Showing posts with label Architextual Design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Architextual Design. Show all posts

Amani Media Interview pt. 1 (Self Taught A Capella)

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A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Caroline Iman from Amani Media for an interview about identity, culture and community. The Interview is in two parts. The first part is an a capella version of one of my favorite pieces and in a way, one of my most personal. That video is shown below. The second part is more of a meditation on who I am as an artist, where I'm coming from, and what's happening in the twin cities as well as upcoming projects to look out for. I'll post that sometime this week.

Self Taught, from my latest solo effort Architextual Design, is an intimate illustration of my spirituality and my growth as a person through different stages of my life. These are true stories (albeit mythicized---yes. mythicized. hah) of my own life from childhood to now. Aquil sets it up perfectly with his own story, an aside of spiritual and intellectual development that shares the power of dreams and self directed learning.

The poetry of this piece speaks to the nature of my approach to education and spirituality; How I've spent my life learning from the world around me more so than from any educator or institution. While I believe it's important to learn from everyone and everything, I hold to the idea that true learning must be driven from the inside out, otherwise it's just socialization stacked against all kinds of other "ations". "Ations" and isms of which churn ugly products into the world around us in all the facets of learning, religion, business, culture, art, family, romance and everything in between.
I hope you diggit. Caroline did a great job producing this. Enjoy.

Light and Music.

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My gifted cinematographer friend Javier Cedillo was over last night, editing the footage with me for the music video we're working on for the song 'Frank Lloyd Wright', from my latest full length 'Architextual Design'. Between video and pizza slices, he mentioned some sweet footage he shot of blurring lights from the Ferris-wheel at this year's MN State Fair, and it sounded lovely...he mentioned that he wanted to find a random song to edit the video to for no other reason than the pure satisfaction of putting light to music. Obviously, I suggested he use my music! So he went home, found a song from 'Breaks in The Clouds' and proceeded to hook it up through the ensuing hours of night and morning.

Here's what he came up with: