Glad to see your comment. I remember you from your work with World Magazine and that you kindly shared some of my work at the time. Hope the interview goes great!
I'm supposed to use it for a piece at spinmagazine.com that will run close to the release date of his new album. So the Q&A itself won't drop, just the parts most conducive to narrative flow.
I’m currently trying my best to follow in Ted’s footsteps—I got accepted to Oxford for my BPhil (basically a master’s equivalent in philosophy) a few weeks ago and am waiting to hear back on some scholarships. If nothing else, at least I can tell people I got in, lol.
I’m in the early stages of taking a leap of faith into a Music Career! Hoping to piece together a combination of gigs, sessions, and lessons on guitar, banjo, bass, and (my true love) harmonica. If you know any musicians in New England who have ever had the thought “this project I’m working on needs blues harp,” direct them to http://instagram.com/elise_blues :)
Fascinating! I’m from Northeast Louisiana, where some of the earliest earthworks are found (some 5,000 years old), and not far from Poverty Point, which is probably the first city in North America.
I was researching Indigenous earthworks, including the ancient Mounds near you, before discovering this legacy of Indigenous stonework in the northeast. I still hope to one day visit Poverty Point & some of the other earthworks in your area.
Message me if you’d like to see some of my photographs from Poverty Point. I’ve hosted a number of landscape photography workshops there. It’s utterly spellbinding, clearly a place of great revelation.
Producing and hosting a 5 hour radio program for tonight celebrating the music of Billie Holiday in the first 20 minutes of each hour. Jazz From Blue Lake airs every weeknight starting at 10 eastern and repeats on our Jazz stream the next day (what, you don’t want to stay up to 3 am w me?) over www.bluelakeradio.org
Very nice. Have a great practice! 10pm-3am .We’re including the new batch of Resonance Records releases for record store day: Yusef Lateef, Ahmad Jamal, etc, live at The Jazz Showcase in Chicago.
Right on, thank you so much! It was a really fun project to compose/perform/record, though...other than the whole 'aligning the schedules of 12 busy professional musicians' thing. That part, no as fun. :) Thanks for listening and the kind words.
I recently wrote an essay on Tourette Syndrome, AI Tics, and the War for Originality. An excerpt: "My life stands in stark contrast to the metronomic, tight, polished nature of AI writing, which follows similar patterns and takes the road always taken as opposed to that trod much less often.
AI is a failure-avoidance machine. It won’t make a typo. It won’t say something cringe. It won’t ramble or stammer or deliver a line full of ummms or uhhhs or likes or you knows. It will keep you polished, and that polish, which is quite literally a thin veneer of protection, is starting to look less like competence and more like a tell.
My tics are just the punctuation of my reality. And, for sometimes better or oftentimes worse, they cannot be faked."
I've come to appreciate this my own live music. My voice cracks. I play the wrong chord. I forget my own lyrics and make up stuff, mumble, or repeat the previous lyrics. Lately its become less of source of imperfection, but more of sense of authenticity.
i just read your story and it's awesome. Adding strategic imperfections to emails is something i should try 😂😂 then again, AI might even replicate that too...
I used to work so hard to make sure my work emails were mistake-free, thank you for giving me permission not to stress about that anymore! Your article was informative and I read every word..
I am deep into writing what I hope will be my finest piece of work shared on my Substack: a long, multi-part essay on Laura Nyro, and also trying to make headway on a 33 1/3 book proposal on Elvis Presley's 'Elvis is Back!' April around these parts is all dedicated to passion projects!
Robert, Do you know the story of Laura's audition tape before two music biz. people who ask if she can sing any :"standids? They don't like any of her songs, which included several future hits, and she makes some halfhearted attempts to sing other people's songs, before breaking down in tears. Someone made copies of this audition tape, and I heard one years ago. One of the two geniuses listening to her, was music luminary Artie Mogull.
Years ago I did a fair amount of studio work in New York. One one session was a drummer named Buddy Saltzman. He had just done over 20 sessions with Laura. He was entirely puzzled by her, and he mentioned that at one point he wanted to hear him play "more orange." He had no clue what she was talking about, and told this story from the standpoint of "aren't all artists crazy! They're not stable, like studio musicians are! "
I do and will be including that whole exchange in the first part of the essay. I would have loved to hear her sing the whole of 'When Sunny Gets Blue' and her attempt at a re-harmonized 'Kansas City' is fascinating. For his part, Mogull admitted years after the audition how dopey he felt asking her to sing other people's songs.
