TheCapitalClinic

[First posted on Jan 30, 2008 and to be updated from time to time.]
To: Transient Phase [and your existing and growing Fans]

I first came to notice your work because of the intriguing name you have selected for yourself and your group as being in Transient Phase. I will use that notion to serve as the theme for my initial review of the work of your group. I explain below the reason for my interest in what you are doing in advancing your art because of its coincidence with my own approach to input on the fuzz platform. [Bear with me as I take a personal detour here - I think it is relevant.]

With regard to your question at my profile page, first of all, thanks for stopping by and taking note. As to where to start on my own pages, just pick any topic that seems to be of some interest to you or that you think could relate to your developing career as an artist. You will find that, over time, these writings will come back full circle to act as a framing device to help the reader find what he/she seeks. I think the same could be said of your songs. This follows from a key point that you have mentioned here [and at your site at MySpace that I checked out while doing my research] that what you do with your songs continues to be, in effect, a work-in-process rather than a product. Your fans [as well as fellow musicians] could learn a lot from the approach that you have taken. It provides insight into your work, as well as the artistic process more generally.

I myself am conducting an experiment on the fuzz platform to see if it can serve in the growth of iterative web-based music content [and everything that flows from music] and, thus, much like "transient phase" feel that synchronistic reverberations, while transient, could happen at unexpected times as one moves from one phase to another. As someone has noted, who knows, perhaps 2008 will be your year. You certainly have the talent and it only takes a spark of coalescence to bring transient phases together.

My approach to my blogs/writings is that they should be in constant movement like "transient phases" with growing links between parts so these thoughts will become increasingly inter-related. [I will blog about this separately.] I hope fans of your evolving work will appreciate how it is all "coming together" as well [and to let you know in what regard from their perspective - for me, as mentioned above, it came together as I reflected on what you have chosen to call yourself and took another listen of your pieces.]

I notice that in your own development of your songs you have taken the deliberate path to just "start somewhere" and keep developing and growing your work. Works of art may well be more a process than a product [although process does become manifest]. This is quite similar to the "process" that I am adopting at my pages and blogs [really, taking a lesson from McLuhan's insight that "the medium is the message"].

My feeling is that as more folks take this approach [both yours and mine], the better the over-all content of our work will be [in the fullness of time.] I will give your songs more attention in due course. I note someone else's observation that there are echoes of NIN in your pieces. Maybe, but more importantly, of course, is that you have your own distinct voice going through its transient phase.

[NB: a note to readers of blogs, comments, and reviews at thecapitalclinic: the text of all of my commentary at this site will be an organic "moveable feast" and, thus, evolve; and I hope yours will as well. Our contributions to the "knowledge-space" of the web [such as they are] should not be frozen in time. We should use the power of real-time, web-based music discovery to generate "wiki-[capital]." In this way, the time we spend here will be value-added building-blocks in our quest to advance capital formation, individually and collectively.]