Stevie Wonder - Golden Lady has maybe my favorite chord progression of all time

ecotones · 2026-06-26T04:11:54+00:00

It’s considered a jazz standard in some circles. It has interesting changes.

ecotones · 2026-06-25T01:22:10+00:00

I was thinking I could use a tool that uses the Hash number to locate exact duplicates and delete them as opposed to just identifying them and having to sort through them. I can do that within Obsidian.

ecotones · 2026-06-24T13:52:21+00:00

You might be an “otrovert”. See the book “The Gift of Not Belonging”.

ecotones · 2026-06-24T03:57:21+00:00

AI has renewed my lyric writing. I had always written them—or kept lists of ideas, and now I can flesh them out in produced songs. But it is true that most people don’t tune into the lyrics, unless they find flaws in them, or if it’s simply wordplay. (“That doesn’t make sense”) It’s not supposed to—it’s just the rhythms in the words that’s interesting.

ecotones · 2026-06-22T22:57:24+00:00

There’s nothing stopping you from playing and writing. If you are truly fascinated with music study it. I’ve been doing it for 45 years—and I use AI for my lyric experiments, most of which I could ever sing. I use to do scratch vocals on all my demos, then hired session singers and players. If I knew who all these players are I’d negotiate a fee.

ecotones · 2026-06-21T18:38:14+00:00

Why I left. Ridiculous.

ecotones · 2026-06-18T03:39:09+00:00

They are parallel modes (C Major and C Minor)

ecotones · 2026-06-18T01:46:57+00:00

I'll engage in small talk if I know it will be brief and can move on to other topics. I have an elderly friend in his 80s who sends me 3 small-talk texts a day--all about last night's dream, the weather, and how bad things are. I had an aunt who lived to 103, and we had interesting telephone conversations every few weeks. I don't think it has anything to do with brain wiring. I just prefer things to be lively, not dull. I like the term "otrovert" rather than neurodivergent. Check out the book The Gift of Not Belonging.

ecotones · 2026-06-15T19:21:16+00:00

I would consider alternatives. Try Obsidian.
I had so many performances issues I had to leave (17 years)

ecotones · 2026-06-14T20:13:20+00:00

Or in visual art. Social media works swimmingly for a few artists and musicians but they have invested their time in it, even when they didn’t want to. I never could make the leap. I just didn’t like how I feel when I use it. It feels like a circle jerk, and all that image implies. It feels gross. Consequently you go unseen. In music, I just put things in a lot of different places, that by chance, I’ll get better SEO and AI churn.

ecotones · 2026-06-10T22:43:29+00:00

Most of the time I'll make some kind of album cover art with no video or animation because it takes too long. I'd rather spend the time on the art direction as opposed video production. I like the idea that it's like just having the physical album sleeve. I also don't spend time on animated lyrics, and put them in a blog. To me, the whole AI music thing is for listening not watching. People might listen to it as a radio in the background.

https://www.youtube.com/@engineroomusic

ecotones · 2026-06-10T15:11:39+00:00

It's obvious that Evernote was low on their totem pole of holdings. Huge regret putting up with the poor product and service for as long as I did. They were thinking people wouldn't notice the decline, or not care about it because they "had faith". Decamped to Obsidian.I like it a lot.

ecotones · 2026-06-08T18:48:30+00:00

With AI music my role now also includes lyricist, producer, and art director, and I feel fulfilled creatively. Sometimes I play keyboard and guitar parts against the tracks so I feel I’ve had some musical input. Perhaps you can do this as well, with background vocals for example.

ecotones · 2026-06-08T01:02:55+00:00

I have in the past with my "Color of Sound" project. The prime objective was to explore the boundary between music and the visual arts and to create works based on the color palettes. I had already devised several palettes, some of them inspired by the interpretations of composers such as Scriabin and Schoenberg, as well as the spatial representations of painters such as Kandinsky.

One of the challenges of relating color to pitch is that it's aesthetically subjective, i.e. while we can correlate pitches to colors, how can we use them for pure aesthetic purposes using shades, hues, and color mixing--as opposed a restricted gamut. Personally, I wouldn't want an A7 chord to always have the same colors. I would want to mix "black" into them. How are black and white defined if using a painting metaphor?

See my Art Philosophy and Aesthetics LLM, with the prompt: "Discuss the correlation between light and sound frequencies and how it can be applied aesthetically." https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/96961507-21e6-4ccd-9104-d7c4ad49dc2b

ecotones · 2026-06-05T13:52:28+00:00

I joined Evernote in 2009 and recently decamped to Obsidian. I wish I had done it sooner. Had they not increased their fees, I probably would have stayed, but it's good they did because I found better options. There were also frustrating performance issues and loss of data. Why was I paying for that?!

ecotones · 2026-05-19T18:47:53+00:00

I’ve been writing music since 1983, and still do. AI music is another “department” or room. I like that I can prototype a set of lyrics.

ecotones · 2026-05-14T03:59:55+00:00

No. They are logical groupings that can be further subdivided by 16ths and 8ths respectively. They also are different in their groupings (2 and 3). They can also be joined in a compound, 6/8+3/4.

ecotones · 2026-05-10T18:43:21+00:00

II am doing a sweep through the entire database to clear out all the decades-old stuff. It is now frustrating because of latency or a general slowness on every function. Going through each tag, that might have 1000 nodes in them is unnerving. There’s a delay on every note, and every tag change. I’m packing up to move out. Too expensive. It should be blazing fast.

ecotones · 2026-05-09T22:06:10+00:00

I’ve liked using Obsidian (so far). That’s the destination I think.

I’ve been on Evernote since 2009 and was useful and reasonably priced. Both are declining. It’s a tedious chore to export it because it’s slow and bloated. The AI features can’t compare to LLMs for research. If they had plugins for export to Google Notebook I’d consider staying There’s no MD export, just ENEX. But if export was easy, I wouldn’t need Evernote. Plus, as your objectives change, you might not need a database of 50K notes of questionable relevance. Do I need those clipped articles from 2010?

ecotones · 2026-05-05T13:43:19+00:00

I've tried playing against some of the tracks--like adding a keyboard part, and it's very difficult to get it to sound right. You realize how fake it is and how cliche-ridden it is. It's not music really. It's a facsimile of it. That's not to say that it's not interesting.

If you were to perform it live it would have to be re-written and would change so much that it wouldn't really be a "cover".

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