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  1. Nov 2022
    1. In late 2006, Eno released 77 Million Paintings, a program of generative video and music specifically for home computers. As its title suggests, there is a possible combination of 77 million paintings where the viewer will see different combinations of video slides prepared by Eno each time the program is launched. Likewise, the accompanying music is generated by the program so that it's almost certain the listener will never hear the same arrangement twice.

      Brian Eno's experiments in generative music mirror some of the ideas of generative and experimental fiction which had been in the zeitgeist and developing for a while.

      Certainly the fictional ideas were influential to the zeitgeist here, but the technology for doing these sorts of things in the musical realm lagged the ability to do them in the word realm.

      We're just starting to see some of these sorts of experimental things in the film space and with artificial intelligence they're becoming much easier to do in all of these media spaces.

      In some of the film spaces, they exist, but may tend to be short in nature, in part given the technology and processing power required.

      see also: Deepfake TikTok of Keanu Reeves which I've recently run across (algorithmically) on Instagram: https://www.dailydot.com/debug/unreal-keanu-reeves-ai-deepfake/

      Had anyone been working on generative art? Marcel Duchamp, et al? Some children's toys can mechanically create generative art which can be subtly modified by the children using axes of color, form, etc. Etch-a-sketch, kaleidoscopes, doodling robots (eg: https://www.amazon.com/4M-Doodling-Robot-Packaging-Vary/dp/B002EWWW9O).

    1. “People always say of great athletes that they have a sixth sense,” Malcolm Gladwell says in Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. “But it’s not a sixth sense. It’s memory.” Gladwell then analogizes James’ exacting memory to Simon’s. In the way James has precise recall of basketball game situations, Simon has it of sounds and songs. “Simon’s memory is prodigious,” Gladwell says. “There were thousands of songs in his head. And thousands more bits of songs—components—which appeared to have been broken down and stacked like cordwood in his imagination.”

      In Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon, Malcolm Gladwell comments on the prodigious memories of both Paul Simon with respect to sounds and Lebron James with respect to basketball game play.

      Where these sorts of situational memories built and exercised over time or were they natural gifts? Or perhaps natural gifts that were also finely tuned over time?

  2. Oct 2022
  3. Sep 2022
    1. Debaser987 May 8, 2017Reportreferencing Electr-O-Pura (CD, Album) OLE 132-2This is my favorite record of all time. Equal parts tender and fierce, this record challenges me as much as it entertains. Ira's shimmering guitar lines crackle with subtle complexities. Georgia's drumming is right in the pocket with James' hypnotic baselines. I've been getting lost in this record for years and every time I listen I find something new beneath the carefully crafted sonic layers. The songwriting is meditative, intimate, personal, and immediate. Pablo and Andrea is an absolute gem of a pop song. The virtuosic guitar solo on My Heart's Reflection equally melodic as it atonal. Tom Courtenay should be THE anthem of awkward indie kids everywhere. This record somehow manages to find balances between contradictions - harmony and dissonance, simplicity and complexity, chaos and order - and makes you believe they were never opposites in the first place.
      • OK, SAME opinion
    1. "You Oughta Know" signaled Morissette's departure from bubblegum pop to alternative rock, and features guitarist Dave Navarro and bassist Flea of Red Hot Chili Peppers
      • LISTEN!
    1. Mick Jagger contributed uncredited backing vocals for the song. When asked how this collaboration occurred, Simon said: He happened to call at the studio. … I said "We're doing some backup vocals on a song of mine, why don't you come down and sing with us?"[35]
    2. In 1983, she said the song was not about Mick Jagger,[9] who contributed uncredited backing vocals to it.[10
      • ok
      • back vocal
      • VAYA CRITICA!
    1. “La evolución de las costumbres”, incluso con una lírica de nuevo bastante elevada (“se hacen ferias de muestras de la modernidad, a los cuentos de niños se les cambia el final, son los tiempos modernos, que nos tocan vivir, se aplazó el sueño eterno, es mejor no reir”) y con el aura del post-rock
      • GOOD LYRICS!
  4. no80s-gruposnacionales.blogspot.com no80s-gruposnacionales.blogspot.com
    1. Mario Gil, simultaneando sus quehaceres en Un pingüino en mi ascensor, arranca un nuevo proyecto, en 2005, que lleva por nombre Kill Bill G, en la onda electrónica de Aviador Dro, a quienes, poco tiempo después se uniría.
      • ok
    1. Tras la disolución, Mario Gil inicia carrera como músico de sesión y colaborando con diversos grupos con Un Pingüino en mi Ascensor, así como componiendo sintonías para espacios televisivos, como la de El Precio Justo, o incluso musicando programas de televisión, como El Informal.
      • ok
    1. Education University of Miami MusicPiano 1982 - 1984 Classical and Jazz, Composition, Arrangements Bournemouth, England Music masterMusic Major 1978 - 1981 Classical Piano
      • MARIO GIL (La Mode)
    1. Espiando a mi vecina, Juegas con mi corazón y El Sendero Luminoso (me persigue sin reposo).
      • good
    2. Un Pingüino en mi Ascensor es un grupo musical español formado en los años 80 por el publicista José Luis Moro, cantante y compositor del grupo