From all I have read, she thought of music in colours, objects and other things entirely unrelated to music.
I’m playing at my 257th open mic tonight in the Research Triangle in NC, and I’m preparing for my 300th open mic later this year. At my 300th open mic, I plan to cover Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill “ (I need plenty of time to practice and memorize it) and debut some new original songs if I have any when the day arrives.
I'm supposed to be interviewing Ringo Starr in two hours and twenty minutes.
You win.
Glad to see your comment. I remember you from your work with World Magazine and that you kindly shared some of my work at the time. Hope the interview goes great!
Where will this interview drop?
I'm supposed to use it for a piece at spinmagazine.com that will run close to the release date of his new album. So the Q&A itself won't drop, just the parts most conducive to narrative flow.
Welp, not going to beat that!
I quite like the new singles. Looking forward to the full record. Tell him I said hey
Amazing!
Laying the groundwork for an AI-free publishing press...
You go, girl!
I love It! Best of luck!
I love this!
Awesome! Can you describe this more...? (you can email me at tiffany@humancreative.org)
My husband and I will share details on School of the Unconformed :)
Great! Subscribed.
I’m about to release my debut LP with my nu-jazz trio! We’re so proud ❤️ still not out yet but soon: https://www.future3.eu/
New music. Yay!
Awesome. The bassline on NoSlip at 1:50 made smile. Band sounds great, thanks for sharing!
I’m currently trying my best to follow in Ted’s footsteps—I got accepted to Oxford for my BPhil (basically a master’s equivalent in philosophy) a few weeks ago and am waiting to hear back on some scholarships. If nothing else, at least I can tell people I got in, lol.
Good luck, Patrick! The world could use more Teds.
I’m in the early stages of taking a leap of faith into a Music Career! Hoping to piece together a combination of gigs, sessions, and lessons on guitar, banjo, bass, and (my true love) harmonica. If you know any musicians in New England who have ever had the thought “this project I’m working on needs blues harp,” direct them to http://instagram.com/elise_blues :)
I’m researching and investigating the little-known legacy of Indigenous Stonework in the Northeast — did you know the oldest stone construction in Massachusetts was a 4000-year-old Indigenous-built stone wall found by archaeologists in the 1970’s in a Rockshelter in Marlborough, MA? Never well-publicized. https://ancientstonemysteries.substack.com/p/ancient-stone-mysteries-of-new-england-350?r=1gv1v&utm_medium=ios
My husband https://substack.com/@benweirdo would looooooove this.
My father in law would go mad for this!
Keep on exploring, there is much to find in the woods of New England.
Fascinating! I’m from Northeast Louisiana, where some of the earliest earthworks are found (some 5,000 years old), and not far from Poverty Point, which is probably the first city in North America.
I was researching Indigenous earthworks, including the ancient Mounds near you, before discovering this legacy of Indigenous stonework in the northeast. I still hope to one day visit Poverty Point & some of the other earthworks in your area.
Message me if you’d like to see some of my photographs from Poverty Point. I’ve hosted a number of landscape photography workshops there. It’s utterly spellbinding, clearly a place of great revelation.
I'm performing a live comedy cooking show in Brooklyn, New York this weekend 4/10-11. It was a sold out show at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest and I'm running in NYC. Come on out if you live in the area! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/enjoy-your-meal-cory-cavin-tickets-1985324959397
Amazing. Break an egg! ;)
yes, there we go!
Food and funny!? Sounds awesome
I am documenting ideological subversion in museums. The Victims of Communism Museum is a stark contrast with the National Portrait Gallery: https://yuribezmenov.substack.com/p/victims-of-communism-museum-portrait-gallery
That museum gets a mention in my latest novel.
I would be curious your thoughts on the (British) Imperial War Museum?
Producing and hosting a 5 hour radio program for tonight celebrating the music of Billie Holiday in the first 20 minutes of each hour. Jazz From Blue Lake airs every weeknight starting at 10 eastern and repeats on our Jazz stream the next day (what, you don’t want to stay up to 3 am w me?) over www.bluelakeradio.org
(what, you don’t want to stay up to 3 am w me?)
Here we call that 8pm. I'll see if it can stream it tonight after practice :) Thanks for sharing!
Very nice. Have a great practice! 10pm-3am .We’re including the new batch of Resonance Records releases for record store day: Yusef Lateef, Ahmad Jamal, etc, live at The Jazz Showcase in Chicago.
