dear you,
thank you so much for letting me hear your music. if only you could have seen the smile on my face as i listened...
particularly in the solo songs, YOU really came through and it was awesome. having been on a steady diet of electronic music for a long time, i'd almost forgotten how much spirit gets conveyed through human music - voice + guitar, which is so beautiful.
and again, not to just flatter you, but you are really fucking talented! i am reminded of our pact for subsidy of each other's creative goals as soon as one of us gets the means. it will happen for you. i have no doubts.
specifically, the song you've recorded with the band is great - really groovy and dynamic and i dig what you are doing on the solo, too. your bass player is pretty kick-ass. i hope you keep him around...
i was also rather entertained by the "fucking around" parts. someone (you?) sure has a mean burp... hehe
well, listening to your stuff tonight inspired a few ideas/thoughts in me about music:
~a band creates music as though it were a form amongst them... hanging pensively in the air to be molded and sculpted by the players... living; shimmering... i visualize it in their midst like a shapeshifting projected image. this could possibly tie into some of your ideas about functionally connecting light and sound... if one could somehow see this represented... as basic as showing a laser-type formation and having the sound alter it as it's being produced. not like having a particular note correspond with a particular picture/color. more actually having certain tonal qualities and even moods of sound affect the light form in different ways so as to show the continuous growing, changing creation of music, visually.
~taking in the patterns of basslines and guitar melodies... i love the logic of music. music just makes so much sense.
~composing music really is like building a story. like different sounds, you become the characters as you develop them. as sounds harmonize, characters interrelate. as songs transition, plots turn. both music and stories communicate emotions, concepts...
and YOU happen to be damn amazing at making both.
more, later...
~me