What I played + wrote today — Day 229 — Fri, 16 Aug ’24

Studio log: 1.25 hr music + 1.75 hr words + new music video (attached)

• Wrote on the roles of artist in society, championship, who’s responsible and how (30 mins)

• Wrote on the incompatibility between art that’s self-evidently great vs. art that’s novel (30 mins)

• Wrote about the showing of what goes into the art (30 mins)

• Wrote team communications (15 mins)

♪ Approaches to Take the A Train, increasingly out (15 mins)

♪ Freeform composition: dotted drone, ostinatos, polyrhythms (60 mins)

🎧 Today’s soundtrack: The Cure — Lullaby

📸 Photo taken by me on this day in 2011, Catania, Sicily.

🎞️ Sync’ed to 85s of improvisation excerpt from the vault, titled “the woolly mammoth unthaws”.