JAMES VAN ROOSMALEN

Musician, Writer, and General Artist Website: [coming soon] Spotify: [coming soon] @sgkrausen

[jamesvanroosmalen]

Welcome to my blog. I'm a creative who much prefers to make their art than play the industry game, but it's the way of things that I have to play that game anyway. Here I'll be sharing things related to my work in multiple arts predominantly. As a result, it will be sporadic or bombarding of content at various points in time. I'm unfamiliar with blogging in general. I'm not personally much interested in platforming myself in this way outside of my artistic intentions so forgive me if my way of navigating this environment is lacking to an ordinary standard that you may find more comfortable. I'll just try to be myself and hopefully over time I'll get more comfortable with the idea of blogging. Until then if I come across as awkward about it, it's because I feel awkward about it.

[jamesvanroosmalen]

I don't tend to publicise my efforts much. It isn't that I think there is something wrong with doing so. It's more that I often feel uncompelled to share what I've done unless it's finished.

As an artist, my philosophy on creation and expression is beholden to a firm da vincian mindset. I want what I do to be of its cause such that its effect is entirely my design. I believe in the science of art, and the art of science. And I struggle immensely to unify that philosophy with an industry geared towards capitalistic intentions rather than what feels authentic and genuinely artistic. In this space, the promotional mindset is alien to me. There is a sort of modernistic grandiosity that one oftentimes must exhibit in some sense. A showmanship akin to the social acumen of a car salesperson. Sometimes, however stars align and my desire to share something might lead me to pushing past that bizarre barrier.

This is certainly one of such moments.

I recently did my first ever interview on a local radio show. I was a bit nervous but I'm pretty happy with how it all went. I absolutely loved being there. They were extremely welcoming and definitely made a strange experience very homely and enjoyable.

If you're interested in hearing some of my music from my upcoming live album, you'll be able to hear it at the moment exclusively from here until its official release.

For many years now, in the background, I've been hard at work on my various artistic endeavours and they are slowly shaping up nicely.

My upcoming live album, the first music I'll have ever released to the public outside of a stage, has been waiting in the wings for everything else to be ready to go.

My website is slowly approaching its ready-state for when I have an album launch event lined up.

The many arms of my 10+ year long world-building journey are slowly colliding with a first draft for a first novel (of many to come) including a first language of roughly 1000+ words constructed in two years alongside a sea of other components that are likewise coming together nicely.

It's hard to work so much towards something and feel entirely and wholly unfulfilled more often than not from it, in service of some far-off goal. But slowly my vision of long ago is shaping into something more tangible and immediately satisfying.

I look forward to the fires in me that only progress can ignite.