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...or do they own us? Ideas may be meant to be shared, and are not proprietary. Is it “all mine” or “all ours”? My prediction is that everyone will choose to do everything themselves, and where skills are lacking, software will fill in the gap. Ideas will be both proprietary and shared in the sense that even a quarter note or an eighth notes can have rights associated with it. But it will destry matural heirarchies that have allowed music to evolve in the way that it has. The film Get Back is a window into how ideas get negotiated. Perhaps the best collaborations are mostly about negotiation.

The book: Ottolenghi Flavor: A Cookbook 

Like the Difference Mode in Photoshop, we can apply the metaphor to neural nets.

At what point do we know a project has reached its creative potential? Continuing on with something that is generative may be preventing new ideas to be developed.

Every new medium extends the options and possibilities for audio and video production. The Metaverse will probably enhance spatiality in music--or at least we'll be thinking more about it.

Listen on Bandcamp: https://leebarry1.bandcamp.com/track/route-285-new-mexico

Background on this Cindy Sherman photo (still).

Even though this is exclusively a streaming album, I do spend a lot of time sequencing the tracks as if they would be pressed to vinyl.  

The album is geographically ordered moving south and east from California, through New Mexico (with a trip to the Moon) then into Texas, then Mississippi, then skipping to NYC, then overseas. If pressed on vinyl, Side 2 would begin in Switzerland, then into Kashmir, and ending in Vietnam. 

Titles, places, and the photographers. The titles are the search that you would do to find the photograph, so essentially it's an "Easter Egg" album. For example "Still 21" will locate that photo immediately.

Side 1:

01. Every Building On the Sunset Strip/Havenhurst [Ed Ruscha, Los Angeles]

Side 2:

01. Boden Sea 1993 [Hiroshi Sugimoto, Uttwil, Switzerland]

The things we've always valued in culture ripple through the generations. They're like gravitational waves which affect us in subtle ways.

While a song can have atmosphere, atmosphere can't have too much "song" in it. Classical music is "atmospheric" in some sense, but has a through-composed structure. Even though ambient music doesn't have structure, spatiotemporality creates form over time in context of all the songs on an ambient album, or in an ambient playlist.