Last fall I recorded a 74 minute suite I composed for 12 musicians (5 horns, piano, bass, cello, and 4 drummer/mallet percussionists): https://nathanclevenger.bandcamp.com/album/astrolabe
Thanks in advance to anyone who cares to take a listen!
Listening now...Love how it touches on and merges so many idioms. Very fun to listen to.
Right on, thank you so much! It was a really fun project to compose/perform/record, though...other than the whole 'aligning the schedules of 12 busy professional musicians' thing. That part, no as fun. :) Thanks for listening and the kind words.
I Will listen soon
Thank you!
Love it!! Will purchase ASAP!
Hey, that's so kind of you, thank you and delighted to hear you dig it.
Liking it!
That's very kind of you to say; thanks for listening!
I made a remix of an interview with author Donna Tartt. My best work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrKt3eSvCZo
Unexpected in the best way! Now i have read that book she wrote...
This is so fun!
Love it! Bad ass!
Just started a pub here. Literature, music, visual art, thought. Other fragments and odds and ends. Was inspired by recent Brad Mehldau post:
https://pal0mar.substack.com/p/impersonal-best?r=lzbbf&utm_medium=ios
I'm having a weekly lunch with friends, and all we do is eat and talk with each other. It's one of the best events of the week.
I recently wrote an essay on Tourette Syndrome, AI Tics, and the War for Originality. An excerpt: "My life stands in stark contrast to the metronomic, tight, polished nature of AI writing, which follows similar patterns and takes the road always taken as opposed to that trod much less often.
AI is a failure-avoidance machine. It won’t make a typo. It won’t say something cringe. It won’t ramble or stammer or deliver a line full of ummms or uhhhs or likes or you knows. It will keep you polished, and that polish, which is quite literally a thin veneer of protection, is starting to look less like competence and more like a tell.
My tics are just the punctuation of my reality. And, for sometimes better or oftentimes worse, they cannot be faked."
More: https://www.whitenoise.email/p/when-the-tic-is-the-tell
This is great.
I've come to appreciate this my own live music. My voice cracks. I play the wrong chord. I forget my own lyrics and make up stuff, mumble, or repeat the previous lyrics. Lately its become less of source of imperfection, but more of sense of authenticity.
thanks for sharing. I'm subscribed!
Thank you Marc!
i just read your story and it's awesome. Adding strategic imperfections to emails is something i should try 😂😂 then again, AI might even replicate that too...
Thank you!!
I used to work so hard to make sure my work emails were mistake-free, thank you for giving me permission not to stress about that anymore! Your article was informative and I read every word..
Thank you for reading along!!
Brilliant and original piece of writing, Tom.
Thank you!
I am deep into writing what I hope will be my finest piece of work shared on my Substack: a long, multi-part essay on Laura Nyro, and also trying to make headway on a 33 1/3 book proposal on Elvis Presley's 'Elvis is Back!' April around these parts is all dedicated to passion projects!
Robert, Do you know the story of Laura's audition tape before two music biz. people who ask if she can sing any :"standids? They don't like any of her songs, which included several future hits, and she makes some halfhearted attempts to sing other people's songs, before breaking down in tears. Someone made copies of this audition tape, and I heard one years ago. One of the two geniuses listening to her, was music luminary Artie Mogull.
Years ago I did a fair amount of studio work in New York. One one session was a drummer named Buddy Saltzman. He had just done over 20 sessions with Laura. He was entirely puzzled by her, and he mentioned that at one point he wanted to hear him play "more orange." He had no clue what she was talking about, and told this story from the standpoint of "aren't all artists crazy! They're not stable, like studio musicians are! "
I do and will be including that whole exchange in the first part of the essay. I would have loved to hear her sing the whole of 'When Sunny Gets Blue' and her attempt at a re-harmonized 'Kansas City' is fascinating. For his part, Mogull admitted years after the audition how dopey he felt asking her to sing other people's songs.
From all I have read, she thought of music in colours, objects and other things entirely unrelated to music.
Interesting, Just like Joni Mitchell
I’m playing at my 257th open mic tonight in the Research Triangle in NC, and I’m preparing for my 300th open mic later this year. At my 300th open mic, I plan to cover Kate Bush’s “Running Up That Hill “ (I need plenty of time to practice and memorize it) and debut some new original songs if I have any when the day arrives.