Sounds - Images - Words

It takes quite a bit of concentration for me to work this process of defining myself as an artist that works in various media. Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between my picture making and my music making and at other times the two seem so very different that I think of myself as two very different people doing very different things. I think that is why in my earlier days I took on the term "Split Brain Syndrome" as a performance name. Maybe it still applies.

I have recently started collecting musical instruments again and started playing a lot more. I have all sorts of musical ideas and I even am thinking about rerecording some old music and doing some arrangements of Christmas songs to perform in churches come the holiday season. I really like the idea of playing in both churches and bars...what's the saying? Different strokes for different folks?

And then there is the writing. I love to write and some of what I've written is very good - some, not so good. Still, I love doing it and it is worth putting out there. Oddly enough, I find that it is the one thing that is always there for me, whether I'm spending time making sounds or making pictures. Perhaps it is true about language being the thing that ties it all together.

Soooo...it's time for new business cards. Gonna have to make a new design and advertise as an artist. I'll even put my new Mobile Phone Number on that sucker - And I NEVER thought I'd have one of those blasted things, but I suppose if I want to be contacted I need to make it easy.

sigh

Sound

Although I love music, I may have to admit that it is actually sound that has my attention. I love sound. I love making sound - sound that is organized, sound that isn't organized. Layers of sound: refined and planned, raw and random. Sound that comforts. Sound that threatens.

I got the guitar and I got the effects bay and now I want to get a looping station and the guitar synthesizer unit. I know that this represents a lot of money, but I find that I want the tools to realize some of the things that happen in my head - and I want to subject the world outside of my head to that which goes on within.

And the sound - does the sound have the ablility to transform me? Will producing these noises, these vibrations, these patterns - will they change how I see myself and/or how others see me? Can what one hears alter what one sees? Is this societal synesthesia?

I see what you're saying.

I hear where you're coming from.