I haven’t put out any solo work in 5 years.  Here’s a taste of what’s to come.

[I’ve (temporarily) given up academic music for something with…soul.]

1. When I’m nervous or about to start a task I literally vocalize the phrase, “Let’s see here.”  

I’m not sure how long I’ve been doing it.  It’s like one of those bad dreams where there’s a birthday party and you happen to be blowing out the candles, but then you realize that the only reason everyone’s staring at you is because you’re wearing absolutely nothing.  You have no idea how long you’ve been that way.  It’s not even your birthday.

2.  I like and hate everything, and even consider being lukewarm an ok/not ok place to be.

I’m absolutely horrific at making up my mind on most things nowadays.  The inconsistencies of abstract thought are somehow concurrently restricting and expanding my artistic tastes and preferences.  The idea that anything could be anything is fairly regular, which makes for a great sense outlining webs of allusions when referencing anything in culture, but more often than not I get my strings crossed.

imaginarydances:

“Even at the best of times, the rela­tion­ship between acad­e­mia and the cre­ative arts (com­pos­ing, film­mak­ing, lit­er­a­ture, chore­og­ra­phy, visual arts, etc.) has been prob­lem­atic. Today, it’s even more so—many schools have an overt inter­est in pro­duc­ing unsuc­cess­ful artists.”

Part I

Part II

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imaginarydances:

Jackson Pollock’s methods for painting were a type of pure Dionysian art, where his process was to passionately throw colours onto a canvas. The result, often was something that looked quite complex but was made rather simply. It’s interesting to compare this to the modernist music of say,…