October 26ths
10/26/1933
From 803 Griffith Park Bvld in Santa Monica, John Cage writes to Henry Cowell. He is currently working on the Sonata for Two Voices.
10/26/1997, Sunday
Worked on “Dome City” concept idea.
[Dome City was ultimately released in October 2006].
This is a song idea based on these two disparate entries. Ultimately, it could be antiphonal in some way, with the words replaced, yet retaining the original roots to Cage. That address in Santa Monica no longer exists. Even in 50 years an urban landscape can be unrecognizable. The dome city concept was conceived and prototyped by Buckminster Fuller in 1959. Fuller and Cage collaborated in the summer of 1948 at Black Mountain College. Interesting: The Finishing School: "John Cage and Merce [Cunningham] and I had breakfast every morning together out under the trees. And we really did have a very great deal of fun because I spent that summer with them on a fun schematic new school, and I called it “the finishing school.” We would finish anything. In other words, we would really break down all of the conventional ways of approaching school. And “the finishing school” was going to be a caravan, and we would travel from city to city." [More]
10/26/2002, Saturday
Went to peace rally in Federal Plaza at noon. Took lots of pics. Could be historical.
10/26/2005
Sox win World Series! (Write a fight song—or do songs just become them...)
Shirley Horn died. It’s interesting to hear her sing and speak—and it sounds identical. Her singing is a good example of the fuzzy boundary between speech and song.
10/26/2020
Patti Smith visiting the grave of Sylvia Plath, opening to Ariel to poppies in October, a gift, a love gift, utterly unasked for.
10/26/2024
To what degree are we mostly products of what our parents "installed" in us (nature), and our childhood experiences (what is "instilled") (nurture). It's something to think about mindfully as we navigate the world.
I had put out an album in 2005 titled Instillation, misspelled with an "i" instead of an "a". It's an interesting play on words that help us think about nature/nurture.
Things are instilled in us as well as installed in us from previous generations: DNA is installed and expresses certain behaviors. Various familial and generational patterns are instilled in us through watching other people's behaviors as a manifestation of epigenetics or the nurturing environment that is instilled, while the hard-wiring is installed.
This can also relate to the nature/nurture of a country. How long can we say "our democracy has survived" even though it has been assaulted by thousands of tiny cuts that have scarred over in such a way that it is unrecognizable? You can say it has survived 9/11 and the aftermaths, but has it really?
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