this reminds me of some '40s or '50s abstract art from Mexico I saw once - am temporarily blanking on the name - a german surname, as I recall - anyway this is all from internet - hat tip hollaholla for the magnetic lasso
October 2010
too-late Pop
Why you should wait a day before posting. Wrote this in a fit of pique after someone dissed animated GIFs:
Was being mildly ironic: the "pop art" link went to an '80s painting of a Jack Kirby panel that I was calling "late pop." The point was you can make whatever continuities you want with GIFs, or not, but to peg them solely as a late '90s relic was as limiting as definitively calling them art.
The text above was screen captured and posted to dump.fm by a, er, vocal Dumper who thinks calling online activity "net art" is the height of pretension (as best I can make out from his complaints). I wish I could make every post nuanced since I am no fan of most things self-consciously described as "net art" either but sometimes you just get annoyed.
"Jazz Combo Demo"
"Jazz Combo Demo" [mp3 removed]
Or, as the band Fear sang 30 years ago, "New York is all right if you like saxophones."
Am continuing to explore music writing, off and on, through the vehicle of the "jazz quartet simulacrum." The piano part is the spine; bass, sax and drums drop in and out as needed. One MIDI loop was used--the drum part, playing two different kits and with minor alterations.
I found some old videos of Bill Evans' group playing in the '60s and although this isn't nearly as sensitive, am interested in that model for a more artificial kind of music. Evans has a mathematical mind and works through many tonal variations in real time without hitting "wrong" notes. That's kind of what I like to write (at sub-light speed) in the piano roll, although I like passages where the notes go off the rails occasionally (which doesn't really happen here).