#edge seeking behavior

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music in monochrome

Today it seems like playing percussion is the artistic equivalent of working in black and white. Everything is texture, contrast, framing, pace, scale, focus, subject, arrangement, pattern. When i create i tend to ignore chord structure, and i tend to ignore color. I leave them up to you

Yet when i take in the world those are the elements i am most attentive to. My ears consistently notice the pitch of windblown leaf-hiss and when burbles in water find their way to a diminishied third. My eyes are always drinking in the subtle greens which ooze out of a sunset somewhere in the transition from ruddy peach to velvet grape, without a cloud to intersect or dry this blending expression of sky.

Perhaps it is on purpose. This distinction may be the way in which i maintain separation between voice and observation as i muddle through creation. Yet i wonder on occasion what the world might sound like if i drew in harmony, what would be visible if i spoke in color.

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Identity. Maybe you've heard of it? You should know that i intend to break it, and that i would appreciate your help in reassembling the pieces.

Part of what i do is push past the limits. i am edge seeking behavior. The moment you get comfortable with a new reality i can be found scratching at the walls and pointing out the windows to someplace new. I am not meaning to invalidate the space you have, or the way you think. I don't think that i know any better, or that i've found someplace more beautiful that yours. I've never been to where i am reaching for, I've never experienced what I am trying to get you to see. This is merely what i do. I find a route to beyond, and i give you the clearest invitation i can, the option to explore further is always yours to choose.

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meta personalities in order - hermitage status update

I do this thing where i become a group of stuff that interacts and influences itself. And i watch it all churn for awhile before making a motion, in the way that one would make a motion at a meeting. From there  then i play out the meeting process in different roles. Sometimes as the instigator with a proposal to pass, sometimes as a gadfly who challenges the structure of the meeting, and sometimes as a facilitator who corals a space in which things tend to work out. This morning i took the role of guest speaker who entertains and explains.

During the process i also sat with a keyboard and laid down text. So as the week progresses i will be editing that into a form with some coherence. At this point i think it is sufficient to share the influences that were playing audio and video on my other screen:

Alan Watts

Reggie Watts

Richard Feynman

Funkadelic

Daft Punk

Points to anyone who can provide an artist to close that trend into a loop. But for now my sharing is that there is something common to all of these artisti which is manifesting in my mind, and i feel compelled to attempt to translate it into my own art. You will know when i revisit this subject by the title: Edge Seeking Behavior