35 validation through negation.

negativespace

avoid defining yourself as the negative of what you are against. negative and positive space are the same image. re-define yourself. make new words. this is why i dislike the words experimental, independent, alternative (which is rarely used anymore) noise, even punk.
i like avant-garde because it is literally a forward moving word, but all its power seems lost. language changes, this is it’s nature. language is a tool it is not a rule of physics. i think the best you can do is avoid definition. once you find yourself defined it is time to move on. this is when art dies, the moment it recognizes itself in
a word.
resist the power of language. resist definition!

29 make me free - shiverland

shiverland

deciding to release shiverland as a free download felt kind of like nursing a sick bird back to health for two years, and then opening the window. but the music should be free. asking you to pay for it is really me being afraid to let go. a way to keep track of it. to know where it is and where it’s been.
in order for these things to grow they need to be set free into the public mind. it really is scary, imagining the work mutated and misinterpreted. or unloved and ignored. or even to see it do well, loved and known and understood. see i’ve always imagined fame is like a shadow that you don’t really control. a copy of you living in the minds of countless people. you are not known, your fame shadow is known. celebrities die, their shadow selves live on forever in all those heads, the ghost burns brighter the more copies there are of it. this applies to art, the same way it applies to people. it must be frightening to see a work of art you created live on without you like this. like the mona lisa, the real painting and the countless copies. if the original is lost, the copies gain MORE power. eek scary.
but here it is for you. consume it copy it distribute it. just give me credit, and don’t try to make money with it or my lawyers will find you.

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