https://silkfingers.bandcamp.com/album/its-alright-now

This week I had a lot of trouble focusing on Uni work while this was gnawing at the back of my mind, so I got it out of the way the past week. It’s 3 rehearsals for sets that never happened during the summer that I was proud enough of to make into something else, more ridiculous sparkly puke that I’ve been stacking on for a couple of months, so I’m happy to throw it out into the void.

I have been kind of focused on the research project at the moment, since the deadlines for that are way sooner, and I’ve started a job recently where my time is not really respected and my requested hours have been ignored, so I am trying to ration my time as well as I can until I figure out another job or how to work around what I’m made to do. Because of the time away from the computer, though, the main idea in my head is to expand on the Fox Box from over the summer, since I found the format of just making these really long stretches of Ambient music at the end of the day for a few weeks to be greatly therapeutic on top of resulting in some of the best material I’ve ever done, greatly benefiting from the maintenance of a schedule and creating music about my life for self satisfaction and without pretense.

Ambient music would probably be the best genre to continue to work within since I have a great deal of affection for Ambient box sets as a format (particularly Celer’s, Memory Repetitions and You and I Will Never Change), and I feel like for a more “professionally minded” portfolio that the hyper cleanliness of the “playlist” ambient styles popular on streaming (Hakobune, Celer, new works of Masakatsu Takagi, etc) that I am a fan of, kind of tying this work also into my research project’s idea of Harsh Noise Wall being this “uber-music” where the monotony translates to extreme purification and taps into basic primal appeasement, I think of this style of loop driven, cushy, friendly Ambient Music to be another but definitely more approachable iteration of the same idea. Also, the Fox Box has been stuck in purgatory for the time being due to the label owner losing their job and having an accident recently (they are recovering quite well thankfully), meaning the copies are getting to people extremely slowly, so learning the means of creating and distributing the product myself would be a great learning experience I feel like, especially seeing how much interest there was in that project I know there would be a base support for another if I was to go about making it.

As for the second project, the idea I have is directly related to the Silk Fingers release mentioned prior, I have only ever played live solo once, and it was under this name. It was a fantastic experience, even though it was for a handful of people; it left enough of an impression to have me billed on a date with Pain Chain, a touring Canadian Harsh Noise artist, which had to sadly get cancelled. But from planning for the gig, I wanted to try to cover a lot of bases of things I have loved experiencing in Live music while in London, taking the “hyper-psychedelic” sound of this project further with a makeshift maximal multichannel setup and utilisation of communal experience, I want the opportunity to do a realised iteration of this again, Live music and Noise are two of my main passions and I want to be able to create something that gets across my passion, relating the work to the issues I have with Multichannel from 2nd Year, the format’s benefits, and the hope of achieving the format’s ideal sensation through a makeshift, clumsy means.