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All the Music

Recently Katy Perry was sued by the Christian rapper Flame about, of all things, a synthesizer riff in the song Dark Horse (2014). The accusation was that that synth riff was stolen from the song Joyful Noise (2008). While there were several irregularities in the proceedings, Katy Perry was found to be guilty of thisContinue reading “All the Music”

Death, when it comes, will have no sheep

Back in 2017, Dr Janelle Shane trained a neural network named char-rnn using a list of 2000 proverbs. When it began creating new proverbs, it apparently it had developed an obsession with four legged mammals, like sheep. The link to the article/interview is here: So I decided to create a track with the above proverbContinue reading “Death, when it comes, will have no sheep”

68 Years

I never thought I would be this age. You just don’t consider it when you are younger. So many things take up your time and thought processes that years pass without you realizing that the time has passed. At this point, I have now lived 10 years longer than my father, who passed away atContinue reading “68 Years”

The Kolpherani

I hadn’t realized how long it was since I last release a musical piece. Turns out it was two years ago, as Soundcloud listed it. So, just yesterday, I release my first new song/musical piece in two years. It is called ‘The Kolpherani’ and, as you might have guessed, it has to do with theContinue reading “The Kolpherani”

The Pneumonia Vaccine

If there has been more of a time interval between my posts over the last two weeks, it is because I said ‘yes’ to the Pneumonia Vaccine. Once you reach 65 (I think they may have lowered the age recently), your doctor will suggest you have the pneumonia vaccine. In my case, it was administeredContinue reading “The Pneumonia Vaccine”