Rampage to Improve the WorldI am intrigued by Textio and the idea of the automated real-time, in-flow generation of text. I can see how this can work in music as well…Oct 20, 2024Oct 20, 2024
Sound As Information2010 was the first year that I got my first pair of ear mics and a portable recorder. What I was most interested in was finding places that…Jul 18, 2024Jul 18, 2024
Creative AmnesiaBoomers were “radio natives” just as there are now social media natives. I listened to top-40 radio in the 70s as did everyone because it…Jun 18, 2024Jun 18, 2024
Representational FramesWhat I see in AI music now are the same old tropes of the merging of man and machine. But in context with that, there are lots of other…Jun 16, 2024Jun 16, 2024
Genre ReputationsWhy does any kind of music have a “reputation”? I never thought it did. I found it interesting harmonically vis-a-vis traditional classical…Jun 13, 2024Jun 13, 2024
Exploring The Traditional In The ConceptualEverything I’ve ever done in visual art has been postmodernist precisely because it was driven by ideas. Not that my music isn’t. In fact…Mar 16, 2024Mar 16, 2024
Zones Of InterestTexting is a form of small talk, even though people are now dictating texts and they are getting quite long. This may indicate that people…Feb 18, 2024Feb 18, 2024
Alternate Tunings For LifeLast night I had a conversation with a friend about how we perceive music as guitar players. His way of looking at the instrument as…Feb 11, 2024Feb 11, 2024