unusable images. The March 4 diary entries one of which is one of the fictitious characters, Neone from my Reset short story. The red text is the lines from the ChatGPT generation--and became the title. 3/4/1943 (Diary of Anne Frank) "A veritable thunderstorm of words came crashing down on me again this morning. The air flashed with so many coarse expressions that my ears were ringing with "Anne's bad this" and "van Daans" good that." Fire and brimstone!" 3/4/2004 Martha Stewart convicted. She could do up to 20 years in prison. 3/4/2046 (Neone's Diary) Lunch with Ramona at Fahrenheit Cafe, but Ramona's on a fast for the Mars mission. She talks about it constantly, as well as trying to assuage my doubt about the immortality treatments. A thunderstorm of words Crashing down on me Lunch with Ramona at the Fahrenheit Cafe She's fasting for Mars and immortality Symphonic music in a spectacle space Designed by a starchitect Crafting futures with design Echoes of a diary's pages The artistry of home and creation Ripples through the ages AI-Generated Images
A track from the Frontiers album done as kind of an antiphonal work song, initially inspired by Zelensky at the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 when I was in the middle of working on the album. Its main feature is wordplay on the -ated suffix, following the "He got..." call: He got...celebrated, he got...substantiated, and runs in alphabetical order.
He got cel-e-brat-ed He got ded-i-cat-ed He got el-e-vat-ed He got fab-u-lat-ed He got in-fil-trat-ed He got lib-er-at-ed He got mil-i-tat-ed He got ne-go-ti-at-ed He got oc-cup-at-ed He got per-pe-trat-ed He got re-pa-tri-at-ed He got sub-stan-ti-at-ed
On 3/3/1998 I was doing a final mix on Time Warp on the Miles From Mars album, released in 1999. The use of "Miles" was a tounge-in-cheek reference to Miles Davis. Some critics took it literally as if this was a jazz record.
Two singles, Side A/Side B: Younger You Become had a set of lyrics I never sang, but they formed the song structure. The lyrics were derived from a bit in Keith Haring's diary. The Vivian Maier photo I think works well for Kharita. Kharita was from a Pushkin poem, "Small wonder is it, Kharita? https://youtu.be/_liDufClYBs
The first video of existing music on specific days.
2/27/2005
Studio: "Thought Trains", conceived using E-G#-D-F# tuning, using a combination of natural harmonics and fretted notes, set against a polyrhythmic groove. *** Sometimes I keep revisiting things--in this case the tuning I used when I wrote it. It's my new experimental tuning to generate new material for Songdays. Also did a video on it recently (It was on the Rhythm By Addition album) Sum II: Songday will be a collective album where people will create music and audio art based on specific dates, similar to the date paintings of On Kawara. The work will be shared on social platforms under the hashtags #songday or #songdays and/or #songdalies.
The 3 main rules are as follows:
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