All my life I've been driven to create. I'm a published author, have sold my outsider art at fairs & festivals, created mixed-media sculpture, done readings and performance art, acted, run my own theatre company, even programmed five internet radio stations. My one regret, creatively, was that I couldn't make music. In 2020 I vowed to change that. I bought a used synthesizer, enrolled in a course in music theory, and set up a home recording studio. I've created an even dozen audio pieces so far and am having a blast. My problem is I have no idea how to categorize this music! Listeners have called it "Atomic Age Ambient," "avant-garde electronic" and "neo-early electronic." Check it out and let me know what you think!
Music is magic to me. Since I was a wee lad music has spoken to me on a very deep level. And I have always delighted in music that is somehow off the wall, weird, bizarre, unusual, experimental or obscure.
I just want people to listen to my weird music, to be open to things that they have never heard before.
People would be honest. That's all it takes.
There was this one yellow vinyl 45 I had by the Three Stooges, all about them recording a song in a studio and getting stuck on the record. It was such a weird bit it warped me forever.
I have a wide variety of favorite artists but some are: Frank Zappa Spike Jones Paul Kantner Jean-Jacques Perrey Donovan Melanie Chrysalis Tingling Mother's Circus and so, so many more
Same thing that inspires me to write: a desire to communicate. I have stories to tell...
Be open to new experiences.
Alive.
People could value the art they consume to a greater degree. Everyone wants the art, but nobody wants to support it financially.
That's a good question.
Anything I can't figure out how to do on my own.!
I go and see local music as often as possible.
The ability to persevere, never give up, and willingness to work 24/7.
The Slow Poisoner Shari Elf