June 10ths
6/10/1907 (Paris)
(Harry Kessler Diary)
Chat with Maurice Denis about possible revolution in France—that it wasn't a revolution per se but rather a "change in ownership". Also talked about the Russian Revolution and barbarism of classes attempting to seize power and how French kings made French culture. Rouart: "as soon as a class begins to get a little culture, one smashes them. The opposite in England."
[Between these two entries are two world wars and two wars in Southeast Asia, and a postwar zeitgeist driven by advances in technology that wouldn’t have been imaginable in 1907, although the industrial revolution, driven by war machines made it possible. The idea of revolution is evergreen].
6/10/1968
(Beatles Studio Diary)
Beatles in Studio 3 recording Revolution 9.
6/10/2002
Watched Mystery Train (second viewing). Lights went out right when the Japanese girl said, "Hello, Goodnight."
6/10/2005
Article in Tribune about Japan's criticism of China's history texts. Sometimes books and films about history say more about history than history itself. Recording history is like remembering a dream: fragments stitched together into a narrative.
Interesting: Physical media for music have constraints built right in; for example, vinyl (45-60 minutes), the CD (60-75), the 45 (8 minutes both sides). When the medium is a sound file there are virtually no duration constraints. How does it affect the content and ideas about content?
Interview with Rob Halford on Fresh Air. I liked what he said about how what you wear determines identity and motivation to succeed, in his case, leather. "I got dressed and started screaming."
Field Audio: Lurie Garden and Millennium Park, Gehry Bridge, Centennial Park, Pritzker Pavilion for Bassekou Ngoni Ba concert.
6/10/2011
Imagine what a 21st century Dada movement would look and sound like. It would certainly be much more radical than Lady Gaga. Lady Gaga is downright Victorian compared to what the first generations post-Singularity would create.
[6/10/2024: AI-generated music is in essence a form of Dada, but if you don’t know what it is it can’t have the same conceptual meanings.]
6/10/2017
To use an analogy from music, anyone that can work well with software (including programming) can construct some kind of audio art, which can be considered music per se. The history of pop music keeps expanding and can absorb new forms. Potentially, art might follow this same path.
[AI music and art are primarily software-driven].
6/10/2021
This morning there was a beautiful annular eclipse that happened at sunrise. It's so interesting that those two things happen together. If you look at the earth map, as the sun rises across the globe, the moon is passing in front of the sun so there's two events happening at the horizon.
6/10/2023
The origin of Hobson-Jobson: From the Arabic lament “ḥasan ḥusayn” misspoken by British as Hossy Gossy or Hossein Jossen, then settled on Hobson-Jobson. Hobson and Jobson were actually two clown characters in Victorian literature. English buckaroo and cockroach are the results of Hobson-Jobson, coming from Spanish vaquero and cucaracha.