Music can be a powerful force when used correctly.
Full of the joys of summer and the sounds of diplo I made my mixtape comeback with the latest instalment of Tayalarz, and the news of Dr Dre finally delivering on his long-awaited promise of a new album that fans have been waiting more than a decade for had prompted me to make a start on a 'Compton' influenced mix.
And even tho that creation may be in the extremely early stages and may eventually be lost to gestation, with the computer fired up and the hours growing small I chose to revisit a few neglected folders on the harddrive.
Lo and behold did Saturday morning creep up on me and shake me from my bed with a new desire.
In this age of stealth albums nobody was expecting the penultimate SoundArt to grace the world with its presence. Very few people were even wanting it. But regardless.
The SoundArt project was a simple idea.
Instead of giving my brother my music and asking him to produce artwork influenced by the sounds he heard we would flip the script, he would provide artwork and I would be influenced. 12 images and 12 tracks produced over 12 months to create a full length experimental album within a year.
Track 1 debuted in December 2008....
(ahem)
SoundArt11 is a curious creature. Staring at the stars and asking the ultimate questions as the artwork seriously suggests that we are not alone.
Other tracks have been much more of a sound collage, this perhaps could have been but now sounds more of a sound presentation... Taking it's musical cue and liberally borrowing Doorly's dubstep remix of Calvin Harris' 'Not Alone' as theories jacked from YouTube play out over it.
Previous instalments have heaved with creativity, either pulling things apart or putting them together, SoundArt11 was always intended to play out that way too, but the whole ethos of this expression of art was to let it find it's own way...
Only this morning was the majority of this track spun on its head to give it a more complete feel, choosing to play with a larger chunk of the original remix than originally intended and then swinging by the buena vista social club to provide a backdrop to a healthy discussion on the intelligence of our species that had been longing for a dancing partner for a long time. The last piece of the puzzle fell from the sky, hailing from a planet that no longer exists. I rented Man Of Steel two years ago in order to reuse a message that seems to resonate throughout this track, and also through the entire project.
