Obscurity

First post of 2014!  Huzzah!  It's only... April.  Shit.  Not too much has been happening for me, musically, as school and what-not has kind of gotten in the way.  Life.  Don't you hate that?  Anyhoo...  I have been getting the itch.  That itch that I can't scratch except by making the music happen.  As school draws to a close, and I begin looking for a job, hopefully I will have more time to put to this whole thing.  It is looking pretty good, quite frankly.  If I can get a decent job, I might even have a little money to put into it for some new equipment, from time to time.  That is the dream, isn't it?  It is for me.  Writing and playing and recording and just getting creative and seeing what happens.  Self-expression is an amazing thing!  I hope to go in a lot of different directions and see what happens.  I don't want to be pinned down as this or that particularly, not that anyone is really paying attention.  That is the thing about complete or almost-complete obscurity: it allows me the freedom to do what the hell I want.  That is conducive to experimentation and outside-the-box thinking, in particular.  My goal is to hide some diamonds among Internet trash and to see who might be sifting through the world wide dumpster, looking for treasure.  Hopefully this that is trash to many is treasure to someone.  It is to me, at any rate, and I guess that is all that matters, otherwise I wouldn't continue doing it.  I feel like the ultimate judge of something that is truly artistic is whether the artist is willing to continue doing it whether or not anyone else notices.  It is not about putting up a billboard and making a scene, it's about creativity and self-expression.  Thinking about putting together some Youtube videos of my music--although, I am a bit hesitant as well.  It might help me get my music out to more people, but, then again, there are a lot of dumb people on the internet, and I don't really need their trolling in my life.  I already subject myself to it enough.  Part of me thinks that I will be happier not trying to get more people listening, that this is not about that.  I don't know.  We'll see what happens.

Taking Cues from Radiohead and Pink Floyd

A friend shared this with me, and it is definitely worth checking out. It only increases my respect for Radiohead:

 http://puddlegum.net/radiohead-01-and-10/ .

I have been listening to this for the past hour or so and the two albums, OK Computer and In Rainbows (which happen to be my two favorite Radiohead albums, anyways), flow together flawlessly.  I can definitely see the argument that it was done intentionally. It's kind of like (although, not really) the whole Pink Floyd and Wizard of Oz thing, only there is proof that Radiohead did this intentionally --- above and beyond rumors.

The Pink Floyd thing is mere speculation, and the members of the band deny the correlation between the album and the movie, but, well, check it out for yourself: put Dark Side of the Moon on repeat and start it at the third lion's roar at the beginning of The Wizard of Oz.  The album will play through about two and a half times, and there are moments with each repetition where the music and the movie flow eerily well together.  And no, the first time I did this I was not stoned, so it is not necessary (although it does add to the effect).

I think it would be fun to combine the two ideas: record two albums that mesh together like Radiohead's OK Computer and In Rainbows and, at the same time, make the albums (meshed together) work as a cooler soundtrack to a movie (preferably one that is already popular or familiar).  I have some ideas for movies, but, well, that is something I am going to keep to myself  ;-)