Riffs

More re: Boulez:

"The way we conceive of the world of sound has long tended towards standardization of all its phenomena, at whatever level of pertinence they operate. The exclusion of all scales other than major and minor modes, and the establishment of equal temperament, was motivated by the most stringent standardization, allowing only a limited number of relationships within a given set of functions. Our instrumental world has tended towards purity of sound, according to one or another timbre, reducible to an abstract idea that can't be easily embodied in a previously established pitch hierarchy."

(Sorry for the clicks--the vinyl was scratched...)

"Responsibility is taken through general rules for driving one note, or group of notes, from another. When we introduced aleatoric elements and then pure chance into our dealings with sound, so that material was no longer chosen but rather provided externally, we forgot this fundamental fact of musical language, that each element depends on every other one. The derivation of one motive or interval from another, or of the vertical dimension from the horizontal, our processes that seem to be indispensable if coherence is to be achieved, if language is to be necessary."

Music Lessons: The Collège de France Lectures

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Music_Lessons/CssHwwEACAAJ?hl=en

“Railway time” arrived in America too, splitting the country into four distinct time zones and causing protests to flare nationwide. The Boston Evening Transcript demanded, “Let us keep our own noon,” and The Cincinnati Commercial Gazette wrote, “Let the people of Cincinnati stick to the truth as it is written by the sun, moon and stars.” https://www.noemamag.com/the-tyranny-of-time/

Emotion is sometime a mechanical operation in music (Apollonian as opposed to Dionysian).

The James song is "Born of Frustration"

Musical instruments as unique "containers" of music.

A run-down of the series. All are released on Bandcamp: https://leebarry1.bandcamp.com/

The reason I wanted to set music to this photo (and subsequent painting) is perhaps with the same wonder and fascination of the original artist. This style of architecture (the dingbat, each with a unique signature) is decidedly Southern California: modern, streamlined, care-free, "breezy", and leisurely. ("Beautiful blue skies and golden sunshine--all along the way...")

At the beginning of the piece is one of David Lynch's daily weather reports, as a kind of DJ leader.

It's interesting that when I was doing the airy synth parts, the weather was exactly like the weather in L.A. per Lynch's weather report.

Bandcamp: https://leebarry1.bandcamp.com/album/music-for-places-v-music-for-photographs