      -ok

    1. El tema La evolución de las costumbres es considerado uno de los mejores temas del dark wave hecho en España.
      • MUY BUENA CANCION
      • A VERY GOOD SONG, A MASTERPIECE!
  5. Aug 2022
    1. At the time he was selling, Jay-Z was also coming up with rhymes. He normally wrote down his material in a green notebook he carried around with him — but he never took the notebook with him on the streets, he says. "I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice — anything just to get a paper bag," he says. "And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook. As I got further and further away from home and my notebook, I had to memorize these rhymes — longer and longer and longer. ... By the time I got to record my first album, I was 26, I didn't need pen or paper — my memory had been trained just to listen to a song, think of the words, and lay them to tape." Since his first album, he says, he's never written down any of his lyrics. "I've lost plenty of material," he says. "It's not the best way. I wouldn't advise it to anyone. I've lost a couple albums' worth of great material. ... Think about when you can't remember a word and it drives you crazy. So imagine forgetting an entire rhyme. 'What's that? I said I was the greatest something?' "

      In his youth, while selling drugs on the side, Jay-Z would write down material for lyrics into a green notebook. He never took the notebook around with him on the streets, but instead would buy anything at a corner store just for the paper bags as writing material. He would write the words onto these paper bags and stuff them into his pockets (wearable Zettelkasten anyone? or maybe Zetteltasche?) When he got home, in long standing waste book tradition, he would transfer the words to his notebook.

      Jay-Z has said he hasn't written down any lyrics since his first album, but warns, "I've lost plenty of material. It's not the best way. I wouldn't advise it to anyone. I've lost a couple albums' worth of great material."

      https://ondemand.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2010/11/20101116_fa_01.mp3

      Link to: https://hypothes.is/a/T3Z38uDUEeuFcPu2U_w_zA (Jonathan Edwards' zettelmantle)

    1. "I feel like I'm Gucci Mane in 2006All these diamonds dancing on my f**king neck cost like four bricksAnd the way that I be toting on that strap don’t make no senseHe a million dollar n***a but be posted in the bricks, uh"

      'Make no sense' - NBA Youngboy

    1. The Tegos Tapes is an interesting example of an obscure and heretofore unreleased Vangelis soundtrack unknown by many of even his most devoted fans.The Tegos Tapes were produced originally by the Greek medical professional Dr. Stergios Tegos, and contain educational examples of his microneurosurgery work. This VHS set of tapes was not intended for general release to the Public as these training videos were mainly intended for student surgeons in training or offered to other microneurosurgeons via Dr. Tegos exclusively.Dr. Tegos asked his close friend Vangelis to create a background soundtrack to accompany these videos and Vangelis agreed, composing nearly 8 hours of some of his more pleasing and ambient music. Dr. Tegos thought that a background musical score composed and performed by Vangelis himself would ease the monotony and dryness of the subject matter and help the viewer to focus more effectively.
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      I find it hilariously telling that Spotify's official, very-credentialed own Web API will not retrieve more than 50 fucking tracks from a playlist lmao.

      (I lied to you just then. I find it makes me want to commit systematic acts of violence on myself.) - WTF

    1. That’s how I started [regarding] it. I don’t read music, and I can’t write it either. I did it all by ear and feeling when I sat down at the piano…

      Lamont Dozier indicated in a 2019 interview that he couldn't read or write music despite having written countless hits in Motown

    1. Screwball – What The Deal Feat. Cormega (2002) (VLS) [Vinyl] [FLAC] [24-96]

      Download Screwball – What The Deal Feat. Cormega (2002) (VLS) [Vinyl] [FLAC] [24-96]

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