November 12ths (1997-2023)

11/12/2016

J.G. Ballard's line from the novel High-Rise came to mind as being in the "gap": "Looking up at the endless tiers of balconies, he felt uneasily like a visitor to a malevolent zoo where terraces of vertically mounted cages contained creatures of random and ferocious cruelty."  

 

 

11/12/2022

 

 

 

 

 

11/12/2023

My diaries started in the early 90s when I was tracking symptoms of a chronic medical issue then were used as a list for all kinds of things, song titles, lyric ideas, aphorisms. I also used what I called my "nerd card", a folded index card that I kept in my top pocket as a mini diary. Now there are electronic diaries, audio diaries, video diaries, and social media posts which I integrate into a series of monthly diaries that have a musical component: a song per month sometimes derived from diary entries. The next album may be songs for specific dates, but it would be networked on social media as a collective effort with other musicians and put into playlists with various hashtags. My vision is to have a "federation" of diaries such that we can cross-pollinate them and discover intersecting points and synchronicities.

The Songdays so far: