First Demo Album Title: War of Mind - Preparation (and where it all began)

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As the title describes. 

This journal will contain all of my preparatory and explorative notes for this demo album titled "War of Mind" which will be released on March 1st.

Firstly though, let me introduce my earliest recording of me trying to do an improvisation (certainly the first recording/improvisation within a 12 month period --- notice how I'm struggling to produce improvised lyrics in the song which I have an easier time at doing these days and will just get better and better at), this earliest recording just so happens to intersect with the earliest beginnings of the phrase "War of Mind" (this is the first time I ever said those words). Go easy on the recording, obviously (earliest beginnings after-all). 

It's also representative of early days of me singing and learning guitar (at least a few months off singing, etc), which I left for some months not long thereafter but have since rebegun my journey there, so I'll be using this and other journals to track progress from my beginning to increasingly more advanced stages.

I will be building the whole album around this song, which includes finishing it completely of course. So naturally this song has a lot of sentimental value for me.

Think of this song, which will likely be the beginning of the album, the inception point for all other songs and ideas I'll produce from there.

This recording is at least 12 months old, I don't know the exact date.

 

 

Title: Blue Courage

 

 

Edited February 4, 2021 by Origins

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"Think of this song, which will likely be the beginning of the album, the inception point for all other songs and ideas I'll produce from there."

I look at this song as representing the grammar of the album, and I'm more or less building the rest of the language from scratch based on it. It's about creating an entirely new world and/or old worlds re-represented in spirit. That's what you have to do in both lyrics, music and voice. Every song is a string in a web, representing the first stable emotional and meaning structure of a new species on planet earth within the laws of physics.

Edited February 4, 2021 by Origins

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One thing I've learned by observing the above early improvisation and my recent improvisation actually titled War of Mind (just fooling around) is when you're constructing an album you've gotta be so, so careful about how the emotions of one song which are very much like the colours used in a painting blend in with the rest of the colours used in other songs. A dash of black here but not too much over there, a dash of red here but not too much over there, white, purple, blue, orange and yellow here, but don't put any yellow or green here. I won't list that improv but you can find it here (https://www.actualized.org/forum/topic/60321-singing-analysis-journal-ie-clips-compared-side-by-side/#comment-830229) if you really want, you'll notice how its much, much darker than the improv listed at the beginning of this journal, too dark, like representative almost of the enemy that would be in any hypothetical narrative that could be painted with the above improv (listed in this journal), kind of like the orcs in Lord of the Rings.

So I wouldn't at all use the colours of that improv in with this album, as its a nuance that brings too much contrast away from the focus of what can be experienced in this improv, which is more pure, a lot of elements of truth that I want explored in the overall album which can easily be missed by adding too much black and red together for example.

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In light of just the above...

I guess I have to pose the question... Have I become a little bit more of a villain since the beginnings of war of mind? Thus recognition of this contrast is sending me back to my roots a little more.

It makes me realise that there's probably a lot of truth to the body having an "emotional body", analogous to or exacting in description of the souls energetic pulse more or less. 

Where am I taking my soul with every sound that I make? What does every sound I make tell about the truth of my soul and where its heading?

There's colouration, which is explorative and imaginative, there's discolouration, which can be that too but also expressive and indicative, and finally there is just pure expression of what is, how aligned with the truth of being is the expression of the sound? And to the former, for artistic purposes we do sometimes need to ask, in order to tell a story with energetic juxtaposition, prose and prosody, where do we need to bend the soul or seek deeper, even newer depths within the soul for all a combination of songs to be represented of a full gestalt, ideally, of a soul, in like, so character, or in true form, so being.

This relationship between sound, energy, truth, soul and being is a fascinating one.

Edited February 5, 2021 by Origins

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A pigment of the artistic figment to wash over the imagination for future redesigns of understanding how various energies mix in with conscious artistic choice:

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Singing/Music tip (seriously put on your fucking seatbelt and get ready to skyrocket to hallelujah jukebox made from candy land merry Poppins "she's a whore in this imaginary world" she chants and chants and chants with only her knickers on)

Focus on your timing and your singing will improve by at least a solid 25%. Seriously. Get out a metronome now, start with one then build up to 4 as I am. This is simply because music occurs over time, meaning its instance divided by sound placed, so the better you are at anticipating time and creatively as well there too, the bette your singing will be. I’m now just starting to work on my timing and starting to notice the effects which will peak in a couple of months in terms of gains in performance but its incredibly important when it comes to juggling instrument, vocals and lyrics simultaneously, the space between their occurrence the only room your mind has to be creative during an improvisation. This is what a more competitive part of me refers to as a creative advantage, so many numbskulls can’t reverse engineer spontaneous music production like this.

I recommend this activity for anyone that wants to do something a little less moronic than simply listening to brainwaves to improve their brain syncrhonicasiton you’ve got no idea how important timing is for the brain in so many ways this is why drummers have a general advantage but at the end of the day if you’ve just got x number of metronomes that max out your abilities you’ll improve the “timing of your brain” effectively bringing about a more intelligent you that’s naturally thus more in sync in the relationship between inner and outer world. Takes a little getting used to but make it as fun as possible for yourself, I can dance but I’m not much of a fan for the continuous exercise of it outside of performance but maybe for example that’s your thing, you get the point ; drummers can't compete with the creative possibilities here.

Edited February 5, 2021 by Origins