Art needs to congeal

Like the flow of blood to arteries
Like oil fresh on a painting
Like ink on paper
It is not until the lifeline of an artistic endeavor
is completely cutoff that it congeals and
begins to take its true shape

Art needs to Congeal

Painting from the MOMA SF

Let the experiment begin

Well in this crazy day and age of internet business, music and marketing, I am trying to get a hold on how the heck to go about all this stuff and sometimes it is easy to forget just why and what I am doing it all for?  And when I remind myself that it is simply to be able to make music, be creative and to share with people,  it makes everything so much easier.

So rather than sitting around and constantly perfecting the master plan, I think I will just be my own lab monkey and just try out all of my questions.  That being said I created a new music profile at Reverb Nation and uploaded a near completed track called “Peer Funk”.  One other thing, the Sax in the track is courtesy of Peter Gavin of Moped.  Comments are appreciated.

This track can now be heard on the music page

Could I give an album away if I tried?

I have had an album idea near completion since about the end of last Summer (08). Besides a few minor tweaks here and there, I can’t seem to get over a few semi-finished portions of work (aka. mental blocks), which leaves a bunch of hard-work and unheard music sitting on my computer.  I constantly hope that I will finish it before I get totally sick of it and/or lose total interest in it.

Here is a list of my semi-finished portions of work (mental blocks):
Mixing
Mastering
Album Artwork
Trying to Market it and sell it.

This sounds like a lot of unfinished business, but the truth is that my strength and my creative process is in making the music. The other stuff I find it to be much more arduous and now have completely realized is stopping me from moving forward.

Even if I do go through all the motions to perfect every step of the process, how much would that really affect people downloading/listening to the music.
So say I decide to take the route of giving a digital album away, would I be selling myself short on what I am capable of or would I be moving past a road block that I created? and more curiously…

Could I give an album away if I tried?

your thoughts…?

Photo 195

Patterns

Patterns- Everywhere
are they connected
do they have meaning
they are in the tiniest cracks
and in the vastness of the universe

I was walking around the city today looking for something bigger, far away, planning the next big adventure. I then started to take photographs of anything that struck my eye. It wasn’t until the end of the walk and after I started looking back at the photos that I realized that patterns, beauty and symmetry exist everywhere and that I had been walking past this simplicity for a long time now.