It’s not even 8am and I’m awake and beyond alive.
I’ve been thinking about music (well arts and entertainment as a whole but I’ll use music to highlight my point) a lot recently, mainly because I’ve come to a stand still as far as listening to new sounds are concerned. I’m at a cross roads not knowing which direction I should turn.
The problem is the market is over saturated. There’s too much of everything… we no longer have to wait for a tide of music to carry us as we are drowning in it... all of it.
It’s becoming claustrophobic and I can no longer hear over the wall of sound that's screaming all over the Internet. Can you hear it?
But how do you siphon through the mess to find the good stuff?
We’ve become a society who waits or wants for nothing, who walks around with iPods filled with thousands of songs that we are never going to hear. And I ask what is the point of that? Many times people will tell me that they have just free downloaded the latest album by an artist and I’ll ask the question ‘Why?’
Why would you download/steal music you don’t even like?
And the answer is always the same “ Because I can.”
Sad but true.
The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.
So this is the world we live in and instead of opening fresh ears, I find myself switching off and picking up old CDs of familiar faces and letting them speak to me. But this is not what I want. Sometimes you need to be inspired by something new and I want to hear something new.
INSPIRATION CREATES INSPIRATION
I want to be moved into creating movement.
So where is this going? Nowhere really… except hopefully someone will read this and point me in the right direction soon as I’m tired of standing here in silence.
Bring me noise so I can create chaos within my world.
Speaking of my world…
Someone wrote this in regards to my ongoing project The Death Chair Confessions:
An interesting concept. Not sure how it will work as a fully realized
piece...but we're gonna stick with it and see. We wonder if the artist
will get the kind of 'honest' responses she is looking for or if the
entire exercise will come off as 'staged'.
If I were to answer that honestly then I would have to say I have no idea where the Death Chair Confessions is going… where it will end.
If it will be a success or a failure.
It’s one of the hardest projects I’ve ever done and that is due to the external elements involved i.e. the subjects themselves. I cannot control what they do and say.
It would be a lie to say that every single person has been 100% real with me, because I know they haven’t… they may lie as they look at me BUT the camera is looking at them and that sure as hell does not. It sees all and captures it forever.
Often as an artist, you start a project knowing where it will end…whether you have an exhibition, a CD, DVD, theatre release in mind but this is what’s different about the Death Chair Confessions. It’s path is unclear and I have no idea what lies ahead.
Note to self: Since people have a lot of questions about this project, I think I'll go through all the emails/messages that I've received and answer the most common/interesting ones here in a blog.
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