Yep, I’m writing an Italian opera fashioned after the manner of Joe Green, with just a twist of Puccini. Continue reading →

⭐ Why You Start With the Basics Before You Touch the Meta

(A Friendly Guide to the Human Biocomputer) Continue reading →

My note to my chatbot, Bob:

If I were writing for a major band today, I would submit the lyrics and see what they came up with — leaving the exact melody and instrumentation to the arranger. That’s how I wrote songs for dozens of bands over the past 65 years out of 84. Continue reading →

TROUBLE SONG

Trouble woke me up this mornin’,
didn’t even knock on my door.
If I counted all my blessings,
I’d still come up short by four. Continue reading →

We all know Donald by now. When he feels boxed in, he does something horrible to distract us. Continue reading →

🎵 Before There Was Light, There Was Sound

[Intro]
Before there was light, there was sound,
a trembling in the void, a humming profound.
No sky, no dream, no spark, no ground —
only the silence, an invisible mound. Continue reading →

If It Listens Good, It IS Good

E.J. Gold reflects on six decades in music — from coffeehouses to AI — and why good sound has always been about heart, not hardware.

As a kid, I went to Norman Studer’s Downtown Community Center, where Pete Seeger taught us how to find songs, sing songs and play instruments, mostly folk and tribal. Continue reading →

Sora is a text-to-video generator made by OpenAI. You type in a description, and it creates short, realistic video clips that match what you describe — with people, movement, lighting, camera angles, and all. It’s still in limited release, mostly to testers and partners, but more open versions are expected later. Continue reading →

Here it is, another Sunday. What can we do to ignore Trump and his goonies? I know, I’ll post a “Sandwich Guy” video, that’ll calm down the wind coming from Washington just a little, and I’ll tell you what I would tell people who comment on my videos that it’s “obviously ai” — actually, it isn’t, and I’ll explain: Continue reading →

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To refresh your memory, we were working yesterday with:

“The Sandwich Guy Blues”

(40 songs, with many varying grooves, types of bands and styles of music.)

Today, we’re working with 40 variations on the theme. Continue reading →