Welcome to a different layout - I kind of got sick of the visually arresting nature of the old one (ie. it was so obnoxiously ugly) so I'm going for a layout that's a little easier on the eye.
So I don't really have any special insights or interesting things to tell you about today (not that anything I ever have to say is especially insightful or interesting). I have been wondering whether or not I'm crazy again, after I recorded some conversations with my friends last night without them knowing and then putting the recordings to music as soon as I got home. I like going to the VCA though because things that seem like crazy things to do in normal life are normal life here.
I've been recording my friends and family without them knowing and turning the recordings into songs (I do tell them afterwards) for a little over a year now, and it's a very spiritual thing for me to do. I like to take snippets of everyday conversation from these years, when I'm supposed to be the most exciting, beautiful, young thing I will ever be, and turn it into a kind of visual scrapbook - a moment in time caught somewhere between the visual and atmospheric. Of course I keep my photos, diaries, sketchbooks - this is just another version of that and while it's probably the most time consuming I would say it's also the most satisfying. Each individual piece has a specific meaning that I always want to share with others because they are so dear to me. They are a shrine to the ordinary. I am obsessed with normality and the beauty in routine is often overlooked and I've recently realised that by recording these almost mundane situations I am trying to hold onto something that makes me feel safe - and safety is something we forget that we are constantly working towards. Isn't feeling safe one of the best feelings in the world? It's like a comfort foundation for everything else - you can be happy, sad, angry, whatever, but if you feel safe underneath all these other feelings it's as though this huge box is ticked...or something?
I've hurt my ankle and I haven't been able to run for a couple of days and it's driving me a bit insane and I think that might be why I've been thinking about all of this stuff in such a huge way, while I've been trying to work really hard and not waste my time watching Seinfeld.
If you're interested in what I've been calling sound art you can listen to one of my pieces from last year here.
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