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Sentences As Tweets

 Recently, I read A Place For Everything--a book about books. What I found particularly interesting was the Decretum Gratiani--a highly annotated 13th century legal text.

Historian Ruth Ben-Ghiat asked on Twitter: Writers and journalists: Has @Twitter made you a better writer or more concise in your expression? Is there a firewall of sorts between your Twitter posts and other writing, or do the

Classification of Time

 This is the last day of the first two decades of the twenty-first century. It is a good time to spend even more time thinking about time.There are different kinds of clocks, “audio” clocks--time that we detect with pulsed sound;, or patterned silences, “vision” clocks--time we detect with vision (sometimes accompanied by sound), body clocks (embodied time), and “emotional” clocks, an internal

The White Key

 In 1993 and 1994, the Polish film director Krzysztof Kieślowski released the Three Colours trilogy, each filmed in either France, Poland, or Switzerland.As in David Lynch's use of the Blue Key in the film Mulholland Drive, Kieślowski uses the color blue (blue beads) as a thematic element, interconnecting with elements in White and Red.When I wrote The Blue Key post, the idea of a trilogy

The Red Key

 It's my Pantone color of the season.Back in 2016, there was an exhibition of eighteenth-century South American art at the Art Institute of Chicago. One painting I thought was particularly interesting was Our Lady of The Rosary of Chinquinquira by Joaquin Gutierrez. The artist signed the back of the painting with the notation "touched in the original", meaning his copy of the painting was made in

The Blue Key

  Extremely rare events such as the 2020 conjunction are generative of conspiracy theories. One of my favorite films by David Lynch is Mulholland Drive. One of the scenes involves the mysterious appearance of a Blue Key. Ever since its release there has been lots of speculation about the meaning of this object. One of the most interesting things in art is ambiguity; One of the most interesting

Heuristics in Music

 The above chart is based on my Interval Cubes art series which are my own Froebel blocks for music. Friedrich Froebel made a set of blocks back in eighteenth century, and Frank Lloyd Wright was inspired by them. Music is also a symmetrical block system with 12 equal intervals, subdivided notes values, and so on. Music, at least for me, is more of a Systematizing Mechanism (See the interesting

Connectomes

I wasn't always bookish. When I was a teenager I was very much the opposite. It wasn't until I saw the connection between my innate creative urge and what books have to offer.  The way that my mind is connected naturally connects to information in books. I am also a very nonlinear reader: Essentially what I'm looking for are connections to things I'm always thinking about. (Hypertext highly

AI as a Tool

Les Paul sitting at his Console, 1958AI won't change music like multi-track recording or MIDI did. Tools assist creativity, they don't eliminate it. To the extent that tools are also machines (as AI is a machine) it could smooth out the rough edges of "hand tools"; Tools are also a work-in-progress, and improvements in the tools used in creativity make innovation more of a possibility (simply by

1998@22

Still from "Pi"What becomes clear after reading through all my diary entries is that films and TV were powerful forces on how the future would spin out. Of course, novels did the same thing, but images combined with words, sound, and music--then delivered on the Internet--allowed ideas to escape the confines of mere words.I began to notice a change in weather patterns in the winter and spring, or

Music of Language (Cont.)

On the versatility of writing:For as long as I can remember, I was always hearing the music in language. This is logical because both share patternicity--as well as generativity based on those patterns.In the latest edition of Dynaxiom, I have begun to include musical notation for entries that I think are inherently musical. Some of them have already turned into recorded songs, or at least demos