December 30ths (Tomorrow Never Knows)

12/30/1897 (Paris)

(Harry Kessler Diary)

Purchased Seurat’s “The Models at Vollard’s” for 1,200 francs!!!! One of the masterworks of the French school!

(This is the image that Kessler bought. It’s interesting that it is cropped and enlarged, as well rotated horizontally):

   
[69 years later there is a musical group playing guitars that you plug in. They are able to trace their performances as one would paint on a canvas–but with sound. 69 years in the future in 2093 there will be young artists making some form of art that is now unimaginable. When one of the musicians turns 64 in the 2140s there will be other technologies akin to sampling in 2000 that was inconceivable 50 years prior].

12/30/1966

Mono mixing: “ When I’m Sixty Four” tape copying, “ Strawberry Fields Forever”, Recording “ Penny Lane” (tape reduction take 6 into take 7, mono mixing, “Penny Lane” remixes 1 and 2 from take 7.   

12/30/1997

Interesting: It took Picasso six years to do “Demoiselles”, after many sketches and re-workings. Braque was Picasso’s only collaboration, then we saw the world entirely differently. It was sort of like the Beatles where the world of music was changed forever after a relatively short period of creativity (The Beatles 1963-1969, Picasso/Braque, 1905-1911).

[12/30/2024: A diary entry made 100 years after Kessler’s which relates to the rapid pace of change making things seem inconceivable historically]. 

12/30/1999

In the final two days of the 20th century, a stark contrast to the heady 1966...George Harrison stabbed in robbery attempt in the middle of the night in his home outside London.

12/30/2022

Bill Bruford: “The author Henry Miller suggested once that we all leave a scar upon the face of the world. Some of us try to atone for it through right work before we leave. [This is] evidence of one musician’s micro efforts to repair through music the scar he’s made.” (All our lives are “meander scars”). https://www.perplexity.ai/search/did-the-author-henry-miller-su-lhL3Oj_MQyyt10W2gOMmKA#0