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So, I’m making music again
Last year, I decided to focus completely on my painting. It was a very deliberate decision which I believe paid off quite well as the processes and practice became very strong. This year, in order to allow more ideas to flow through my cranium, I have decided to do some more music composition. So, the past couple of nights I have been working on this track I call “Heaven”. The process was originally intended to create a clubhit type song but, of course my ideas were a bit more complicated then that, so I had to chop and edit and mix and move bits about so that the sounds came out as a nice little composition. I have no misconceptions, it is not going to go to the popular music charts but it was fun to make and I like to share these things with the world so here it is. Enjoy!
Graverobber
This is another track that I threw together using the lyrics provided by my mate delboy.
As always, enjoy!
[podcast]http://nacreo.us/Nacreous/Media/Graverobber.mp3[/podcast]
Water, it’s about life.
[podcast]http://nacreo.us/Nacreous/Media/Cry%20for%20Life.mp3[/podcast]Today, I was sent an email by the Facebook App Causes, actually it was a request. The request was wrapped around a birthday greeting and was specifically set up to leverage the social network’s big happening. If you have a Facebook account and have had a birthday you know what I am talking about, the notification blow up as all your friends are reminded to wish you happy birthday.
The request from Causes asks that you make a wish for your friends to donate to the Cause of your choice on your birthday. mine is charity: water.
As three fifths of our planet is water, as 61.8% of our body weight is water, as water is essential for life as we know it; it is a great shame that millions of people go without clean water. Dirty water, which they have to walk hours and hours to fetch and bring home, carries numerous diseases that can and are fatal. Think of what life would be like growing up without clean water to drink. Think of how much clean water we are able use for our kids nightly baths.
It is these thoughts that have inspired me to name charity:water as the recipient of my birthday gifts.
You Are My One and Lonely
[podcast]http://nacreo.us/Nacreous/Media/You%20Are%20My%20One%20and%20Lonely.mp3[/podcast]I absolutely adore the lyrical musings of the brother of my friend, and I fancy that he too is my friend. Every once in a while, the words speak to me on a deeper level and they practically beg me to set them to my musical tonalities. With lyrics such as these and my morning mood in just the right place, it comes out very very easily. So without further adieu, I present to you, the hijack collaboration originally titled “You Are My One and Lonely” lyrics by Derek Wilson, music by Nathan Eckenrode.
Its not that I don’t get it…
[podcast]http://nacreo.us/Nacreous/Media/Breathe.mp3[/podcast]
There was a great gaggle of noisy coming out of my entourage this weekend, specifically about the collective need for them to visit the MOMA and see the Marina Abramovic installation The Artist is Present. I warned them that there is to be no fondling the performers, and absolutely no mimicking her. So we went.
I turned on my super-artist sensitivity and absorbed the entire installation; at times I was not even looking at one thing in particular, rather just feeling the emotions which were inspired by the cacophonous environment of competing multimedia pieces occupying vast amounts of gallery space. The pacing and deliberation of all the works, such as the metronome in the Installation for a Artist to Live in, the rhythm of quiet-quiet-explosviely loud in the folk dance and the works with Ulay in which simple movements and standing were mixed together all screamed for seriousness. It is in the shrugging off of any aesthetic which has a scrap of entertainment and forces one to completely dive into the mental, cerebral and conceptual aspects of “serious art”.
Serious Art is something that I think is created by small French children chain smoking Gauloises and questioning the existential meaning of the monkey bars.
What happened to me while I was experiencing all this morbid fascination with the mundane; I got depressed.
I got depressed because I get depressed easily. I got depressed because I recollected experiences from earlier in this decade when I existed in circles of people who did this sort of performance art regularly. I got depressed because one of those people was an X, who idolized/hero worshipped or at least took great inspiration from Marina Abramovic. I got depressed because the works were good enough to touch that depression button, tearing down any bit of my mind that thought that life was worth living and blanking out any affirming messages that might prohibit my depression from spreading further. Rather than continue to subject myself to the perceived nihilistic onslaught, I went to get something to eat.
When my entourage caught up with me, all were excited about discussing this installation. If any of you out there have seen the retrospective of this work, I’d love to have your opinions added to the fray. Please leave a comment below.
First Quarter
This is what happens when I throw some free beats together with an audio article from The Economist. I’m actually laughing about this all over the place, maybe because I don’t go to dance clubs any more and it is not actually part of my profession to pay strict attention to stuffy English Bankers have to say, anyways it does so tickle me in many ways.
Enjoy![podcast]http://nacreo.us/Nacreous/Media/First%20Quarter.mp3[/podcast]
