On This Day …

1965 – Velvet Underground made its performance debut at a high school dance in Summit, NJ.
1967 – The Supremes’ “In And Out Of Love” was released.
1970 – “Plastic Ono Band” was released by John Lennon. The same title was used for the album released by Yoko One on the same day.
1970 – Bob Dylan’s book “Tarantula” was published by Bantam Books.
1976 – KISS released the album “Rock and Roll Over.”

Inspiration vs. Science?

“We live in an era when the borders between human action and human made technical machines action are being vanished.” Zofia Lissa

In last blog we discussed transformation of cognitive process at moment of creating art work (i.e. composition). Accepting a computer as an active participant (as a “composer”) in a process of composing has shaken settled opinion about inspiration or artistic fantasy.

If there is a situation in which the energy no longer goes only in one direction – form man to machine – but the opposite – from machine to man, then we can speak about the effect of reversible coupling (cybernetic system).

What is even more interesting is a fact that computers work only by scientific principles unlike so called “artistic inspiration”. This is the fact that bothers many aesthetes and musical theorists.

From this point of view, computers break the myth about non-coupling connection between imagination (fantasy, creation) and strict scientific logic. As we already claimed in some of previous blogs, it is very certain that nowadays computers can compose music in the same way as human.

Now, we have another question that needs to be answered: do science and inspiration both have the same inner logic?

On This Day …

1770 – Composer Friedrich Witt was born.
1785 – Composer Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner was born.
1883 – Composer Sir Arnold Edward Trevor Bax was born.
1939 – Frank Sinatra’s recorded were “Every Day of My Life” and “Ciribiribin”.
1967 – John Lennon’s “How I Won the War” opened in the U.S. It was the first solo movie by a Beatle.
1986 – Metallica performed their first live concert with Jason Newstead.
2005 – The original “Guitar Hero” game was released in North America.

On This Day …

1935 – Composer Nicholas Maw was born.
1960 – Johnny Horton was killed in an auto accident in Milano, Texas at the age of 33. He had the hit “Battle of New Orleans.”
1995 – Queen released their first studio album since the death of Freddie Mercury.

On This Day …

1587 – Composer Samuel Scheidt was born.
1801 – Composer Vincenzo Bellini was born.
1992 – “Keep The Faith” by Bon Jovi was released. It was their first album in 5 years.
1997 – John Denver’s last recording, “The Unplugged Collection,” was released in the UK.
1998 – The live Bee Gees album “One Night Only” was released.

On This Day …

1739 – Composer Karl Ditters von Dittersdorf was born.
1915 – Composer Douglas Lilburn was born.
1962 – The Elvis Presley film “Girls! Girls! Girls!” premiered.
1963 – The Beach Boys’ “Be True To Your School” was released.
1968 – Stevie Wonder’s “For Once In My Life” was released.
1974 – George Harrison began his first tour in eight years.
1998 – Atlantic Records launched an online music video service, Instavid.

On This Day …

1685 – Composer Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti was born.
1694 – Composer Johan Helmich Roman was born.
1965 – The Beatles were awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) medals.
1978 – The Police played their first U.S. show in Boston at the Rat Club.
1981 – Queen and David Bowie record “Under Pressure” in Montreaux, Switzerland.
1998 – Eros Ramazzotti released his “Eros Live” album.
1998 – A U.S. federal judge refused to issue an injunction against the sale of MP3. The device is used to play music downloaded from the Internet. The Recording Industry Association of America had brought the case to court.

On This Day …

1941 – “Clarinet a la King” was recorded by Benny Goodman and his orchestra.
1962 – Steveland Morris Judkins, later known as Little Stevie Wonder, at the age of 12 recorded his first single. The song was “Thank you for Loving Me All the Way.”
1965 – “Turn! Turn! Turn!” was released by the Byrds.
1997 – The musical “Triumph of Love” opened at the Royale Theatre.

On This Day …

1811 – Composer Franz Liszt was born.
1832 – Founder of the New York Philharmonic, Leopold Damrosch, was born in Russia.
1883 – The Metropolitan Opera House held its grand opening in New York.
1917 – Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra in its first recording session.
1965 – “Get Off My Cloud” was released in the U.K. by the Rolling Stones.
1966 – The Beach Boys released the single “Good Vibrations.”
1974 – “Hotter Than Hell was released by KISS.
1983 – New York’s Metropolitan Opera celebrated its 100th anniversary.

On This Day …

1938 – The Bob Crosby Orchestra recorded “I’m Free.”
1967 – “I Second That Emotion” by Smokey Robinson & the Miracles was released by Tamla-Motown.
1979 – Prince’s second album “Prince” was released.