Lee Barry's Blog, page 28

Once You Learn To Sing You Never Stop Talking

There have been a number of articles that have come out in the past couple of years on why we hate the sound of our own voices.I think a lot of this depends on several things: the time of day (my voice is deeper in the mornings before breakfast), higher mid-day, then lower in the evenings.I probably would do my best singing in the mornings, preferably in a vocal booth.When I was taking singing

Editing Spontaneity

Sometimes it takes a long time to express what we mean. We get ideas for songs, essays, and so on, but they usually don't work right out of the box. I can dictate something, and it may or may not articulate what I really wanted to say, even though I'm just talking freely. If you dictate your writing, you usually have to heavily revise it to mean what you meant to say.Sometimes rather than

Why These Enormous Chandeliers?

  With more people using AI as a means to make product (what used to be called "to be creative"), it now seems that having original ideas--or even the desire to create something from an original idea--is somehow quaint and sentimental. The allure of artificial intelligence is that we're now going to have machines manufacture our content, and there's no need for us to be intimately involved in it

NFTs: the new 'Hypegeist'?

   In Frank Wilczek's latest book Fundamentals: Ten Keys to Reality he made an interesting point that stuck with me:"Our ancestors inhabited a distinct sensory universe. It is difficult to imagine a world without eyeglasses, mirrors, magnifying lenses, microscopes and telescopes, artificial lighting and flashlights, clocks and watches, smoke alarms, thermometers, barometers, and a host of other

Imagine All the Beeple (Cont)

 
Ever since I've become interested in the blockchain around 2014--and more recently the "NFTs"--I find myself more "engaged" with the "new" digital art on a daily basis--just because you can't avoid it.There are few that are actually interesting. But most of them seem like graphics that I would have used on my first website in 1998. None seem to be compelling enough to inspire me--as would a

The Sound of a Photograph

View of Sharingtons Tower at Lacock Abbey--Henry Fox TalbotHere is a photo that evokes a loud scraping sound. What kind of force could gouge so deeply into a piece of granite? Or was it the cumulative effect of softer sounds over time?Our sonic Umwelt is so tiny--not only by the range of hearing--but by the world itself. We only hear a limited range of imaginable sounds that occur in the world,

Seasonal Metaphors

One of the great things about observance of holidays is that it reminds us of the consistent cycles on the Earth. We also use cycles as metaphors, such as the seasons metaphor in the book The Fourth Turning. According to the Fourth Turning hypothesis, we are currently in winter (Crucifixion), and Easter perhaps is a way to think about the spring (Resurrection) that might be coming--although we

Scattering Ideas

A good way to work on something is to work on something else. Obviously, we've all heard this before as a matter of incubation in the creative process. While it is in fact incubation, it is also a matter of shuffling the sequence of tasks involved in creating a final product.What I like to do in music is to work on the visual art, and perhaps listen to some music that may inform the music that

Media Nostalgias

Everyone has a media history somewhere in their dwelling. Mine goes back to vinyl and cassettes. I also have an old Ampex reel-to-reel tape that my late cousin Mark (born 1930) had sent me, always unplayable, but I don't want to discard it. Old media are essentially like old photographs, which can sometimes be entirely fungible. Even if you don't know who the people are, there's always a

Imagine All the Beeple

  My thoughts on Beeple (audio unedited), Easier to talk than type.