Music as a way to sketch ideas...(DOAMM#2)

Over the summer I was fitting our en-suite bathroom with all new stuff. This meant ripping out all the old stuff and completely refitting it with new stuff.

This meant I had a lot of time listening to new music which made me very happy.

I was going down a DIY musician rabbit hole and then I discovered all these slowcore playlists…

Slowcore, what is slowcore?

I didn’t realise slowcore is what it is because I would have just labelled it “sad indie” or “alternative”.

All these years have passed and I have loved a genre without knowing it had its own sub-genre. How exciting.

I immediately went to my studio (aka the messy front room) and started creating my take on slowcore.

The first album to come out was Memories on Loop by Faded Moments. Since then at least 4 more albums from other artists have followed. I’ll keep you posted.

Those Distant Lights is the name of an ambient artist I have held onto for years and I have finally found the project that fits the name.

I was inspired by the work of Other Nothing (which was actually on one of those slowcore playlists) and was taken about by the beauty of their work.

I used to study sound art and sound collages so listening to ambient music that feels like a sound collage or like someone’s audio diary is very exciting.

I want this with Those Distant Lights; to create these short ambient works that feel like sound collages.

This week’s podcast episode is basically focused on the idea of music being an audio sketchbook. This appeals to me very much.

When I started Art, other people’s sketchbooks were far more exciting than their finished pieces. The sketchbooks were like a window into their mind.

I guess I want this show to be like that too - a window into my creativity and thoughts about the music I am excited about.

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[basysdnb]

Just like to say Major 7th has always been my favourite chord. Especially when I played guitar more often. Strangley I'm using Shreddage etc for guitars for trailer music but I really should try and get the years of rust off and do some practice. Cool video

[philippendletonmusic]

It kinda reminds me of The Beta Band but slower?

[pauleastoncreative]

errrrm.. just a ghost moving your acoustic on the wall at 5:35. :')