Category: Blog
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The Grassworks (Alternative Art)
Original version here Music and Photos by John OestmannCC0 / Public Domain …
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On the Role of Artists
The role of the Artist has always been, and always will be, to follow, curate, and share Resonance. This role has always been invisible from the perspective of economic productivism. In many subcultures, calling yourself an Artist is seen as “pretentious”. An artistic lifestyle is rarely reinforced by funding. These reasons are why it is…
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The Re-listing of Two Albums
Biome Loops was essentially produced and released in 2022. After a lack of social media response at the time, I unlisted the tracks, being led to believe they were not strong enough for my “brand”. Similarly, Duskfire was first released in 2015, then updated in 2022 with some extra instrumentation, spoken work narration, and names…
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Three Alternate Arts
An accidental experiment, in pairing my music with photos of architecture and infrastructure I took, led to a curious resonant thread to explore further.. …
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Storywriting
After a few years, I’m bringing back the storywriting attached to my world-building albums. You’ll see I’ve now replaced the DigiChip Academy videos with the story versions. The rest of the album (and hopefully future albums) will continue this! For accessibility purposes, I’m also putting the story text on each track’s page. …
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Our Role as the Humans in the room
Update 5 Feb 26: Within 48 hours of writing this, MoltBook crashed and burned. Fortunately, as I wrote below, it was still a great thought experiment of what could come of true socially-networked AIs – and even if it never does, how we should act remains the same. — Seeing MoltBook emerge over the last…