November Studio

The Green Pill group that meets on Monday mornings had some music site suggestions. I checked out a few. They are mostly into streaming and co-ownership of music. The types of music are very different than what I prefer. Having the focus on piano venues is important for me and the community I would like to foster. It lends itself to quieter ballads or when out of ideas: 'the blues'.

I like the co-ownership concept. I understand from the Green Pill conversation that the concept that I found attractive with the Web3 book I read two years ago is how royalties for subsequent sales of an NFT can be received by the original creator on subsequent resales. However I understand, from the conversation, that investors didn't really like this concept. So I'm not sure what makes sense with the blog and the Global Piano Network with regard to this concept.

As Kaz, my technical mentor pointed out, people don't really have NFTs of songs, they can listen to it on YouTube. It's not like a painting or some icon that people own on NFTs. Is that true? I am not sure. Roger on the Green Pill call seems to know a whole lot about blockchain and music. He says musicians get a song idea and log it on voice mail to establish date/time and ownership. Maybe I won't get into how my app and IPFS can be a way of establishing this and players of a live recording. But maybe it is a valid future plan. So I have it in the backlog.

I feel like Jerry Lewis with Dean Martin. I'd rather be the Jerry in Cinderfella that comes out very cool and respectable towards the end of the movie.

It is almost December. I could publish at the end of every month. With pictures and videos. Mal is getting more knowledgable about how to advertise, hopefully for free, on social media. She and I are working in similar directions, I guess...

I started reading Synchronicity by CG Jung again. I liked it when I was into Synch and ASynch about 5 years ago. I noticed some interesting phenomena back then. Mundane happenings that I liked to interpret from a synchronistic point of view.

Here's a true story about how a blues jam provided a nice resolution to the basement jam that left raw feelings all around.

Back in the mid-nineties, a guy from a men's group that I was attending came over to my place with his guitar. He was to play while I accompanied him on piano on my Heinzman in the basement. I had the proverbial dark cloud over my head and the energy in the room was grim. He noticed and commented on the ambiance, packed up his guitar without playing note, and left.

I often came to a Sunday blues jam at Grossmans in Toronto. Years after the basement jam the guitarist showed up. At first I did not recognize him but he remembered me. The leader wanted us to play together. He said, "but we have never played together before". She persisted. He started a song on guitar, probably original, and I joined in. It was very nice.

We are putting Dec 13/25 in pencil on our Calendar for the jam session at Tranzac. I have it on the piano blog already. The date needs to be updated.